Quotes About Acceptance

I don't want people to think you have to look a certain way or be a certain mold to be able to be a quarterback.

I'm just a quarterback. I'm just who I am.

I'm very humble that people are accepting me, and they are proud that I'm their quarterback.

If you'd have asked me five or six years ago when I first got the name, I'd have thought this is wild, a quarterback named Duck, but now it's cool.

I am no longer a complete pariah in some academic quarters.

Yes, I am transgendered but I also am a cross-dresser - I dress as a woman. It's not that I just want to be seen as a female in our society, I'm also a drag queen and a performer - there are many levels there.

Growing up, I loved Boy George, George Michael, Annie Lennox, Queen, Freddie Mercury, Celine Dion, Barbra Streisand and Diana Ross.

Well... I don't think everyone can actually be a drag queen, but I think everyone should investigate drag.

Will isn't a screaming queen - that's Jack's part. They needed someone to play the part for America. It's just not the same as Britain. To have a gay character as a lead is risky.

I was afraid my family would lock me up and give me electroshock. I was a screaming queen.

I was not a queen bee, ever.

Back in high school, I didn't ever see a Muslim homecoming king or queen - there was never even anyone nominated. It just seemed for a lot of those events, Muslim kids were not being included, and it was probably our fault too - no one was going for it, but no one was trying to push us to do it, you know?

I am not a beauty queen, and I was not the popular girl in high school.

Someone said to me a long time ago, 'You're a drag queen,' and at the time I was a little like... hello? But then I realized over the years that I actually am.

The average person assumes that you're a drag queen so you're a nelly and you want to be a girl, which is not the case, and I think Drag Race has changed that for us.

Most people think they don't have anything to relate to a drag queen, but shockingly there's a lot we can talk about.

If one drag queen penetrates the mainstream and opens up a new avenue for us to take with our careers, that means all of us can potentially do that.

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.'

My dad's name is 'The Drag Queen.'

I always say that the most resourceful people in the world are drag queens.

I'm the mess of drag queens.

There are a lot of kids out there that look at me as their mother, and I have my two biological children, and there are so many queens that look at me as an aunt or some sort of confidante, and I can absorb it really well.

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

I didn't invent the bearded lady. It's been around for ages, and there are so many bearded drag queens out there - but they're not in the mainstream as I am.