Quotes from Courtney Act

I'm definitely more attracted to men and masculinity - not just cis men but trans guys, too.

The most vocal fans online are girls, which is interesting. I didn't expect that.

I think it's so important to think about the basic human rights of others and to use our collective voices, minds and bodies to lift those people up and bring about change.

I genuinely had always thought, this sounds dumb, I always thought that 'RuPaul's Drag Race' was shot in the basement of RuPaul's house.

I've learnt I don't have to be a man and I don't have to be a woman, I can just be me.

I like being a boy, but I also really like being a girl.

Often with bigotry it's passive not active.

I'd always been a performer, growing up in a theatre school.

As a drag performer, people have traditionally put us into the category of 'pervert' or 'deviant' or things like that. So I've always been really careful not to be vulgar or grotesque with sexuality.

I'm a big fan of Stormzy.

It's important to acknowledge bisexual, pansexual.

I think that gay men in particular need to just listen to bisexual people and believe them when they say they're attracted to different genders.

Brexit happened. Donald Trump is president. If Ann Widdecombe won CBB Year of the Woman, it would be the third sign of the Apocalypse.

I live in a bubble, but there have been times when my bubble has been burst.

A good night's sleep is a super important part of feeling good.

I sort of throw away the definitions of gender - that boys are 'supposed' to wear blue and girls are 'supposed' to wear pink - and those gender roles and gender presentations. I do it on my own terms rather than based on what other people say I should do.

The thing about gay male pop stars is: they aren't supported by gay men. Gay men don't really support them until they've gone beyond the gay community and had success in the mainstream, so it's really challenging.

Being trans means different things to different people. Some people don't take hormones, some people don't have surgery, some people are just happy living in the clothes of their chosen gender.

Russia is a very different place than what we in the West are familiar with. We cannot apply our own values and judgments to the country. We need to have greater compassion and understanding and recognize that our similarities are greater than our differences.

I acknowledge that I'm really fortunate to have found pockets of people all through my life who've accepted me.

I think my first actual real job was a door-to-doors salesperson for Foxtel, a cable TV company, and that lasted a couple of weeks because I got held, like I wouldn't say at swordpoint, but I was kept in someone's house against my will and she did have a sword and was sort of brandishing it.

Pole dancing is way harder than it looks.

Changing genders is not a quick process... it takes about two hours to put on all the make-up and the lashes, and the hair, and the corsets, and the seven kinds of adhesives that work in tandem on my body to keep things up and keep things down.

You can literally tour all around Australia in two weekends.