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Quotes About Drag

When I was on 'Drag Race,' it felt like a serious competition going on between drag queens... and then Katya and I were also there.
~ Trixie Mattel
I'm from Erie, Pennsylvania. We're just naturally really nice, I think. In a show like 'RuPaul's Drag Race,' that isn't always good.
~ Alaska
I care about 'RuPaul's Drag Race' a lot. It's given me a career as an artist.
~ Alaska
I was really grateful that The Vixen, especially, was on season 10 because she was having conversations about race. You can't ignore it, especially in the drag community, in the 'Drag Race' world.
~ Alaska
I hate - I hate - queens coming on and doing boy drag on 'RuPaul's Drag Race' because I feel like it's not edgy; it's not different. You can see it anywhere.
~ Michelle Visage
My own experience of gender has been about a lot of fluidity. In drag, I like to combine aspects of masculinity and femininity and rewrite the rules for those.
~ Sasha Velour
After drag, I remove lashes, then remove most makeup with a Ponds Moisture Clean Exfoliating Towelette. If I don't have a moist one on the road, I will use a dried-out makeup wipe by rewetting it with water.
~ Bob the Drag Queen
I lived deep in the country in northern Wisconsin. I didn't have any neighbors or anything, so in the summers, I played guitar for hours and hours every day until I was about 18. I never thought about combining it with drag, 'cause to me, well, drag queens don't play guitar. Now I'm like, 'You idiot, that's an opportunity.'
~ Trixie Mattel
Drag was not only my introduction to womanhood, but my introduction to entertainment. It was the first time I realized that I could move a crowd.
~ Trace Lysette
All things to do with drag are inherently therapeutic because the realization of your own insanity is the beginning of sanity.
~ RuPaul
I did drag out of necessity. I had to do it... I had to create this other character because - because she's cheaper than therapy.
~ Sharon Needles
If you need help with your mental health do not seek drag as a therapy, go to your therapist.
~ Bob the Drag Queen
For someone with darker hair in the beard area that likes to sometimes sprout during a 14-hour drag day, I must have a thick, yet smooth foundation.
~ Shangela
It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.
~ Dolly Parton
I remember my first Mardi Gras. It was in the year 2001. I decided earlier that day that I was going to go in drag. It was my third time in drag.
~ Courtney Act
I'm slightly obsessed with drag queens and performers. Their quips and their one-liners, their style, their singing... I find it fascinating. And thoroughly entertaining. I'd love to play one.
~ Russell Tovey
I'm a drag queen who is thoughtful and serious about drag in addition to being funny, ambitious, and glamourous.
~ Sasha Velour
It's a sort of piss-take on culture, because a drag queen is a clown - a parody of our society. It's a sarcastic spoof on culture, which allows us to laugh at ourselves - but in a way that is inclusive of everyone.
~ RuPaul
My drag is less about looking like a woman and more about saying F.U. to the cult of systematic masculinity I was bombarded with as a little boy.
~ RuPaul
Technology fuels economy, unfortunately in today's world it's the fuel that drags economy
~ Yatin Patel
And what is an angel but a ghost in drag? STAN RICE from "Of Heaven" Body of Work (1983)
~ Anne Rice
The code and the message are not the same. And what is an angel but a ghost in drag?
~ Anne Rice
I even went to the source of all wisdom, I went and knelt at the great Queen of Drag's feet and asked her how to find love. She backhanded me in between verses of Whitney Houston and told me if she knew, why in fuck would she be here ?
~ John Goode
Raven was the first drag queen I had ever seen. Her and Detox in L.A. when I was baby. I respect Raven and Detox so much.
~ Adore Delano