Quotes About Drag

Drag performance is really emotional.

I always say you can be great at drag and not great at 'Drag Race,' and you can be great at 'Drag Race' and not great at drag.

There are some amazing people around who can tell stories about drag from the '60s and in New York, like the amazing club kid drag. About drag from around the world. So people should be asking questions and listening to stories.

It's important in drag to challenge things and present your own vision.

I've changed as a person because of the art of drag.

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

I've done drag many, many years, but TV is a huge, powerful thing.

I think that 'Drag Race' would certainly let a straight guy compete in drag.

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.

I think for many people, they think that being in drag means you want to be a girl. Being trans and doing drag is completely different.

When I wear makeup, it's never intense; I don't do drag. My style has always been naturalistic and then a pop of color for the eye.

Drag Race' is a competition.

Drag music is music. And it's okay for me to call it drag music because for me that has value.

I did not spend a lot of money. I realistically spent maybe, maybe $3,000 to go on 'Drag Race.'

My drag character is very dominant and domineering, and that's a quality that I am inspired by.

I think Atlanta has been a drag capital for a long time. A lot of people get there start here.

I never come out of drag to go anywhere. Everywhere I go I get all dressed up.

I've never come from a lot of money. Going to college in New York was already a financial struggle for both my family and me, so to drop out and immediately put my faith in my drag career was a huge risk to take.

Drag Race' is a huge opportunity for us to elevate drag culture, to tell our stories. It really is a career-maker.

It used to be that I'd do drag, then get out of drag, and try and be as much of a boy as possible. That didn't feel entirely authentic for me, but it felt like what I had to do at the time.

I no longer knew whether it was raindrops or my own tears that were flowing down my cheeks, and I hated to have to drag along this relic of a sniveling child.

Any moment now, that enraged prince of darkness was going to come storming out of his cabin and drag her right back into the Hades he ruled.

I think that people are taking our artistry a little more serious compared to when we started. They are of course fascinated and entertained by who we are as performers and what we do in terms of our artistry, but a lot of viewers identify with us as human beings. I think that that has helped change how people view drag.

The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts it.