Quotes About Authenticity

Let's be real, I'm basically a drag queen.

My private life has never been a secret. I've never been a closet queen.

For all those people who always thought I was nothing more than a drag queen, wait until they see what I agreed to look like in 'Hairspray.'

Everything about my brand is where I am from like the title of my album 'Queen of Da Souf'... I always credit my city because that is my brand.

As drag queens and as comic people, we listen to our own artistic compass all the time.

Most drag queens, they put on music like it's a costume. It's not in their bones. It's not in their background.

I don't believe people playing rock n' roll should have crowns. We're not kings and queens. Anybody can play it.

My favorite drag queens are Tammie Brown and Katya, so I like my drag queens a little left of sanity.

Christine and the Queens is about not being safe.

I would say I have more in common with drag queens than I do with most people.

Where I come from, camp was kind of looked down upon because the drag queens that I grew up with took themselves so seriously.

Some drag queens want to get into drag and be sexy and date boys... that ain't me.

For myself, Queer Eye feeds more to my heart and my soul than as a platform for a career.

I think the earnestness of what we're saying and what other bands like us are totally saying - or other queer bands - is 'We exist.'

I wouldn't want to lose out on my macho action movie just because I told people I was queer.

I knew that I wanted to primarily play queer characters.

I always was missing that female brown queer perspective, and I think in 'Vida' we have that. A lot of things I wanted to touch on and deal with, I get to do here.

Please don't compare the nature and authenticity of 'Queer Eye' to 'The Bachelor.'

My brownness is something that I can't hide. There are some straight-acting or straight-passing queer people out there, but I'm not one of them. This is something I would rather not have to hide.

A lot of people know me from my character that I play on 'Superstore,' Mateo, and I'm not interested in playing straight roles. I'm all about playing queer roles.

On 'Queer Eye,' I really get to see the way someone lives. They know the Fab Five are coming, but they don't know when or how, so our producers make sure they don't clean up so that we can experience exactly how they normally live.

I was in the closet up until I moved to the U.S. But I was always one of those kids who couldn't really hide being gay. Some queer kids are just more straight-passing than others. I was not one of those kids.

The fact that I get to play a queer Filipino on television and another queer character in 'Crazy Rich Asians' is huge. I never thought I'd have a career being myself. I always thought that being an actor in Hollywood meant that I would have to put that side of me on the back burner.

With Quentin Tarantino, he makes movies imagining himself as the audience. To be specific and true to what he wants resonates to people who like his movies.