Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Bob the Drag Queen - Page 2

You know, people come up to me saying, 'Watching you gave me the courage to come out to my parents,' or, 'I watched you and I decided to start doing drag,' or, people will just come up and say, 'It's you.' Like they can't even form sentences because they're crying because they're seeing someone they admired on television.

Just because you have a chosen family doesn't mean that your family threw you out.

You can celebrate pride, by lifting up what Black queer people have given us.

Honestly, drag queens are embedded within every part of queer culture.

If you need help with your mental health do not seek drag as a therapy, go to your therapist.

No one told me that if you can't sing, you probably won't be on Broadway. No one told me that!

I've never been a straight guy, but it certainly seems that being one is exhausting. Every part of a straight guy's day is somehow related to him letting people know that he's straight.

People like Donald Trump because he embodies the things that they have in themselves that they don't want to say. He's racist.

We need more Black, cisgender straight men to be willing to come out and say: 'I stand with Black trans people.'

Dreams really do come true, which sounds so cheesy but it's really true.

Well, I got into the business to make people laugh and to entertain people. I've always loved the idea that I could make someone happy and help someone really enjoy their day.

Ben Nye is bussin'. Bussin'! It is genuinely great makeup, but because people think that it's just for plays, they don't consider it.

I love how Americans are like, 'I'm just going to get up and move!' That's not how the world works. You don't get to just get up and move to Canada.

Mourning doesn't always mean zen, mourning doesn't always mean somber, mourning can just be a celebration of a life of people. It's not always about wearing black and listening to a Sarah McLachlan song.

I clean up real nice.

I have watched Peppermint for years and I know how smart and clever and funny she can be with a lip-sync.

I make fun of a lot of stuff I shouldn't make fun of.

I listen to 'This American Life,' 'Serial,' 'S-Town,' 'Feast of Fun.' I listened to 'What's the Tee?' And that has really helped me throughout my entire drag career - podcasts have been a mainstay in my life as a drag artist.

It's okay to say you're doing well in the time of tragedy.

I have to get my stuff made custom if I want my gown to touch the floor, my sleeves to touch my wrist.

I went to school for acting. I am from the theater, darling.

The movie where me and Leslie Jones play siblings will manifest at some point in time.

I like to, you know, add a little bit of my expression into my coffee - I was really doing French Vanilla for a minute, but I realized that the International Delight Caramel Macchiato: She's the girl for me.

I'm home maybe five days a month, but they're never next to each other.

I was really afraid to do one of those shows where like, gays go and make straight people's lives better and then they leave town.

The process of going on 'Drag Race' is, in my opinion, more than a fiscal investment. It's cultural. It's the 'Game of Thrones' of reality TV.

That's what Pride really is: A chance for people who are extremely queer to feel, once-a-year, extremely normal.

Tidicue is not my real last name. It's just T-D-Q, as in 'The Drag Queen.'

If you had a friend going through a lot, you wouldn't give them a hard time for going through it. You'd be like, it's ok you're going through it. So offer yourself the same grace and dignity that you'd offer to others.

Sometimes I'm happy, sometimes I'm sad.

I actually really love the taste of a very sugary coffee; I'm one of those folks who is like, 'I would like a little coffee with my creamer.'

I love keeping busy.

For me, I think it's important to spread Black queer joy and acknowledge Black queer excellence and the achievements that have been made by my people, specifically meaning Black queer people.

Listen, there is no equality without the loss of power. Someone is going to have to lose power. That is really uncomfortable for some people to actually think about, but in order for marginalized people to gain power, white, cisgender, straight, people are going to have to lose some and that's just how it is.

I have a direct hand in the queer zeitgeist, and what I'm putting out there has to be something I'm proud of.

I did not spend a lot of money. I realistically spent maybe, maybe $3,000 to go on 'Drag Race.'

When I got the phone call that I was going to be on 'Drag Race' I thought I was going to win. I thought I was going to win 'Drag Race' before I was even cast. I'm not even being funny. I'm being serious.

When I was younger I used to make wallets and purses out of newspaper and I would give them out to people.

I hate the term 'the future of drag.' It's so silly.