I always tell my mom that if she would have just bought me a Barbie when I was little, I would have gone into real estate.
TRIXIE MATTELFor years, ‘Drag Race’ was gay people’s best kept secret. When I started doing drag, people didn’t know anything about it. Look at it now: it’s like it’s gone from black and white to IMAX.
More Trixie Mattel Quotes
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Some of my favorite drag queens are women.
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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’m not good at anything! I can do, like, two voices.
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I remember being obsessed with Christina Aguilera’s ‘Stripped.’ That was her peak, and she is such an amazing singer. Plus, I was a little gay boy, and the music video for ‘Beautiful’ existed, so obviously I was affected.
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I never check my bank account. I know that sounds crazy. But I don’t know how much is in there. I never know how much is in there. I have an idea – I have a bottom line – but I never look because I always make believe there’s never anything in there.
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When I was on ‘Drag Race,’ it felt like a serious competition going on between drag queens and then Katya and I were also there.
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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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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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One of my trophies of ‘Drag Race’ is getting to meet Katya.
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Something that I love about drag is that it’s a celebration of feminity.
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Something ‘Drag Race’ is really good at is portraying us as artists but also human beings. And normal human beings don’t know everything. They don’t have all the answers.
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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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Drag will always find a way to be weird.
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I plan to publicize my breakups and profit from them like other celebrities.
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I’m not a competitor by nature, and I’m certainly not used to being evaluated.
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