RuPaul Quotes

The world is your catwalk, so just remember this when you're out there.

There's not a long career span because you can't really make money doing drag for very long the way the system was set up for so many years.

I change clothes at least three times a day. It's the only way I can justify all the shopping I do. Prada to the grocery store? Yes! Gucci to the dry cleaner's? Why not? Dolce & Gabbana to the corner deli? I insist!

Love yourself. KNOW thyself. And be mindful of your thoughts.

Sharon Needles. Did I meet you at the free clinic?

It's been important to cultures throughout history with the court jester and the witch doctor and the shaman - all preach the same thing.

Don't be jealous of my boogie.

Through my observations, it became clear that most of society's rules and customs are rooted in fear and superstition!

We as gay people get to choose our family and the people we're around. I am your family. We are a family here.

When there are no words, let your eyes do the talking.

What makes a gay icon is someone who possesses both masculine and feminine qualities simultaneously.

It's very easy for me to take on other people's energy, so my personal mantra is " Love yourself, love yourself, love yourself. "

When you see magazine articles and you go, 'Oh my God, that one looks so old or look how fat someone is' it has very little to do with the person in question and more to do with the person who's asking the question. People don't want to believe their own mortality.

Anybody who can step out of the house with a pair of heels and some lipstick on their lips is my hero.

We are all illusionists and that's why we are attracted to drag queens. This whole world is an illusion. It's not real.

To this day it cracks me up to think that my debut on national British television as a reporter ends with me turning a trick.

My music is a reflection of what I really love to listen to, pop, dance, mid tempo dance and ballads.

Drag threatens people because it exposes and mocks identity. Because most people believe that they are what it says they are on their driver's license. But the truth is we are all born naked, and the rest is drag.

Actually, it does start with you - if you want to change the world, change yourself.

Negativity is basically laziness. It takes a lot of hard work to remain positive, but positivity always pays off.

All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money.

Excuses are for losers, and winning is for winners, like you!

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.

When someone wrongs you, walk away from them and don't ever look back.

Our ego never wants to die and it will do anything to prolong its life. But the truth is, we are both spirit and ego and you have to have a balance between the two. Your spirit never dies, but the ego is all about beginnings and ends.

We all came into this world naked. The rest is all drag.

Life is about using the whole box of crayons.

Style is a celebratory expression of your life force. You must approach it with a sense of joie de vivre.

The greatest truths in life are the ones your fellow queens are willing to tell you.

The mantle of glamour has been taken from the women and given to the men. The women toil in their shadows, plain and ordinary-looking. So that transition has left a void. It is a void for drop-dead, impossible, over-the-top glamour. Supermodels fill that void. The only thing they have to do is work the runway, sweetie, and refuse to get out of bed for less than ten thousand dollars.

It's all about knowing that everybody that you see, everybody that you sit across from is a different aspect of yourself. So once you can accept yourself on every level, that's when everything opens up, that's when the party really begins.

Ego loves identity. Drag mocks identity. Ego hates drag

I'd like to go for people I admire - I always gravitate towards the people I idolized when I was a teenager: Cher, Diana Ross, and David Bowie.

Whatever you proclaim as your identity here in the material realm is also your drag. You are not your religion. You are not your skin color. You are not your gender, your politics, your career, or your marital status. You are none of the superficial things that this world deems important. The real you is the energy force that created the entire universe!

When you're face to face with someone less worthy, tell them.

Even when I was down, I treated myself as a star and eventually the world would catch up.

It's important to make a great first impression, so make sure to hold on to your damn weave.

It's important to stay in this moment right here, the now. This moment is the most important moment of your life.

Very little is off -limits, but draw the line at being unkind.

We are born nude and everything after that is drag.

Negativity is basically laziness.

I always felt like an outer-space alien. I was always breaking the fourth wall.

My motivation comes from a love of being creative. I'm in love with music and colour and laughter and dancing and all things that are beautiful.

Drag queens always love a portmanteau of combining words and making something new, because this whole world is shilarious. And so you have to contain yourself with words. Shilarious is just something that is a really hooty kiki funny item.

I'm motivated by the laughter, honestly. It's really not about the money or being more famous. I really love creativity.

If you can't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?

Haters gonna hate, but here are the only words you need for them. Sashay, away.

If you have goals and the stick-with-it-ness to make things happen, people will feel threatened by you, especially if your goals don’t include them. They believe that if you take a piece of pie, then that leaves less pie for them. Seeing you follow your dreams leaves them realizing that they’re not following theirs. In truth, there is unlimited pie for everyone!