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.
TRIXIE MATTELDrag will always find a way to be weird.
More Trixie Mattel Quotes
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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 an artist who happens to be in drag. And I think that’s why my drag is a little different.
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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’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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Drag will always find a way to be weird.
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Something that I love about drag is that it’s a celebration of feminity.
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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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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’m like the Justin Bieber of the drag world.
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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 strange! I have a weird sense of humor! I look crazy!
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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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When someone says ‘Yasss queen!’ to me, I turn around and, X-Men style, run through a wall. You’ll never hear from me again.
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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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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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