That’s something I like about drag – I get to do everything. Collaborative arts are hard for me because I don’t really like to relinquish control.
TRIXIE MATTELThat’s something I like about drag – I get to do everything. Collaborative arts are hard for me because I don’t really like to relinquish control.
More Trixie Mattel Quotes
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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 have definitely had guys walk up to me, put their arm around me, and when they walk away, my shoulder smells like taco meat.
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I want to look otherworldly, like I was made in a factory.
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I love John Denver. Townes Van Zandt is one of my all-time favorites.
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I’m strange! I have a weird sense of humor! I look crazy!
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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.
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I guess I just believe in Trixie Mattel, and I believe in the work. I don’t think I’m better than anybody else, but I really think that I’m hilarious and beautiful.
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I live in reality, and I know at any moment I could stop getting the phone calls and nobody wants to hear me sing or tell jokes anymore.
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Katya and I, as a yin and a yang, we pretty much represent the entire, full gambit of talent, you know? Together, there’s not really much we can’t do.
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When I’m in drag, I don’t always want to be spoken to, but I love being looked at. Nobody puts that much work into how they look to be ignored.
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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 remember seeing RuPaul in ‘The Brady Bunch Movie,’ when she says to Jan, ‘Girl, you better work.’ And I froze it in my mind forever.
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My look and my character come from my experiences as a child. I wasn’t allowed to have girl toys, and I grew up poor. I also had a rough relationship with my stepdad.
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My favorite drag queens are Tammie Brown and Katya, so I like my drag queens a little left of sanity.
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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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