RuPaul Quotes

You can't have a discussion about bullying unless you also have a discussion against our culture's obsession with masculinity.

As a kid, I was searching for my tribe of other people who saw through the matrix. Even as a kid I could never buy into the status quo. I just thought it was a joke; I couldn't believe other people weren't laughing at it.

And If I fly or if I fall, at least I can say I gave it all.

Don't take life too seriously and have fun. Don't waste your time on things that your ego will try and convince you are important.

I'm a regular Joe...I just have the unique ability to accessorize.

Everyone gets drunk and makes out with the wrong guy sometimes.

Throw a little shade when you need to.

With hair, heels, and attitude, honey, I am through the roof.

The truth is - most things are probably gonna fail. But my failures bring me to the next thing. So in that regard, nothing's a failure, it's a continuation.

As gay people, we always think outside of the box. The irreverent is always important to a drag queen and anyone else who lives outside the box. And this is why drag's important: remember to not take life seriously. It's always important to see the laughter in the illusion that we pretend is real.

I love David Bowie and Cher and Diana Ross. I wanted to follow in their footsteps. So I set out to do that in a rock-'n'-roll band in Atlanta, Georgia. That led me to nightclubs and to the sort of Andy Warhol experience of creating a personality.

I love to laugh, I love color, I love texture, and I love creativity, so I was always inspired by people who incorporate those things in their work.

A glamazon is someone who's taken a love of beauty and life and listen, depending on the weather or how my blood sugar at any time, I can be more outspoken than other times, but it's a conscious decision to live life with a fierce determination.

American culture is one that is so easily in denial. We have such a strange dichotomy, so hypocritical. The truth can be blaring in neon letters but our culture will find a reason not to hear what the truth is.

When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent.

My attitude toward friendship has remained the same. I will support and encourage you with all the love in my heart, but if it's not reciprocal, I gotta go. If your friends are bitter about your success to the extent that they act out, don't expect them to change. Move on.

Spirituality has nothing to do with church, and everything to do with hair.

The truth of who we are has nothing to do with religion or the type of car that we drive or the color of our skin. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. And the human experience part is very temporary. So, things like the bar, love, magic, dancing, and colors are there to remind us to not take all of this stuff so seriously.

SOmetimes life isn't fair, and straight people are straight up crazy.

Some girls talk to the boys in the chat room, my girls talk to the boys in the backroom.

The public wants a great product, but they also want more layers of value. So it's lifestyle, it's takeaway, it's entertainment. It's all of those things and social media facilitates a big chunk of that, because they want to touch and feel you, they want to talk to someone about it, they want to join a community of other people who dance to the beat of a different drummer.

my goal is to always come from a place of love ...but sometimes you just have to break it down for a motherfucker

You are not your body. You are actually an extension of the power that created the whole universe.

No one wants a cherry pie that bites back.

So many times, people are afraid to start something because of fear of failing. But it can be fabulous - because it leads you to the next thing.

I'm always talking about loving yourself and expressing yourself and learning how to love yourself. I'm still the same.

My life is so much better, it's so much more enriched if I make the effort, if I actually celebrate with gladitude the fact that I get to be on this gorgeous planet.

Some people are beyond help, just accept that.

Be yourself. Know your proportions. And have a good tailor.

When I was a kid in San Diego, I would read fashion magazines and Interview magazine, and all of that really inspired me to create a persona. So by the time I moved to New York, in the early '80s, I'd learned how to create a persona, and I knew what my persona would be.

The world we live in is made up of polar opposites, black/white, male/female, night/day, and a human being who possesses both masculine and feminine – vulnerability and strength – is intriguing to us, whether they be a singer or actor or dancer, intrigues us, because THAT Is who we really are.

Don't be afraid to use all the colors in the crayon box.

What other people think of me is not my business. What I do is what I do. How people see me doesn’t change what I decide to do.

Sacrifices have to be made if you want to make a dent in the world, and that's what I started out to do - to make a dent in pop culture.

Walking with your chest out and your head held high says you have earned the right to stomp and pummel this particular piece of real estate.

Most women, when they ask me for beauty tips aren't really prepared for my answer, which is, there is no magic beauty wand that can transform you and make you beautiful. It takes practice and what you see on Rupaul's Drag Race is years and years of practice.

Own who you are and celebrate it.

I chose to devote the lion's share of my time to my personal growth and to my family. I reconnected with the part of me that I had left behind.

The main thing that motivates me is laughter, and colors, and music, and dancing! And I do all of the above every day.

I love Superman. Because he represents the hero with 1,000 faces. And the potential that lies in every human on this planet.

I think in times of fear and hysteria in a culture, gender experimentation as it pertains to men has to go underground because it scares people too much and it's too much for people to take on. Especially when a culture is held hostage by fear and hysteria and fundamentalism.

You have to use what you have to get what you want.

You're born naked, and the rest is drag! EVERYBODY is in drag. Whether you're a man or a woman. It just depends on how extreme you wanna go.

I'm always game for everything. What people don't understand is that the networks are who you have to get to take a chance on you. I wanna do it all. The trick is convincing a network to do it with you.

Loving yourself—it really takes a daily practice.

What other people think of me is not my business. What I do is what I do. How people see me doesn't change what I decide to do. I don't choose projects so people don't see me as one thing or another. I choose projects that excite me. I think the problem is that people refuse to understand what drag is outside of their own belief system.

We're born naked, and the rest is drag.

It's important to use a stage name so that your real name doesn't appear on public records.