Drag Race’ doesn’t claim to represent drag as a whole. ‘Drag Race’ is a reality show. If you see real drag shows, we just do drag and respect each other’s art and who your real identity is – name, gender, hair color, anything.
TRIXIE MATTELI’m not good at anything! I can do, like, two voices.
More Trixie Mattel Quotes
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To me, drag is about doing whatever you want, and nobody says anything. And ‘Drag Race’ is about doing what you’re told and having it evaluated. I hate being judged.
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The best way to create emotional or spiritual distance between me and another person is for them to come up to me and go, ‘yaassssss.’
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I didn’t start drag because I thought it would be a ticket to anything. I did it for my own narcissistic fulfillment. When I started selling records, going on tour, doing TV. I never expected any of it.
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Something that I love about drag is that it’s a celebration of feminity.
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If I have a show at night, I like to spend the whole day alone in silence. I know that might be crazy.
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I love that drag is a way for people to vacation in the gay nightlife, but… it’s quite a different experience to perform for a gay audience than a straight audience.
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Drag Race’ is sort of like trying to lift weights – like, 50 pounds when you should’ve been lifting 20.
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I love John Denver. Townes Van Zandt is one of my all-time favorites.
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I don’t dress up as a woman: I dress up as a caricature of a caricature of a woman.
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I didn’t start drag because I thought it would be a ticket to anything. I did it for my own narcissistic fulfillment. When I started selling records, going on tour, doing TV. I never expected any of it.
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I think the perception of audiences that love folk and country is they’re perceived to be more closed-minded than they really are.
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As drag queens and as comic people, we listen to our own artistic compass all the time.
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People on a daily basis walk up to me, panic, and tell me something extremely graphic and violent about their life.
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I hate drag. It’s extremely uncomfortable. It’s awful. I’m in a full corset and pads and giant wigs.
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Most drag queens, they put on music like it’s a costume. It’s not in their bones. It’s not in their background.
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