Top 100 Rupaul's Quotes
#1. If the Cowardly Lion were on RuPaul's Drag Race, so much of my childhood would be less nightmarish.
Julie Klausner
#2. 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.
RuPaul
#4. Did you take your sassy pills tonight, Jules?"
"Seriously, Jane. I will cut a bitch."
"Where did you even learn that expression? Have you been watching RuPaul's Drag Race again?
Nicole Peeler
#5. A glamazon is someone who's taken a love of beauty and life and listen, depending on the weather or how my blood sugar at any time, I can be more outspoken than other times, but it's a conscious decision to live life with a fierce determination.
RuPaul
#6. There's really no way to fast-track someone because the rate that their brain is able to interpret the information they're getting is on pace with life.
RuPaul
#7. Throw a little shade when you need to.
RuPaul
#8. Own who you are and celebrate it.
RuPaul
#9. When you're face to face with someone less worthy, tell them.
RuPaul
#10. Some girls talk to the boys in the chat room, my girls talk to the boys in the backroom.
RuPaul
#11. 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.
RuPaul
#12. 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.
RuPaul
#13. My music is a reflection of what I really love to listen to, pop, dance, mid tempo dance and ballads.
RuPaul
#14. I'd like to go for people I admire - I always gravitate towards the people I idolized when I was a teenager: Cher, Diana Ross, and David Bowie.
RuPaul
#15. When I moved to Canada in '93, I started reading fashion magazines, and that's where I spotted the M.A.C ad that RuPaul were in. That's sort of how I first "met" you - in the red bodysuit. That was so iconic to me.
Jason Wu
#16. You are not your body. You are actually an extension of the power that created the whole universe.
RuPaul
#17. Spirituality has nothing to do with church, and everything to do with hair.
RuPaul
#18. It's quite simple: If someone says UR beautiful, believe them. If someone says UR ugly, don't believe them.
RuPaul
#19. When I was about 13, 14 - 13, I would carry a magic marker with me everywhere I went so I could write the word "Bowie" on everything that wasn't mine.
RuPaul
#20. Look at me
a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
RuPaul
#21. I'm motivated by the laughter, honestly. It's really not about the money or being more famous. I really love creativity.
RuPaul
#22. The world is your catwalk, so just remember this when you're out there.
RuPaul
#23. It's important to stay in this moment right here, the now. This moment is the most important moment of your life.
RuPaul
#24. I'm always talking about loving yourself and expressing yourself and learning how to love yourself. I'm still the same.
RuPaul
#25. What makes a gay icon is someone who possesses both masculine and feminine qualities simultaneously.
RuPaul
#26. I'm a regular Joe ... I just have the unique ability to accessorize.
RuPaul
#27. American culture is one that is so easily in denial. We have such a strange dichotomy, so hypocritical. The truth can be blaring in neon letters but our culture will find a reason not to hear what the truth is.
RuPaul
#28. Kindness only goes so far, and then it's time to show your claws.
RuPaul
#29. When someone wrongs you, walk away from them and don't ever look back.
RuPaul
#30. When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do.
RuPaul
#31. 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.
RuPaul
#32. It's very easy for me to take on other people's energy, so my personal mantra is " Love yourself, love yourself, love yourself. "
RuPaul
#33. My life is so much better, it's so much more enriched if I make the effort, if I actually celebrate with gladitude the fact that I get to be on this gorgeous planet.
RuPaul
#34. 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.
RuPaul
#35. 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
#36. It's been important to cultures throughout history with the court jester and the witch doctor and the shaman - all preach the same thing.
RuPaul
#37. I think in times of fear and hysteria in a culture, gender experimentation as it pertains to men has to go underground because it scares people too much and it's too much for people to take on. Especially when a culture is held hostage by fear and hysteria and fundamentalism.
RuPaul
#38. That is the key to navigating this life - don't take it too seriously. That's when the party begins.
RuPaul
#39. You can't have a discussion about bullying unless you also have a discussion against our culture's obsession with masculinity.
RuPaul
#40. I do not impersonate females! How many women do you know who wear seven inch heels, four foot wigs, and skintight dresses?
RuPaul
#41. As a kid, I was searching for my tribe of other people who saw through the matrix. Even as a kid I could never buy into the status quo. I just thought it was a joke; I couldn't believe other people weren't laughing at it.
RuPaul
#42. Remember to love yourself, because if you can't love yourself, how in the hell are you gonna love somebody else? Can I get an amen in here?
RuPaul
#43. It's as if our culture is addicted to fear and the flat screen is our drug dealer.
RuPaul
#44. It's important to make a great first impression, so make sure to hold on to your damn weave.
RuPaul
#45. Even when I was down, I treated myself as a star and eventually the world would catch up.
RuPaul
#46. I'm six foot four - hello. And with hair, heels, and attitude ... I'm through the mother-freakin' roof!
RuPaul
#47. Sharon Needles. Did I meet you at the free clinic?
RuPaul
#48. We're born naked, and the rest is drag.
RuPaul
#49. Ego loves identity. Drag mocks identity. Ego hates drag.
RuPaul
#50. You have to use what you have to get what you want.
RuPaul
#51. Don't take life too seriously.
RuPaul
#52. Very little is off -limits, but draw the line at being unkind.
RuPaul
#53. Don't be jealous of my boogie ...
