Quotes About Drag Queens

#1. But clothing themselves in the trappings of democracy, dictators may, like drag queens, tend to overdo it, and Napoleon wanted there to be no doubt that his French Republic was more democratic than any before it.

Tom Reiss

#2. I'm slightly obsessed with drag queens and performers. Their quips and their one-liners, their style, their singing ... I find it fascinating. And thoroughly entertaining. I'd love to play one.

Russell Tovey

#3. There's a strange lack of knowledge about the role of drag queens in our culture. I attribute this to the appalling state of our country's education system. Others might blame an utter lack of interest. Who am I to judge?

Josh Kilmer-Purcell

#4. I love drag queens and they love me.

Tori Spelling

#5. I would be happier if it were a full audience full of drag queens. It would be my dreams come true.

Ladyhawke

#6. 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.

RuPaul

#7. We are all illusionists and that's why we are attracted to drag queens. This whole world is an illusion. It's not real.

RuPaul

#8. I first learned how to do hair from drag queens. I learned eyelashes are the key to life, because they make everyone look fabulous.

Tabatha Coffey

#9. I've seen some very beautiful drag queens.

Bebe Neuwirth

#10. This requires a level of delusion/egomania usually reserved for popes and drag queens

Tina Fey

#11. Every corner of the sky awkwardly showed up wearing the exact same thing, a moody gray dress accessorized with flat clouds. If North, South, East, and West were drag queens, this would be bad, very bad.

Edmond Manning

#12. At 13, when I was a runaway, I was taken in by the most amazing drag queens in Portland, Ore. We didn't always know where our next meal was coming from, but there was so much camaraderie and love. Not to mention, those girls could paint a face, and I learned how because of them.

Rose McGowan

#13. Actors are basically drag queens. People will tell you they act because they want to heal mankind or, you know, explore the nature of the human psyche. Yes, maybe. But basically we just want to put on a frock and dance.

Colin Firth

#14. I love drag queens ... they perform me better than I ever could myself.

Taylor Dane

#15. I love drag queens and I love going to see them perform because those people have got so much character and bravery. Such balls! I love people with balls.

Elton John

#16. Sure, my childhood was unusual. All these eccentric, wild people frequented our home: rock stars, drag queens, models, bikers, freaks. But I was not this little rich girl. My mom and I lived in an apartment.

Liv Tyler

#17. I'm bi everything; sexual, coastal, political, controversial. I think if you find your comfortable sexual preference then that's excellent. Everybody knows that I'm a huge fan of gay men and drag queens and would not be who I am today without their help, support and make-up tips.

Jessicka

#18. I'd love to do a show in Vegas with drag queens. The tackier the better.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

#19. We're having Thanksgiving at our place," he said. "An old-fashioned Thanksgiving." "With drag queens and hookers and cranberry sauce?" I asked breathlessly. "Just like at Grandma's," he replied.

Josh Kilmer-Purcell

#20. Hair extensions and wigs are not the same thing. Wigs are for old ladies and drag queens. Extensions are for women who want longer hair. To be safe, never bring it up if you think a woman is wearing either. No good comes of it.

Jennifer Coolidge

#21. I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.

Laura Kightlinger

#22. I believe it was Today show fourth-hour host Kathie Lee Gifford who said, 'If drag queens love you, you'll have the longest career in the world. They know phony and they know real.'

Kathie Lee Gifford

#23. I am never offended when I see the drag-queens dressed up like me.

Cher

#24. A lot of the early songs I wrote were about the experience of going to London and meeting rent boys and transvestites and drag queens. A lot of my early material is that: the wide-eyed adventures of a middle-class boy.

Marc Almond

#25. Republicans are the drag queens of politics. Peel away the pules for family, faith and fetuses and one discovers either neoconservative welfare-warfare statists or global social democrats ...

Ilana Mercer

#26. Day drag." Ashley answered simply. "The sun turns vampires into dust and drag queens into this." He motioned with his hand down his body.

Kyle Adams

#27. That's the thing I loved about drag queens, life was a constant movie; no matter how ridiculously things didn't match they would sacrifice everything for the pose, and I was definitely into the pose.

Mary Woronov

#28. I am not a boy, not a girl, I am not gay, not straight, I am not a drag queen, not a transsexual - I am just me, Jackie.

Jackie Curtis

#29. Give a drag queen a fish and you feed her for a day; show her how to be fishy and you feed her for a lifetime.

RuPaul

#30. I really think my fun personality is my ace in the hole. I will never claim to be the most beautiful or most talented queen, because I can think of many queens who fit that description. However, it's my "charisma" that takes me to a higher level in my drag!

Manila Luzon

#31. I think part of me would love to play a drag queen, just because it would be an excuse to wear loads of eye makeup.

Daniel Radcliffe

#32. I guess a drag queen's like an oil painting: You gotta stand back from it to get the full effect.

Harvey Fierstein

#33. She called herself Starla, Queen of the Nile, and she had me from the first moment I saw her walk onto that stage. She wore nine-inch-heels and a dress that shone in the multi-colored lighting, glimmering through the haze created by the smoke machines and cigarettes.

Emma Rose Kraus

#34. A Rubik's cube is equal to a drag queen. It's really colorful, but I don't wanna do it.

Demetri Martin

#35. If horse racing is the sport of kings, then drag racing must be the sport of queens.

Bert Sugar

#36. Basically I'm a drag queen myself.

Dusty Springfield

#37. If I hadn't been a woman, I'd have been a drag queen

Dolly Parton

#38. My little cousin Jimmy told me in jail he was a drag queen.

Master P

#39. Hell hath no fury like a drag queen scorned,

Sylvia Rivera

#40. Purim, one of my favorite holidays. It's like the original drag queen's holiday. It's when all the Jewish men go for it and feel no guilt for a change.

Sandra Bernhard

#41. 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.

RuPaul

#42. There are easier things in life than being a drag queen. But I ain't got no choice. Try as I may, I just can't walk in flats.

Harvey Fierstein