When I’m in drag, I don’t always want to be spoken to, but I love being looked at. Nobody puts that much work into how they look to be ignored.
TRIXIE MATTELI guess I just believe in Trixie Mattel, and I believe in the work. I don’t think I’m better than anybody else, but I really think that I’m hilarious and beautiful.
More Trixie Mattel Quotes
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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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I have definitely had guys walk up to me, put their arm around me, and when they walk away, my shoulder smells like taco meat.
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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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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 love my life so much. I wouldn’t change anything.
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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 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.
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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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As drag queens and as comic people, we listen to our own artistic compass all the time.
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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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I’m not good at anything! I can do, like, two voices.
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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 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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Something that I love about drag is that it’s a celebration of feminity.
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