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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My favorite drag queens are Tammie Brown and Katya, so I like my drag queens a little left of sanity.
More Trixie Mattel Quotes
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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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I’m not a competitor by nature, and I’m certainly not used to being evaluated.
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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 dress up as a woman: I dress up as a caricature of a caricature of a woman.
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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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Drag will always find a way to be weird.
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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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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’m very business-minded. I think that’s something that sets me aside from other drag queens.
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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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I’m strange! I have a weird sense of humor! I look crazy!
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Whatever is underneath all the drag, it actually doesn’t really matter. It kind of just matters, are you a great entertainer? And are you nice to work with? Are you good at your job?
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Dark comedy helped me survive.
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Trixie Mattel is a product of bad things that happened to me, and it’s how I deal with things. It’s wonderful.
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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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I’m always myself. Always. The only difference is that I come off as mean out of drag.
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