Quotes from Willam Belli

I want to keep 'A Star Is Born' with the greatest reverence ever.

I am no one's role model.

Somebody once said that my look was like if Aileen Wuornos got acquitted and got a book deal. And I was like, 'That's wrong, but it's really funny.' And I've always thought that she was kind of like a gold mine for parody because there's all these things that went wrong in her life.

I was an awful child. And now I'm an awful adult.

The next RuPaul is an actor, a singer, a personality, not someone who can just get up at a bar. So I'm looking to do all those things.

I'm not a persona, and I'm not a character. I'm always the same person.

I know you are not a woman if you are voting for Mitt Romney. Because no woman in her right mind would vote for a man that opposes a woman's right to get a clean abortion or a safe abortion.

I mean, I find drama to be engaging and it makes your blood pressure go up and you keep watching, but it's not as entertaining as, say, comedy.

Every artist that I've parodied has been cool with it so far. I know one hasn't loved a version of it, but she didn't sue me over it or make me take it down. They've all been pretty cool.

Well, I wasn't a big Chick-fil-A fan, I guess, I never really knew about them because I'm from Philly and they don't have them there.

I'm aware of the other drag artists with makeup lines, and I celebrate them. The pie is big and there's room for everybody.

Listen - by the time I'm 40, I'm either gonna be super famous or dead.

I think a cream blush placed under foundation works the best. That way it shows through the skin the way your face does when it naturally blushes.

I'm not complaining at all but 'A Star Is Born' hasn't helped my career in like, opportunity terms.

When someone says, 'I recognize you,' I'll say, 'Congratulations on having a TV.' It's a little joke.

Drag was always looked at as a stepchild, and I wasn't willing to sit at the kid's table anymore so I took what's mine. You can't depend on other people to give you what you want; you have to take it.

I had a drag mom but she didn't really teach me about makeup. She just basically stuck me into gigs. And then I borrowed clothes from her and her drag to play the gigs.

My priority is my happiness.

And I've never really been a makeup pro.

I would love to be the John Belushi of drag. He was fearless.

My goal with the makeup line was that you wouldn't have to use brushes. Fingers are my favorite thing.

Vanity from Wigs By Vanity have the best wigs in the business.

People are so concerned with what they put in their bodies but so few know what they're putting on their skin. I like to use preservative-free, cruelty-free makeup that hasn't been tested on animals.

One of the most flattering things is when other people are seeing what you're doing and then replicating that kind of thing.