My look and my character come from my experiences as a child. I wasn’t allowed to have girl toys, and I grew up poor. I also had a rough relationship with my stepdad.
TRIXIE MATTELI think people are slowly realizing that don’t have to be looking in a mirror to enjoy something. And they’re realizing that watching a show with drag queens in it doesn’t make you gay any more then listening to rap makes you black.
More Trixie Mattel Quotes
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I think the perception of audiences that love folk and country is they’re perceived to be more closed-minded than they really are.
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Drag Race’ is sort of like trying to lift weights – like, 50 pounds when you should’ve been lifting 20.
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I’m an optimistic realist. I kind of expect the worst but prepare for the best.
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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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Dark comedy helped me survive.
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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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I want to look otherworldly, like I was made in a factory.
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I love my life so much. I wouldn’t change anything.
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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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Katya and I, as a yin and a yang, we pretty much represent the entire, full gambit of talent, you know? Together, there’s not really much we can’t do.
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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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Katya is literally my flesh and blood. Best friend status.
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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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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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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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