Quotes from Bianca Del Rio

There's always something that I will always find to do, because I just enjoy working so much. There's always something on the horizon; it really comes down to scheduling and making it all happen.

Outside of the gay world, I don't know how many people know me.

I can laugh at anything, there's humour in all of it and I think the minute you find it, the better life is.

To get the opportunities I've gotten has been insane. But also interesting. With the Starbucks commercial, I found it fascinating that once it was on the Internet, tons of people, especially gay people, were like, 'Why did they choose drag queens to showcase our community?'

In 1996 I was working on a play in New Orleans, and they needed a drag queen. I offered to play the role. That led to guest appearances at bars, which led to regular appearances at bars, which led to hosting. I eventually started working six days a week in bars before moving to N.Y.C.

I mean, there's enough people who have a job for years and are not good at it, so you should be skilled at what you do.

Well, I've realized I can function with no sleep!

Well honestly, I do stay away from being political, especially about Trump. It's just one of those things.

Things in life just happen and then you make the best of the situation and you keep moving.

We live in a world where everybody's an expert. Everybody's doing a YouTube video. Everyone's doing a tutorial of what needs to happen.

We live in a country that elected Trump. Clearly you have a sense of humor.

People feel they can just pass judgement with a tweet or with a comment and then you're supposed to change your life for them. I can't worry about what some phantom individual online has to say about me.

I was always a creative child. I also liked to paint and draw. All those years of doing those types of things, I was grateful I had those experiences because it changed my life later on. I know they weren't acceptable for what society assumed a boy should do, but I think its just your passion, it's what you're drawn to.

People have gone down this spiral of cancel culture and the idea that everything is offensive.

I'm not going to do an album. There's enough horrible drag queens singing - especially when they do that spoken word over music, 'I'm fierce! I'm fierce!'

People love sympathy, people love the underdog. For me, sympathy is not part of my drag aesthetic.

Everything is not a political statement. Everything is not about being an advocate. Sometimes it's just pure entertainment.

Basically, I want the most unnatural look possible.

No matter what I do, you're going to be upset by something.

One of my favourites on Instagram is @dublin_zoetrope. He does these musical theatre/Meryl Streep/Glenn Close memes that are truly hysterical. He'll take a regular photo of them and create an entire storyline, and it makes me cackle out loud.

Everything is offensive, so I'm enjoying the fact that I'm anti-kind. You've got to go out and just speak your mind. It needs to be heard.

Maybe I'm just nostalgic for the old days when drag was fun, not personal.

Obviously I have to use makeup remover, which I have my own makeup remover called Bianca Remover, which you can buy online.

I always say New Orleans is my heart. It's where I'm from. I go back, and I have a huge fondness for it.