RuPaul
I always bring an orange scarf, not just so I can wear it or tuck it into my pocket, but also so I can throw it over a lamp in the hotel room. Orange is my favourite colour, and it gives a lovely, warm ambience.
Anna Wintour is a very smart woman. She's a Scorpio, like me.
The number one taboo for boys is to be feminine, so for someone to not only override their internal directive but society's directive is mind-boggling and heroic. It's courageous.
Drag breaks the fourth wall, which is why it's never been quite accepted, because nobody wants to be told that they are really a caricature of themself and to not take yourself too seriously.
My number one tip for all people, not just drag queens, is false eyelashes, which make every look go from daytime to glamazon!
I enjoy being creative.
We encrypt 'Drag Race' with the secret language that kept gay people linked for many years before the '80s.
It's a neutralizing mantra to say to everybody, 'I come in peace.' I come in peace. That's why it's important.
Wyoming - God bless you in Wyoming - it's very boring, and it's the most isolated place on Earth.
Own who you are and celebrate it.Collection: Celebrate
If you can't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?Collection: Beauty
Negativity is basically laziness. It takes a lot of hard work to remain positive, but positivity always pays off.Collection: Positive
Life is about using the whole box of crayons.Collection: Life
Haters gonna hate, but here are the only words you need for them. Sashay, away.Collection: Hate
When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do.Collection: Powerful
The world is your catwalk, so just remember this when you're out there.Collection: World
my goal is to always come from a place of love ...but sometimes you just have to break it down for a motherfuckerCollection: Goal
Kindness only goes so far, and then it's time to show your claws.Collection: Kindness
It's important to stay in this moment right here, the now. This moment is the most important moment of your life.Collection: Important
Whatever you proclaim as your identity here in the material realm is also your drag. You are not your religion. You are not your skin color. You are not your gender, your politics, your career, or your marital status. You are none of the superficial things that this world deems important. The real you is the energy force that created the entire universe!Collection: Real
Drag threatens people because it exposes and mocks identity. Because most people believe that they are what it says they are on their driver's license. But the truth is we are all born naked, and the rest is drag.Collection: Believe
Actually, it does start with you - if you want to change the world, change yourself.Collection: Doe
When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent.Collection: Change
What other people think of me is not my business. What I do is what I do. How people see me doesn’t change what I decide to do.Collection: Thinking
Don't take life too seriously and have fun. Don't waste your time on things that your ego will try and convince you are important.Collection: Fun
Anybody who can step out of the house with a pair of heels and some lipstick on their lips is my hero.Collection: Hero
My attitude toward friendship has remained the same. I will support and encourage you with all the love in my heart, but if it's not reciprocal, I gotta go. If your friends are bitter about your success to the extent that they act out, don't expect them to change. Move on.Collection: Attitude
Loving yourself—it really takes a daily practice.Collection: Loving Yourself
True wealth is having a healthy mind, body, and spirit. True wealth is having the knowledge to maneuver and navigate the mental obstacles that inhibit your ability to soar.Collection: Healthy
We're born naked, and the rest is drag.Collection: Naked
When someone wrongs you, walk away from them and don't ever look back.Collection: Looks
Ego loves identity. Drag mocks identity. Ego hates dragCollection: Hate
The truth of who we are has nothing to do with religion or the type of car that we drive or the color of our skin. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. And the human experience part is very temporary. So, things like the bar, love, magic, dancing, and colors are there to remind us to not take all of this stuff so seriously.Collection: Spiritual
Even when I was down, I treated myself as a star and eventually the world would catch up.Collection: Stars
I always felt like an outer-space alien. I was always breaking the fourth wall.Collection: Wall
To this day it cracks me up to think that my debut on national British television as a reporter ends with me turning a trick.Collection: Thinking
Some girls talk to the boys in the chat room, my girls talk to the boys in the backroom.Collection: Girl
No one wants a cherry pie that bites back.Collection: Pie
Our bodies are just temporary vessels for our souls, which will go on forever. You really are an extension of the power that created the whole universe, no matter what drags you have on.Collection: Forever
When I think about my Glamazon, would that character get down if someone said her thighs were heavy? No, she knows what other people think is none of her damn business.Collection: Character
I'm motivated by the laughter, honestly. It's really not about the money or being more famous. I really love creativity.Collection: Laughter
Most women, when they ask me for beauty tips aren't really prepared for my answer, which is, there is no magic beauty wand that can transform you and make you beautiful. It takes practice and what you see on Rupaul's Drag Race is years and years of practice.Collection: Beautiful
As gay people, we always think outside of the box. The irreverent is always important to a drag queen and anyone else who lives outside the box. And this is why drag's important: remember to not take life seriously. It's always important to see the laughter in the illusion that we pretend is real.Collection: Queens
Drag queens always love a portmanteau of combining words and making something new, because this whole world is shilarious. And so you have to contain yourself with words. Shilarious is just something that is a really hooty kiki funny item.Collection: Queens
Sharon Needles. Did I meet you at the free clinic?Collection: Sharon
I love David Bowie and Cher and Diana Ross. I wanted to follow in their footsteps. So I set out to do that in a rock-'n'-roll band in Atlanta, Georgia. That led me to nightclubs and to the sort of Andy Warhol experience of creating a personality.Collection: Creating
Walking with your chest out and your head held high says you have earned the right to stomp and pummel this particular piece of real estate.Collection: Real
I feel like a mother-queen-vampire-Dracula because I want to make more girls so I can have more friends and more girls to play with, you know? For a long time, it was really just me. There were other girls in the niche underground, but not on a world level.Collection: Girl
Don't take life too seriously.Collection: Life