I'm a work horse.

I'm the Nancy Drew of drag!

Truly, I hope to inspire people.

There's no union for drag queens.

Every good look needs a storyline.

I've been to every Lady Gaga concert.

Live your passion, and live it to the fullest.

RuPaul's Drag Race' is the holy grail of drag.

Listen, I'm a fan, no, I'm a stan of Ariana Grande.

My first show was at Here Lounge in West Hollywood.

Keep working hard and you will have your day in the sun.

The drag scene in Miami has always been top notch to me.

I don't have a sugar daddy, I've never had a sugar daddy.

Baby, everything I have I've worked for and gotten myself.

Honey, I beat down an alien with my purse in the 'X Files.'

When things go wrong, I like to keep on working and move on.

As a drag diva auditioning in Hollywood, I've run the gamut.

Let the record show I would never turn down a role with Lady Gaga.

I am Shangela, I'm a working girl professional who owns her truth.

I grew into who I always wanted to be as a drag entertainer and performer.

I made it from Paris, Texas, to Paris on the Strip. Who else can say that?

I always say that the most resourceful people in the world are drag queens.

As a 'RuPaul's Drag Race' queen, I meet so many fans from so many walks of life.

As African American, gay drag queens, we live with more adversity and challenges.

I probably got many personalities living in my head and they all have to pay rent, OK?

Lady Gaga is a professional, truly, and someone who I aspire to be like as an entertainer.

I think everybody should have the right to do drag if they want to. Even if they look busted!

Honey, you know no matter how much time I spend, I'll never look spot on like Marilyn Monroe.

I'd love to do a project that falls between drama and comedy - a dramedy with hilarious moments.

It's great that we have so many people from so many diverse background in the 'Drag Race' family.

My dream was always to come to Los Angeles and make it as an actor. I kind of just fell into drag.

I started watching, growing, learning, and putting in extra effort to become the best queen I could.

It's not what color you are or how you fare with fans, it's who you are and what personality you have.

I'm from Paris, Texas, okay! I remember looking up and just dreaming to one day make it on an airplane.

On-stage I like to give people something that they will remember, something different but something electric.

It's harder to compete against queens you know, because you have that personal relationship with them already.

Becoming a drag entertainer and really embracing that helped me to embrace who I was as a gay person even more.

It's always been my dream, it's always been my vision to work as an actor in Hollywood, in drag and out of drag.

It's a performer's worst nightmare: to hurt yourself on stage and not be able to remove yourself from the stage.

The way I've always dealt with disappointment or challenges in my life is to find the bright spot and focus on it.

You walk in and he's an A-list actor, so you're like, 'Oh my gosh it's Bradley Cooper! Let me make sure my wig's on right!'

I'm from a small country town and to now be moving around with some of the largest names in Hollywood is a dream come true.

I know what it feels like to be on the outside, a place that you don't belong, feeling like you're the only one of your kind.

Michelle Obama, one of my inspirations, said 'when they go low, we go high,' and it was a thing that I really carried with me.

Drag Race' is a lot like 'Game of Thrones.' There's a lot of different alliances, queens fight for the crown, they take the throne.

If you can find your passion in life, hold on to that. Go for it and don't be afraid to put in the work: things will work out for you.

I grew up as a little gay boy in Paris, Texas, which was a very conservative community and I had a strong religious background as well.

Bradley Cooper was amazing as a director. Like you hope the director is nice, you hope they are cool, and he was at the top of the list.

Any queen who's ever worked in a drag bar, or even been in a drag dressing room, knows that underlying all of that is a sense of family.

When I started in 'Drag Race,' I didn't know anything about drag - my makeup was a mess, my hair was a mess, but I love what I was doing.

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