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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I was the poorest kid in my school, poorest kid in my town, poorest family. That stayed with me forever.
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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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Some of my favorite drag queens are women.
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Katya is literally my flesh and blood. Best friend status.
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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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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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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.
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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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In the real world, people go against my beliefs all the time, and I don’t make it my place to – like, I’m not super confrontational.
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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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I don’t expect a lot of people who love drag to also be like, ‘I love ‘Drag Race,’ and then I got to hear my Chris Stapleton album.’ Not necessarily an obvious crossover.
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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’ve always said drag queens are like Swiss Army knives. Most come from having to take $50-a-show pay and doing their own costume, wig, music and jokes.
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Bad things can happen to you, but it doesn’t mean you have to have regrets. It’s all about what you do with it.
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