RuPaul
#54. I always felt like an outer-space alien. I was always breaking the fourth wall.
RuPaul
#55. The greatest truths in life are the ones your fellow queens are willing to tell you.
RuPaul
#56. So many times, people are afraid to start something because of fear of failing. But it can be fabulous - because it leads you to the next thing.
RuPaul
#57. I change clothes at least three times a day. It's the only way I can justify all the shopping I do. Prada to the grocery store? Yes! Gucci to the dry cleaner's? Why not? Dolce & Gabbana to the corner deli? I insist!
RuPaul
#58. Drag is like breaking the fourth wall in theater where we're letting you know straight up that this is an illusion. People are attracted to that because they know it's the truth of who they are also. No one is who they think they are. That's why people are attracted to drag.
RuPaul
#59. Life is about using the whole box of crayons.
RuPaul
#60. When there are no words, let your eyes do the talking.
RuPaul
#61. The truth is - most things are probably gonna fail. But my failures bring me to the next thing. So in that regard, nothing's a failure, it's a continuation.
RuPaul
#62. The point about pop culture is that so much of it is borrowed. There's very little that's brand new. Instead, creativity today is a kind of shopping process - picking up on and sampling things form the world around you, things you grew up with.
RuPaul
#63. 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.
RuPaul
#64. It's all about knowing that everybody that you see, everybody that you sit across from is a different aspect of yourself. So once you can accept yourself on every level, that's when everything opens up, that's when the party really begins.
RuPaul
#65. 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
#66. The main thing that motivates me is laughter, and colors, and music, and dancing! And I do all of the above every day.
RuPaul
#67. Anybody who can step out of the house with a pair of heels and some lipstick on their lips is my hero.
RuPaul
#68. The overall commentary on what I'm doing is saying, 'Hey look! I get to create whatever persona I want to, and it's all up to me. And the truth is, we are all - basically the universe - pretending to be humans for a brief moment of time. With a little self-induced amnesia.
RuPaul
#69. We as gay people get to choose our family and the people we're around. I am your family. We are a family here.
RuPaul
#70. There's not a long career span because you can't really make money doing drag for very long the way the system was set up for so many years.
RuPaul
#71. Don't be afraid to use all the colors in the crayon box.
RuPaul
#72. It's a sort of piss-take on culture, because a drag queen is a clown - a parody of our society. It's a sarcastic spoof on culture, which allows us to laugh at ourselves - but in a way that is inclusive of everyone.
RuPaul
#73. You want to know the truth about drugs? You can only go one or two ways. You can go up, or you can go down. That's it. After a certain point, though, no matter what you do, what you take, you don't go anywhere, and that's when you've got to sit down and face yourself.
RuPaul
#74. Being booed off stage is just an applause from ghosts!
Sharon Needles
#75. The world we live in is made up of polar opposites, black/white, male/female, night/day, and a human being who possesses both masculine and feminine - vulnerability and strength - is intriguing to us, whether they be a singer or actor or dancer, intrigues us, because THAT Is who we really are.
RuPaul
#76. SOmetimes life isn't fair, and straight people are straight up crazy.
RuPaul
#77. 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.
RuPaul
#78. It's important to use a stage name so that your real name doesn't appear on public records.
RuPaul
#79. Be yourself. Know your proportions. And have a good tailor.
RuPaul
#80. All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money.
RuPaul
#81. When I was a kid in San Diego, I would read fashion magazines and Interview magazine, and all of that really inspired me to create a persona. So by the time I moved to New York, in the early '80s, I'd learned how to create a persona, and I knew what my persona would be.
RuPaul
#82. With hair, heels, and attitude, honey, I am through the roof.
RuPaul
#83. Illusion starts between the ears. If the person doing illusion doesn't believe it, then the audience doesn't believe it. Seeing the picture in your head will allow the audience to see it in their heads.
RuPaul
#84. You're born naked, and the rest is drag! EVERYBODY is in drag. Whether you're a man or a woman. It just depends on how extreme you wanna go.
RuPaul
#85. Karen is like RuPaul - she's a character. It never occurred to me until now, but she is!
Megan Mullally
#86. Sacrifices have to be made if you want to make a dent in the world, and that's what I started out to do - to make a dent in pop culture.
RuPaul
#87. Through my observations, it became clear that most of society's rules and customs are rooted in fear and superstition!
RuPaul
#88. No one wants a cherry pie that bites back.
RuPaul
#89. You are born naked, the rest is drag.
RuPaul
#90. 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.
RuPaul
#91. When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent.
RuPaul
#92. Excuses are for losers, and winning is for winners, like you!
RuPaul
#93. My motivation comes from a love of being creative. I'm in love with music and colour and laughter and dancing and all things that are beautiful.
RuPaul
#94. I chose to devote the lion's share of my time to my personal growth and to my family. I reconnected with the part of me that I had left behind.
RuPaul
#95. My goal is to always come from a place of love ... but sometimes you just have to break it down for a motherfucker
RuPaul
#96. We are born nude and everything after that is drag.
RuPaul
#97. Style is a celebratory expression of your life force. You must approach it with a sense of joie de vivre.
RuPaul
#98. 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.
RuPaul
#99. You can call me he. You can call me she. You can call me Regis and Kathie Lee; I don't care! Just as long as you call me.
RuPaul
#100. And If I fly or if I fall, at least I can say I gave it all.
RuPaul
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