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.
TRIXIE MATTELI don’t think gay guys are in touch with how many fabulous divas we have that actually play their own instruments and write their own music, too.
More Trixie Mattel Quotes
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I’m not good at anything! I can do, like, two voices.
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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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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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Katya is literally my flesh and blood. Best friend status.
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Drag will always find a way to be weird.
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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 love John Denver. Townes Van Zandt is one of my all-time favorites.
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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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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’m not a competitor by nature, and I’m certainly not used to being evaluated.
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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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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 want to look otherworldly, like I was made in a factory.
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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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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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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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Something that I love about drag is that it’s a celebration of feminity.
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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.
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Some of my favorite drag queens are women.
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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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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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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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I 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.
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I 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.
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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 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.
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