Quotes About Self-expression

Acting forces me to socialise, which is good for me, I think.

I never tried forcing anyone to understand me. Everybody has their own opinion. But I will always be happy the way I am.

I am a Ford, not a Lincoln.

I feel like I have a responsibility to be true to who I am as an artist, first and foremost.

First and foremost, I just have to be myself.

Makeup is scary. When I do it myself, it's just mascara, and sometimes I forget even to do that.

When you work at a magazine, you have to tell the truth. When you're not working in that format, it's fun to see where your mind takes you when the dictates have nothing to do with anyone but yourself.

My goal is to be able to fill out one of those forms that asks 'Who are you?' and be able to just put 'Human being,' you know?

I have this brand, I have my name. And I'm going to do what I want because people will buy it. People will enjoy it. So don't tell me I have to follow this formula and sit inside the box. Because I don't.

As long as I continue to put forth who I am and what I believe, than I think it all balances out.

It's in my nature to want every image of me to be authentic but at the end of the day as a model, I don't always get control over how someone decides to put forth my picture.

I'm really fortunate because, in my career, I haven't had to deal with anybody trying to make me something I'm not.

Fortunately, I've never had a job.

I never pay a fortune for clothes.

My one big rule for the over-40s is don't try to dress like an 18-year-old. It's possible to be 'on-trend' when you're older - you just have to look for the right stuff. You don't have to spend a fortune, either.

People have certain ideas of what they think you should be, and I have fought that categorisation my whole life.

When I'm working I wear so much makeup, and when I'm out with my friends I wear makeup, so sometimes at school I'm just like, 'Today is not much of a makeup day - foundation, chapstick - done.'

I've only dressed in drag three or four times.

Drag breaks the fourth wall, which is why it's never been quite accepted, because nobody wants to be told that they are really a caricature of themself and to not take yourself too seriously.

I came to 'RuPaul's Drag Race' late: I didn't get into the show until its fourth or fifth season.

Make-up is such a huge fragment of my career and image.

In America it's good to show people you are fine, you're healthy, you're sporty, you're happy to do things, to live. And in France it's more like you don't have to show you have success.

I think I have femininity, I have masculinity, but I get to use all of Jeffrey, and that's very powerful. And this is what I always thought when I went down in my little basement in San Francisco, where I grew up, and daydreamed about being an actor: It felt like this. This is what it felt like.

I am not a fashion freak!