I’m an optimistic realist. I kind of expect the worst but prepare for the best.
TRIXIE MATTELI’m not a competitor by nature, and I’m certainly not used to being evaluated.
More Trixie Mattel Quotes
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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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When someone says ‘Yasss queen!’ to me, I turn around and, X-Men style, run through a wall. You’ll never hear from me again.
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I’m an artist who happens to be in drag. And I think that’s why my drag is a little different.
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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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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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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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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 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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Something that I love about drag is that it’s a celebration of feminity.
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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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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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I was the poorest kid in my school, poorest kid in my town, poorest family. That stayed with me forever.
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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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I plan to publicize my breakups and profit from them like other celebrities.
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