Top 131 Queens Quotes

It is eerie being all but alone in Westminster Abbey. Without the tourists, there are only the dead, many of them kings and queens. They speak powerfully and put my thoughts into vivid perspective.

Some drag queens want to get into drag and be sexy and date boys… that ain’t me.

Drag queens don’t work well outside. We’re designed for spotlights, not sunlight.

Queens perhaps perform better in the role of monarch because they never take their position for granted. Many kings have failed because they believed that the public would love them whatever they did. Queens knew better.

It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.

It’s a pleasure to join the ranks of Debbie Rochon, Linnea Quigley, and Heather Langenkamp as one of America’s most recognizable Scream Queens!

I produce content for a few people, actually, between Peppermint and Marti Gould Cummings and different local queens in New York City.

Not all drag queens but certainly the ones who empowered me, are people who pushed buttons, and poked fun at society from Leigh Bowery, to Lady Bunny and Divine.

Drag queens have always taken on that role of spilling the tea – and the tea is the emperor has no clothes!

‘Scream Queens’ was a big, sensational show. There’s nothing subtle about a Ryan Murphy show, and I love that.

I grew up in a semi-attached row house in Queens in New York. And my family and my grandparents and my father’s from Brooklyn, and so you’re essentially an outer boroughs kid, you’re growing up.

I think that my interpretation of Italian was a lot more southern than what my husband cooks. You know, I grew up in Queens and in Brooklyn, and we – really, it’s more southern. It’s Naples and Sicily. It’s heavier. It’s over-spiced. And like most Americans, I thought spaghetti and meatballs was genius.

I was raised in restaurants. My parents opened their first restaurant, Buonavia, in Queens when I was just 3. This business has always been my way of life. As a kid, home was reserved only for sleeping. After school, you could find my sister and I helping out at the family restaurant.

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.

Donald Trump is living proof of the American Dream. A kid from Queens, New York, who made it big. And, yeah – he’ll be the first to tell you he isn’t perfect. But who is?

I moved to Queens, New York, when I was seven and a half. I went to middle school in a foreign country, but I had so many different kinds of Americans push me along and encourage me. I was very odd. I didn’t talk very well. We were poor, and we didn’t have any connections, but people showed up and pushed me along.

There’s a difference between Miami and Fort Lauderdale, Brooklyn and Queens. There’s a difference.

I don’t really know why I started playing as a kid, but I grew up in Queens, New York, not too far from Forest Hills, where they played the U.S. Open in those days. I even got to be a ball boy there. Also, there was a tennis court just a block away from our house, and I’d hang out down there.

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don’t find out til too late that he’s been playing with two queens all along.

My problem is I live with only women – be it my mother, wife, daughters, cook, and nurse – who are all drama queens, ranging from the age of 8 to 75, all wanting a slice of me. But it’s mind-blowing to have these women in my life.

How Donald Trump has come so far with so few words – how he even managed to keep up conversationally with all those beauty queens – is a question I don’t expect ever to be solved.

Actual queens are dignified, beloved, regal, and gracious, and don’t walk into a room with their noses in the air.

In a perfect world we’d want gay people to play gay people, but I think that’s a good rule of thumb: Whoever gives the best audition should get the part. My problem is getting anybody to hire me for anything other than queens.

I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can’t remember us working it out.

Health, money. That’s what people worried about in the 14th century as much as today. I find it so much more interesting than the supposed activities of kings, queens, generals.

I suppose they call me a woman’s director because there were all these movie queens in the old days, and I directed most of them. But I also directed Jack Barrymore and Ronald Colman and James Stewart, to name a few.

But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.

If you put drag in front of anything, it inherently makes it more fun. So mashing up films with cult followings with drag queens is a natural fit for a good time.

I was like a fat, sweaty kid growing up in Queens who just was plopped down in front of ‘Entertainment Tonight’ by my parents.

I’m just a boy with a dream from Queens. Just a queen from Queens.

I’ve wined and dined with kings and queens, and I’ve slept in the alley eating pork and beans.

I was asked recently about the fact I show my body more in ‘Homecoming Queens’ than I have in other things and whether that was difficult to do. I never thought twice about it.

When I spent time with my father, it wasn’t playing ball in the back yard. I came to his office and listened to him do business or sat in on meetings. I walked job sites. On Saturday, we’d see my grandfather in Queens for a couple hours, and then he’d say, ‘Let’s go collect rent!’

I grew up with artists and drag queens. These were just my neighbors and friends and the people who are raising me.

Seasoned queens can also learn new tricks, right?

I love eating at my dad’s pub, the Queens Arms in Kilburn. It does a traditional Albanian spinach pie.

When I was eight and a half, my parents moved to a part of Queens where there was a club nearby. We joined, and if you believe in someone up above, I think I was meant to play tennis.

Drag has come a long way and people are respecting it, and giving drag queens and other people who defy gender norms more chances than they’ve ever been given before, but it’s thanks to people like RuPaul, especially, who set that momentum going.

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.

What I love that has happened for years now with ‘Drag Race’ is the queens can go on to have any kind of career.

A lot of people just feel really impacted and inspired by drag in ways that I don’t think we, as self-absorbed drag queens, think about that often.

I love the process of dressing up, and people that dress up, and serving looks and drag queens and club freaks and all of that.

One day mom sat down and says, ‘I’m moving my children to Queens. There was this quiet in the room and then everyone burst out laughing. Moving to Queens for us was like moving to Mars. It was like breaking out of poverty, the ultimate in luxury.

My fashion icons range from bubblegum pop princesses to grunge queens.

My family moved around a lot, so I don’t have any friends that I had all my life, but I did have annual trips back to Queens.

It’s like, ‘Oh, great, drag queens can excel!’ – but then the ceiling is so low. You’re only allowed on the first floor; you’re not allowed to go play with the big boys upstairs. Even RuPaul, who’s a massive success, has been limited to where her music career can take her.

I loved ‘King of Queens’… You can’t spend that amount of time somewhere and not pick that as your favorite.

In late 2004, I left my much-maligned home state of New Jersey for the supposedly greener pastures of Astoria, Queens. I’d finally be in the mix, living off the subway line, able to go from audition to audition during the day and from late night show to late night show in the wee hours of the morning.

Sometimes I write for other drag queens.

My favorite drag queens are Tammie Brown and Katya, so I like my drag queens a little left of sanity.

I think if you buy the ‘Christmas Queens 2’ album, there will be songs you love and songs you hate, just like every other album.

I hate – I hate – queens coming on and doing boy drag on ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ because I feel like it’s not edgy; it’s not different. You can see it anywhere.

Obviously I’ve had this fascination with aristocracy my whole life. Like, the kings and queens of 500 years ago… they’re like rock stars. If there was a ‘TMZ’ 500 years ago, it would be about, like, Henry VIII and Marie Antoinette and all those people.

Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn’t worth ruling.

A word of advice for all the aspiring drag queens out there: be resourceful.

My dad is from Queens. I remember visiting as a kid. My grandparents grew up here. All the actors I respected were coming out of here. All the hip-hop I was listening to – Beastie Boys, A Tribe Called Quest, Biggie, Wu Tang – was coming out of New York. I’m just into it.