Top 223 Quotes & Sayings by RuPaul - Page 4

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Don't take life too seriously.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Give a drag queen a fish and you feed her for a day; show her how to be fishy and you feed her for a lifetime.

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.

No one wants a cherry pie that bites back.

Definition of lecture: An art of transmitting Information from the notes of the lecturer to the notes of students without passing through the minds of either. Definition of conference: The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present Definition of office: A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life. "What people say about me behind my back is none of my business."

I can always sniff out when someone is being what they think I want them to be, which is the complete opposite. I really want a queen to be herself.

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.

Negativity is basically laziness.

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

There's really no way to fast-track someone because the rate that their brain is able to interpret the information they're getting is on pace with life.

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.

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

We are born nude and everything after that is drag.

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

Our bodies are just temporary vessels for our souls, which will go on forever. You really are an extension of the power that created the whole universe, no matter what drags you have on.

When I think about my Glamazon, would that character get down if someone said her thighs were heavy? No, she knows what other people think is none of her damn business.

The overall commentary on what I'm doing is saying, 'Hey look! I get to create whatever persona I want to, and it's all up to me. And the truth is, we are all - basically the universe - pretending to be humans for a brief moment of time. With a little self-induced amnesia.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

I feel like a mother-queen-vampire-Dracula because I want to make more girls so I can have more friends and more girls to play with, you know? For a long time, it was really just me. There were other girls in the niche underground, but not on a world level.

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

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.

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.

When I was about 13, 14 - 13, I would carry a magic marker with me everywhere I went so I could write the word "Bowie" on everything that wasn't mine.

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