RuPaul Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

SOmetimes life isn't fair, and straight people are straight up crazy. — RuPaul

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

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

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. — RuPaul

Be yourself. Know your proportions. And have a good tailor. — RuPaul

You are born naked, the rest is drag. — RuPaul

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

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

But if you deem them worthy, people deserve a second chance. — RuPaul

I'm motivated by the laughter, honestly. It's really not about the money or being more famous. I really love creativity. — RuPaul

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

Own who you are and celebrate it. — RuPaul

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

When there are no words, let your eyes do the talking. — RuPaul

The amount of respect you have for others is in direct proportion to how much respect you have for yourself. — RuPaul

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

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

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

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

I'm six foot four - hello. And with hair, heels, and attitude ... I'm through the mother-freakin' roof! — RuPaul

Some people are beyond help, just accept that. — RuPaul

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

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

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

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

The world is your catwalk, so just remember this when you're out there. — RuPaul

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Our ego never wants to die and it will do anything to prolong its life. But the truth is, we are both spirit and ego and you have to have a balance between the two. Your spirit never dies, but the ego is all about beginnings and ends. — RuPaul

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

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

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

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

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

When someone wrongs you, walk away from them and don't ever look back. — RuPaul

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

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

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

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

My music is a reflection of what I really love to listen to, pop, dance, mid tempo dance and ballads. — RuPaul

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

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

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

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

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

Kindness only goes so far, and then it's time to show your claws. — RuPaul

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

It's as if our culture is addicted to fear and the flat screen is our drug dealer. — RuPaul

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

I always felt like an outer-space alien. I was always breaking the fourth wall. — RuPaul

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

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

Spirituality has nothing to do with church, and everything to do with hair. — RuPaul

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The main thing that motivates me is laughter, and colors, and music, and dancing! And I do all of the above every day. — RuPaul

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

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

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

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

It's important to use a stage name so that your real name doesn't appear on public records. — RuPaul

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

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

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

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

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

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

When you're face to face with someone less worthy, tell them. — RuPaul

I can always sniff out when someone is being what they think I want them to be, which is the complete opposite. I really want a queen to be herself. — RuPaul

The greatest truths in life are the ones your fellow queens are willing to tell you. — RuPaul

We are born nude and everything after that is drag. — RuPaul

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

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

I'm always game for everything. What people don't understand is that the networks are who you have to get to take a chance on you. I wanna do it all. The trick is convincing a network to do it with you. — RuPaul

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

Haters gonna hate, but here are the only words you need for them. Sashay, away. — RuPaul

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