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Drag Race’ is sort of like trying to lift weights – like, 50 pounds when you should’ve been lifting 20.

Trixie Mattel

Any time there is an economic downturn or political strife, lipstick sales skyrocket. If you have a hard day, it’s this $14 thing that lifts your day. I think drag has that same lipstick effect.
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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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My favorite drag queens are Tammie Brown and Katya, so I like my drag queens a little left of sanity.
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Drag Favorite Myself Sanity
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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If I have a show at night, I like to spend the whole day alone in silence. I know that might be crazy.
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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 was the poorest kid in my school, poorest kid in my town, poorest family. That stayed with me forever.
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I want to look otherworldly, like I was made in a factory.
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Drag will always find a way to be weird.
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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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As drag queens and as comic people, we listen to our own artistic compass all the time.
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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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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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For 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.
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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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I love John Denver. Townes Van Zandt is one of my all-time favorites.
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