A Quote by Bebe Neuwirth

I've seen some very beautiful drag queens. — © Bebe Neuwirth
I've seen some very beautiful drag queens.
It's not just putting on a little bit of makeup and putting on a dress. Some drag queens duct tape their heads, some drag queens are bound and strapped and pulled in every which direction. To be in drag is no small endeavor.
Drag is pastiche and parody and satire. Drag queens are never meant to be stars. We make fun of stars. Drag queens are the people that 'point' at the star.
Drag really isn't just about exaggerating and celebrating femininity. Some drag queens want to look like monsters, some drag queens want to look like hot dogs. Really what it is is just dipping your toes in all the swimming pools of identity and allowing yourself. Because society really tries to compartmentalize humans in a certain way.
My favorite drag queens are Tammie Brown and Katya, so I like my drag queens a little left of sanity.
There's an old guard of drag, like the queens who got as big as they could possibly get before there was a TV show dedicated to drag queens.
In the gay community there are not very many Jewish drag queens. I've always found that funny because there are a lot of Jewish gay people out there, so why aren't there more Jewish drag queens?
I want to see some queer politicians, some drag queens and drag kings running for office and shifting the way that policy is made as well.
Drag queens are not pathetic creatures. Drag queens are fabulous and fun.
Some drag queens want to get into drag and be sexy and date boys... that ain't me.
The audience of 'Drag Race' and the fans of drag queens are often very surprising.
The inspiration of my drag is the history of drag, the long tradition of drag queens being at the forefront of queer activism. That informs my drag style, and in a sense, that is the direction we need to go in the future.
There's drag queens who lip sync brilliantly. There's drag queens who sing live brilliantly - none of those are me.
In 'House of Boys,' I wanted to be in drag. It was amazing to be in the middle of all these drag queens. They did my makeup. I hardly recognized myself! That was very funny.
I always say that drag queens are like an exaggeration of women, and I'm like an exaggeration of drag queens. People ask, 'Why do you do your makeup so differently?' and I always say, 'Well, in a subversive art form, ask yourself why so many drag queens do their makeup exactly the same.' If you can do anything, why does everybody do the same thing?
People pull from drag culture because drag artists are - it's the ultimate art form and it's the last underdog art form. I mean, even clowns have college, you know what I mean? Drag queens, you have to learn drag from another drag queen.
As drag queens, you constantly have to be coming up with, 'What's the thing no one's ever seen before?'
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