Top 410 Drag Quotes

When people see my makeup, they think all types of crazy things that I’m doing to my skin, but it’s makeup. It’s the weirdest thing. They’ll see contouring and think you had surgery on your nose. No. No. No. Look at ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ and you’ll see… you can make your nose look… what ever shape you want it.

What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it’s a drag? But you see, that’s what people do.

As a drag queen, you can pick your hair and I’ve made some horrible choices.

Drag Race’ is a lot like ‘Game of Thrones.’ There’s a lot of different alliances, queens fight for the crown, they take the throne.

For me, drag is not about being a woman – or being anything, specifically.

Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but people must want her, and seek her out.

When teams are really out on me, I’m trying to drag them out as much as possible so my teammates can make plays.

I started drag in Portland, Oregon, but I don’t feel that I came to life as a drag queen until I started working in Seattle. That’s what really lit the rocket fuel in my career.

I’m an artist who happens to be in drag. And I think that’s why my drag is a little different.

To the fashion world, a man in a dress will always be camp. But in the drag world, you have specific genres. So for me, for instance, I’m most categorized as a ‘look queen.’

Drag, in my view these days, has become the thing it used to make fun of – which is Jennifer Lopez. Now we all want to be her. We have stylists; we have special photographers.

You know, women are as promiscuous as men and yet, of course, people are inhibited from having an affair or a relationship because the real-world consequences are a drag.

What I love so much about drag is that it has politics at its very core; drag performers aren’t afraid to talk about politics in our community and the changes we need to see systemically in society.

Drag queens, our whole art form is about taking inspiration from artists we adore.

I don’t think drag will ever be mainstream because it’s counter to what the mainstream directive is, which is picking an identity and sticking with it for the rest of your life.

If one drag queen penetrates the mainstream and opens up a new avenue for us to take with our careers, that means all of us can potentially do that.

Drag racing has played a big role in In-N-Out’s history, and it is also an important part of my family history.

I became part of a drag family, which is where I got part of my last name, Davenport, from. I got the name Sahara from one of my favorite performers at that time, Sierra. I was like, ‘I’m black, so I should be the African one, Sahara.’

Drag Race’ is a competition.

Nowadays, ‘Drag Race’ shows how fantastic and amazing drag queens can be, so audiences won’t sit through a boring show anymore. You have to keep people entertained.

The ability to create anything I want without rules is the real thing I love about drag.

When it comes to drag, my favorite thing we can do is kind of push against the beauty standards of magazines. We don’t need to look like supermodels. That what really makes drag special and makes it unique and makes it queer.

I wanted to be a drag queen so badly. I’ll bet I still own more wigs than any drag queen – I love me a wig.

I’m kind of claustrophobic… It’s not even like enclosed spaces. It’s like I hate being stuck in one band, you know? Just being stuck is the biggest drag, for fear that, you know, just that you can’t get out.

I’ve done drag races. I’ve done Long Beach Grand Prix stuff. I’ve done NASCAR stuff. Just about anything carwise under the sun, I’ve done. Whether it be driving schools or racing schools, I’ve had a passion for it for a long time.

Out of drag, I’m a white guy with a guitar, which isn’t special. There are a million white guys with guitars. But being a drag queen with a guitar is a lot more commanding.

I am all for a good drag out argument every now and then, but the person that talks the loudest and uses the most curse words is not necessarily the winner of the argument.

You can’t get anything gayer than ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race!’

I probably have over a hundred pairs of high-heel shoes. I collect them. Over however-many years, from, like, the mid-’80s on – yes, I’m that old – I’ve been in drag several times in my life, and I collect a lot of stuff, and I do have a lot of high-heel shoes that I’m sure a lot of people would be jealous about.

Drag queens are not pathetic creatures. Drag queens are fabulous and fun.

My drag name was Revvlon.

As a ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ queen, I meet so many fans from so many walks of life.

The war made me stronger; it was a very hard time for me and my family. I don’t want to drag that with me forever, but I don’t want to forget about it, either.

For me, it was really important to immerse myself in the New York nightlife drag scene and become an integral part of that community.

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.

Someone said to me a long time ago, ‘You’re a drag queen,’ and at the time I was a little like… hello? But then I realized over the years that I actually am.

I do a bunch of things when I’m in St. Louis. I went on the Anheuser-Busch tour they had to drag me out of there. I walked into that room with the 30,000 gallon keg of beer, and I said, ‘This will be my new home’… I mean, I was genuinely happy.

Past ‘Drag Race’ alum that I’ve spoken to, their biggest advice to me was, ‘Expect the unexpected,’ and, ‘There’s no way that you can prepare for this,’ so I thought I was at least ahead of the curve knowing that I wasn’t prepared.

I think drag helps move us in the direction of loosening up the man/woman binary. The idea that you’re one, or the other, it’s false. The more that as a society we become a little looser, more open to laugh about gender, that’s the direction the world needs to go in.

To me, drag is about doing whatever you want, and nobody says anything. And ‘Drag Race’ is about doing what you’re told and having it evaluated. I hate being judged.

I’m a drag queen who is thoughtful and serious about drag in addition to being funny, ambitious, and glamourous.

People loved me because I’m a great person to be friends with, but when it comes down to drag, I didn’t want them to think badly of me.

Finding animals that make light in the ocean is easy. Just drag a net through the water anywhere in the upper 3000 feet, and as many as 80-90% of the animals you catch can make light. The biomimetic lure that I developed imitates one of these – a common deep sea jellyfish called Atolla.

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.

Drag culture has always been about excess.

I grew up playing guitar and writing music, and I always wanted to be a songwriter and a singer and play the guitar. But while I was finishing college, my drag became lucrative, so I had to pursue what was going to pay the bills – and doing comedy as Trixie was something that I was able to market.

‘Hedwig’ was pretty much all the things I wanted to do that other people said I probably shouldn’t do: drag, punk rock, stand-up comedy… You know, combine them all in a thing that’s supremely uncommercial from the objective point of view.

There is no way to expect one ambassador to cover all of the U.S. government’s priority issues, and certainly there are a plethora of U.N. meetings that drag on with an unlimited number of speakers and no time limits.

I love drag, and I love people who gravitate toward it. Because the people who do drag are people who dance to the beat of a different drummer.

I started out in this business in rock and roll bands and stumbled into drag. Drag just happened to be my vehicle for my creativity. So, you know, it’s afforded me the opportunity to create new shows, to make music.

Drag shows are one of my favorite things in the world.

Drag queens in the UK, they survive it all – there’s a hen party, a stag party, people throwing beer bottles. They work not on their heels, but on their wits.

Costuming and clothing plays a really important role in my drag.

A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.

It is the greatest reward for me to share my story, my art, and my work. And people receiving that and being thankful and grateful, it once again resonates deep within because it reminds me that I am so much bigger than being a drag performer.

Drag is there to remind culture not to take itself too seriously. All of this is illusion.

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

We will not go. The only way to get us there is to come in here with clubs and knock us on the head, and drag us out and take us down there dead.