I’m an artist who happens to be in drag. And I think that’s why my drag is a little different.
TRIXIE MATTELI love that drag is a way for people to vacation in the gay nightlife, but… it’s quite a different experience to perform for a gay audience than a straight audience.
More Trixie Mattel Quotes
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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 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’m not a competitor by nature, and I’m certainly not used to being evaluated.
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Some people say that ‘Drag Race’ is about glory and immortalizing yourself in the Hall of Fame. For me, it’s about shaking RuPaul down for her money.
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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’m an optimistic realist. I kind of expect the worst but prepare for the best.
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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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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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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’m always myself. Always. The only difference is that I come off as mean out of drag.
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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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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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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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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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I don’t dress up as a woman: I dress up as a caricature of a caricature of a woman.
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One of my trophies of ‘Drag Race’ is getting to meet Katya.
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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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I never check my bank account. I know that sounds crazy. But I don’t know how much is in there. I never know how much is in there. I have an idea – I have a bottom line – but I never look because I always make believe there’s never anything in there.
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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 remember being obsessed with Christina Aguilera’s ‘Stripped.’ That was her peak, and she is such an amazing singer. Plus, I was a little gay boy, and the music video for ‘Beautiful’ existed, so obviously I was affected.
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I think being young and, like, 14, 15, you feel like a weirdo, and playing guitar with my grandpa in my grandma’s kitchen is probably my fondest memories I’ll ever have.
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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 was the poorest kid in my school, poorest kid in my town, poorest family. That stayed with me forever.
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I’m like the Justin Bieber of the drag world.
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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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