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.
TRIXIE MATTELOne of my trophies of ‘Drag Race’ is getting to meet Katya.
More Trixie Mattel Quotes
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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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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 hate drag. It’s extremely uncomfortable. It’s awful. I’m in a full corset and pads and giant wigs.
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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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I’m strange! I have a weird sense of humor! I look crazy!
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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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I’m always myself. Always. The only difference is that I come off as mean out of drag.
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I don’t really like club music or hip hop or electronic music at all. I’m like an old person.
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I don’t think gay guys are in touch with how many fabulous divas we have that actually play their own instruments and write their own music, too.
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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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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’m very business-minded. I think that’s something that sets me aside from other drag queens.
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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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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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