RuPaul famous quotes

Anybody who can step out of the house with a pair of heels and some lipstick on their lips is my hero.
-- RuPaul

#Hero #House #Pairs

If you read Animal Farm, you know that humans traditionally forget the reason we have revolutions in the first place.
-- RuPaul

#Animal #Firsts #Revolution

When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do.
-- RuPaul

#Powerful #Imagination #Most Powerful

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

#Queens #Laughter #Real

When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent.
-- RuPaul

#Tough

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

#Denial #Letters #Neon

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

#Two #Drug #Down And

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

#Beautiful #Years #Practice

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

#Attitude #Moving #Heart

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

#Men #Thinking #Hysteria

If you have goals and the stick-with-it-ness to make things happen, people will feel threatened by you, especially if your goals don’t include them. They believe that if you take a piece of pie, then that leaves less pie for them. Seeing you follow your dreams leaves them realizing that they’re not following theirs. In truth, there is unlimited pie for everyone!
-- RuPaul

#Dream #Believe #Pie

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

#Effort #Facts #Gorgeous

You have to use what you have to get what you want.
-- RuPaul

#Use #Want #What You Want

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

#Queens #World #Something New

Negativity is basically laziness. It takes a lot of hard work to remain positive, but positivity always pays off.
-- RuPaul

#Positive #Hard Work #Positivity

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

#Determination #Taken #Live Life

We're born naked, and the rest is drag.
-- RuPaul

#Naked #Drag #Born

I feel an obligation to myself to entertain myself and if other people get something out of it, I'm like, right on.
-- RuPaul

#People #Obligation #Feels

It's quite simple: If someone says UR beautiful, believe them. If someone says UR ugly, don't believe them.
-- RuPaul

#Beautiful #Believe #Simple

You are not your body. You are actually an extension of the power that created the whole universe.
-- RuPaul

#Body #Universe

my goal is to always come from a place of love ...but sometimes you just have to break it down for a motherfucker
-- RuPaul

#Goal #Sometimes #Break

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

#Doctors #Important #Culture

Excuses are for losers, and winning is for winners, like you!
-- RuPaul

#Winning #Loser #Winner

You can't have a discussion about bullying unless you also have a discussion against our culture's obsession with masculinity.
-- RuPaul

#Bullying #Culture #Obsession

With hair, heels, and attitude, honey, I am through the roof.
-- RuPaul

#Inspiring #Attitude #Hair

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

#Healthy #Mind #Body

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

#Careers #Years #Long

All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money.
-- RuPaul

#Funny #Money #Sin

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

#Track #Brain #Information

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!
-- RuPaul

#Real #Skin Color #Careers

The public wants a great product, but they also want more layers of value. So it's lifestyle, it's takeaway, it's entertainment. It's all of those things and social media facilitates a big chunk of that, because they want to touch and feel you, they want to talk to someone about it, they want to join a community of other people who dance to the beat of a different drummer.
-- RuPaul

#Media #People #Community

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

#Party #Knowing #Different

The only thing you have to watch out for is other people who feel threatened by your party.
-- RuPaul

#Party #People #Watches

Don't be jealous of my boogie...
-- RuPaul

#Jealous #Being Jealous #Boogie

That is the key to navigating this life - don't take it too seriously. That's when the party begins.
-- RuPaul

#Party #Keys #This Life

Life is about using the whole box of crayons.
-- RuPaul

#Teacher #Appreciation #Life Is

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

#Writing #Magic #Bowie

If you can't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?
-- RuPaul

#Beauty #Women #Love You

We all came into this world naked. The rest is all drag.
-- RuPaul

#World #Naked #Drag

Don't be afraid to use all the colors in the crayon box.
-- RuPaul

#Color #Use #Crayon

And If I fly or if I fall, at least I can say I gave it all.
-- RuPaul

#Fall

Style is a celebratory expression of your life force. You must approach it with a sense of joie de vivre.
-- RuPaul

#Expression #Style #Force

Actually, it does start with you - if you want to change the world, change yourself.
-- RuPaul

#World #Want #Doe

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

#Long #Care #Call Me

Even when I was down, I treated myself as a star and eventually the world would catch up.
-- RuPaul

#Stars #World #Treated

Through my observations, it became clear that most of society's rules and customs are rooted in fear and superstition!
-- RuPaul

#Superstitions #Observation #Clear

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.
-- RuPaul

#Thinking #People #Think Of Me

Negativity is basically laziness.
-- RuPaul

#Negativity #Laziness

Some girls talk to the boys in the chat room, my girls talk to the boys in the backroom.
-- RuPaul

#Girl #Boys #Rooms

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

#Men #Naked #Drag

Loving yourself—it really takes a daily practice.
-- RuPaul

#Loving Yourself #Practice #Loving You

Very little is off -limits, but draw the line at being unkind.
-- RuPaul

#Lines #Littles #Limits

Definition of lecture: An art of transmitting Information from the notes of the lecturer to the notes of students without passing through the minds of either. Definition of conference: The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present Definition of office: A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life. "What people say about me behind my back is none of my business."
-- RuPaul

#Art #Humor #Home

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

#Shopping #Clothes #Why Not

Be very careful of what you allow to infiltrate your consciousness and subconsciousness. When you watch too much television, you'll start to feel inferior from all the commercials hard selling the idea that you're not complete unless you buy their product [...] The ad agencies appeal to your fear of not being wanted or loved. It's the same with the local news. They get you to stay tuned with a constant stream of fear tactics [...] It's as if our culture is addicted to fear and the flat screen is our drug dealer. Don't allow that crap into your head!
-- RuPaul

#Agency #Ideas #Drug

The mantle of glamour has been taken from the women and given to the men. The women toil in their shadows, plain and ordinary-looking. So that transition has left a void. It is a void for drop-dead, impossible, over-the-top glamour. Supermodels fill that void. The only thing they have to do is work the runway, sweetie, and refuse to get out of bed for less than ten thousand dollars.
-- RuPaul

#Taken #Men #Shadow

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

#Character #Thinking #People

I'm a regular Joe...I just have the unique ability to accessorize.
-- RuPaul

#Unique #Ability

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

#Sarcastic #Queens #Laughing

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.
-- RuPaul

#Women #Real #Pieces

Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-- RuPaul

#Beautiful #Makeup #Men

Sharon Needles. Did I meet you at the free clinic?
-- RuPaul

#Needles #Sharon #Clinic

I've dedicated my career to fighting the mundane. My hope is that my career will be a shining example to children everywhere that life is more meaningful when you are not afraid to see all colors of the rainbow.
-- RuPaul

#Meaningful #Children #Fighting

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

#Self #Looks #Hey

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

#Queens #Giving #Lifetime

I do not impersonate females! How many women do you know who wear seven inch heels, four foot wigs, and skintight dresses?
-- RuPaul

#Feet #Wigs #Four

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.
-- RuPaul

#Forever #Soul #Goes On

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

#Gay #People #Our Family

Ego loves identity. Drag mocks identity. Ego hates drag
-- RuPaul

#Hate #Ego #Identity

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. I don't choose projects so people don't see me as one thing or another. I choose projects that excite me. I think the problem is that people refuse to understand what drag is outside of their own belief system.
-- RuPaul

#Thinking #People #Belief

No one wants a cherry pie that bites back.
-- RuPaul

#Pie #Want #Cherries