Drag Race’ is sort of like trying to lift weights – like, 50 pounds when you should’ve been lifting 20.
TRIXIE MATTELTrixie Mattel is a product of bad things that happened to me, and it’s how I deal with things. It’s wonderful.
More Trixie Mattel Quotes
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Some of my favorite drag queens are women.
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I’m not good at anything! I can do, like, two voices.
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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 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 don’t really like club music or hip hop or electronic music at all. I’m like an old person.
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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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Drag will always find a way to be weird.
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I’m very proud of my career. A lot of people get their career from the judges of ‘Drag Race’ saying they’re great. I had to go and build that reputation from the ground up.
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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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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.
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Mental health and sobriety is not a straight line, and ‘Drag Race’ is a family, and we support our family members through anything.
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I want to look otherworldly, like I was made in a factory.
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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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My grandpa was a country singer, and I started learning guitar from him, just at the kitchen table when I was younger, and I got really into it.
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Out of drag, I’m a white guy with a guitar, which isn’t special. There are a million white guys with guitars. But being a drag queen with a guitar is a lot more commanding.
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