Top 223 Quotes & Sayings by RuPaul
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American entertainer RuPaul.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Hollywood is an idea. It's not a real place.
Throughout my life, I have always believed in love; I've always put my heart in love. But I've seen fear take people so often. It's very scary.
The secret of success in every field is redefining what success means to you. It can't be your parent's definition, the media's definition, or your neighbor's definition. Otherwise, success will never satisfy you.
I don't think drag will ever be mainstream because it's counter to what the mainstream directive is, which is picking an identity and sticking with it for the rest of your life.
If you look at their voting habits and their eating habits, you realize people are stupid.
'The Wizard of Oz' is my favourite. It explains what life on this planet is about. Although Dorothy reaches Oz, she finds she had what she needed to go back to Kansas all along, but the Good Witch tells her that she had to learn it for herself. All of the answers to the meaning of life are there.
There are so many sensitive souls; they don't know what to do with their feelings.
I always did what I thought was interesting. I always just did what caught my fantasy. Looking like a woman, that was never the criteria for me. It was always to do drag. And drag is not gender-specific. Drag is just drag. It's exaggeration.
I remember being 14 years old, making a pact with myself. I would never join into the matrix, never join into the status quo, and I would always fight it. It always felt like I was on an operating table and the anesthesia never worked.
We are all doing drag. Every single person on this planet is doing it.
Everybody is in drag.
It's important to find your tribe.
Drag is there to remind culture not to take itself too seriously. All of this is illusion.
I go to the gym at five in the morning and then go do a hike.
I have always worked and did my work on the fringe, where I have feel very comfortable.
It's true in everything, not just in drag: To be a success, you have to understand the landscape. You have to know thyself, and you have to know your history so that you can draw from people who have figured out the equation you are faced with. It's not rocket science.
If you've worked in a factory, and you haven't learned how to do something else, you're obsolete. That's just nature.
A regular old drag queen is usually your science teacher who's actually wearing women's panties underneath his slacks. A drag-queen superstar is someone who actually works in clubs and makes a living doing it more than one night a year, or even one night in six months.
There's not another lip-synch song on the planet, in the history of lip-synching songs, that has been lip-synched more than 'I Will Survive.'
Drag is involved with changing identities and not taking identities too seriously at all. That's why drag is such a hard sell to a network - or anyone, really - because it's up against the ego.
The only person I look up to - and not just in show business but also in the world - is a little lady named Judge Judy! Honestly.
This is an important thing: People who live in the mainstream and the status quo think that everyone else is there to serve them.
Never forget that the most political thing you can ever do is follow your heart.
Life's journey - it unfolds for you as you are ready for it.
I dance to the beat of a different drummer.
It's important to remember that you're born naked, and the rest is drag.
There are only two types of people in the world. There are the people who understand that this is a matrix, and then there are the people who buy it lock, stock and barrel.
We humans are still a very primitive culture, and it's one of the traps we've fallen into over the course of our lives - to forget our history. That's why George Orwell's 'Animal Farm' is so profound. It chronicles our short memory.
I'm not religious, but I do pray. It's 60 seconds of meditation, visualizing myself, looking at myself, and being conscious of my own consciousness. That will align me for the rest of the day.
If you're upset by something I said, you have bigger problems than you think.
I don't think there is a life in the mundane 9-to-5 hypocrisy. That's not living.
I started out in this business in rock and roll bands and stumbled into drag. Drag just happened to be my vehicle for my creativity. So, you know, it's afforded me the opportunity to create new shows, to make music.
We encrypt 'Drag Race' with the secret language that kept gay people linked for many years before the '80s.
I've always been interested in what else is here, what lies beneath.
Honestly, it's important to not take this whole process of life on this planet too seriously. And you need games to remind you that every aspect of your experience on this planet is a game. And you have to be a good sport. You have to strategize, and you have to have fun.
Life is not to be taken seriously.
I haven't found a heel that's been too high for me yet.
My number one tip for all people, not just drag queens, is false eyelashes, which make every look go from daytime to glamazon!
I think our culture is moving forward - slowly. And also, as we move forward, we're witnessing some of the old stalwarts rejecting that forward motion.
I enjoy being creative.
Once you clear out from your consciousness things that no longer matter, you're able to make room for other things.
Unfortunately, in our culture, one person can write a letter to the network, and they shut something down. It's unfortunate.
I've been very blessed, and that has not escaped me.
I think this life is hard without assistance from others.
Wyoming - God bless you in Wyoming - it's very boring, and it's the most isolated place on Earth.
If you grow up in show business, you look beyond the looking glass. So, all of the surface facades get broken.
Doing drag in a male-dominant culture is an act of treason. It's the most punk-rock thing you can do.
It's a neutralizing mantra to say to everybody, 'I come in peace.' I come in peace. That's why it's important.
I love the creativity and the social and political aspects of drag.
Don't believe the hype; don't believe what it tells you on your driver's license. You are an extension of the power that created this whole universe.
I feel like I've won every year the show has been picked up by Logo because, really, nothing beats a paycheck.
La Flavour's 'Mandolay' is a disco classic - I dare you to sit still while listening to it.
In our subconscious, we all know we're playing roles.
I always bring an orange scarf, not just so I can wear it or tuck it into my pocket, but also so I can throw it over a lamp in the hotel room. Orange is my favourite colour, and it gives a lovely, warm ambience.
It's hard to get intimate with an audience.
The whole point is to live life and be - to use all the colors in the crayon box.
For my tribe, the people I found years ago, we've found sanctuary in the irreverent, in the off-center, in the quirky... And that's how we stay entertained, and that's how we stay engaged in what would otherwise seem to be a really cruel world. A really harsh world.
I try to do three active things a day because I have to fit into costumes that are very tight.
Anna Wintour is a very smart woman. She's a Scorpio, like me.
From childhood, we're trained to be a certain way, to behave a certain way - so that the power base can control us, really. And punk and drag are completely outside of that.
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