The cool thing about being in drag, just like getting to play a role in a play, is that you get to play a fantasy and you get to play someone else that you’re not used to.
I love Kim Chi the drag queen from ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race,’ but I’m not sure about the food.
If you’re chained to a computer all day, you’re not using up much energy, even if you drag yourself to the gym a couple of days a week. And to make matters worse for me, I’ve had a secondary career right along with my romance writing – cookbook author, under my real name, Ruth Glick.
Drag performance is really emotional.
Sometimes I’ve found that by getting into a certain drag, or a certain feeling, you can cast off your mortal coil and really do something. I don’t know if it’s important, but it’s something. It’s entertainment.
People pull from drag culture because drag artists are – it’s the ultimate art form and it’s the last underdog art form. I mean, even clowns have college, you know what I mean? Drag queens, you have to learn drag from another drag queen.
I remember when I started performing, I thought, ‘Why is this something that we do after hours, underground?’ I was waiting on the world to change and the idea of this art to become mainstream, and I think that’s what ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ has really accomplished in such an eloquent way.
Drag is a chicken suit, and you’re very emboldened. Whatever you do or say or fail at or succeed at is attributed to your costume and not you as a person. So there’s a lot of freedom.
Politics remind me a lot of ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race.’ It’s real but it isn’t.
I didn’t plan to be a comedian. I didn’t plan to be a drag queen. It just kind of evolved.
If I would get an album out every eight months and if I would write songs that were more up-tempo and try to focus more on making singles, then I could probably get more attention. But I don’t think the albums would be very fun to listen to, and it would be a drag for me.
The injustice I feel when my kids drag me out of bed by 6 most mornings is tempered and possibly even erased by the happiness I feel when eating a thick piece of whole-grain toast with a shamelessly large cup of coffee.
When you’ve toured for about 10 years like me, you end up feeling like you’re always waiting for somebody or something. The whole day is a drag.
I had a drag mom but she didn’t really teach me about makeup. She just basically stuck me into gigs. And then I borrowed clothes from her and her drag to play the gigs.
I’ll do two gigs on a Saturday night until four o’clock in the morning, wake up, and do drag brunch on a Sunday, and then another party Sunday night. I definitely take what I do very seriously.
Don’t hang out with a bunch of people who drag you down when you can hang out with one person who makes you feel good.
Drag queens are extremely innovative and, I mean, we will persist through plague, famine, war or pandemic. We will prevail.
Drag Race’ has changed my career and life profoundly.
I think that drag makes anything better.
I did drag out of necessity. I had to do it… I had to create this other character because – because she’s cheaper than therapy.
What bin Laden had hoped to achieve in Afghanistan in the post-9/11 period, which was to drag the United States into a protracted guerrilla war like the one he had fought against the Soviets, never happened. Instead, that protracted guerrilla war is now playing out in Iraq, in the heart of the Middle East.
Occasionally I’ll have a slip, and I might watch ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ or something. But for the most part, I am out on the reality shows.
I never come out of drag to go anywhere. Everywhere I go I get all dressed up.
These are truly special days we live in – where a clown in a gown can make her very own drag queen revenge-comedy.
My family is trying to drag me kicking and screaming into the normal world. Please, I live in hotel rooms.
Before my time on ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race,’ Halloween was my favorite day of the year since I was a little kid. It’s the day we worship the macabre and live vicariously through the costumes that we wear.
There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original.
To make fluffy scrambled eggs, the best trick is to whisk in a splash of water and nothing else. Cream, milk, and other liquids drag the eggs down!
‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ is a show about love, art, passion, acceptance, and the quest for finding America’s next drag superstar. No show on the telly box has more grit than these queens.
When I started ‘Rent,’ I already had an idea of how I was going to portray Angel, simply because of who I was at that moment. Everyone always perceived her as a drag queen, but the reality of the matter is that I truly believe she was a trans woman.
I don’t have any problem with drag being more mainstream… I enjoy the fact that we’re moving toward a place where people are a lot more open.
If you under-invest in these areas of crisis, it becomes a persistent drag on growth.
When I’m doing an exaggerated character, I hope it’s clear I don’t think this is how women do, or should, act. There’s aspects of Looney Tunes in drag. But there’s something poignant about a man dressed as a woman, talking about gender. It can make you realize how similar the genders really are.
The clearest way to cut some of this fiscal drag would be to extend the current payroll tax holiday and increase it – as proposed by President Barack Obama. This would cut the fiscal drag by almost half.
Drag has been featured in popular culture for decades. Movies like ‘Kinky Boots,’ ‘Tootsie,’ ‘The Birdcage’ – even ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’ – have showcased men, some gay, some not, who dress and perform as women.
‘Party Down’ is the most fun I’ve ever had working in my life. We shoot 10-episode seasons and we shoot it in 10 weeks, so it’s very brief: 4-day episode shoots. You never get sick of anybody, and it never feels like a drag. It’s way, way, way too short.
There’s drag queens who lip sync brilliantly. There’s drag queens who sing live brilliantly – none of those are me.
A regular old drag queen is usually your science teacher who’s actually wearing women’s panties underneath his slacks. A drag-queen superstar is someone who actually works in clubs and makes a living doing it more than one night a year, or even one night in six months.
To me drag is like a superhero mask.
Let’s be real, I’m basically a drag queen.
I had so much fun working with the queens on ‘Drag Race U.K!’
It’s always been my dream, it’s always been my vision to work as an actor in Hollywood, in drag and out of drag.
There are friends of mine that I’ve known for years who didn’t like my brand of humor, but once I was on ‘Drag Race,’ they loved it.
Something that I love about drag is that it’s a celebration of feminity.
Historically, art has always had a market. When one medieval fiefdom defeated another they would drag back its jewels, gold, tapestries and art objects as the spoils of war. Art equaled power, riches and culture.
I’m slightly obsessed with drag queens and performers. Their quips and their one-liners, their style, their singing… I find it fascinating. And thoroughly entertaining. I’d love to play one.
I love drag so much and it’s a huge part of who I am but there’s also another side that hasn’t really gotten out into the music and I’m excited to show that.
I think barefaced, minimal makeup happens mostly on editorial shoots. And I’ve taken a swing at minimal makeup here and there, but I think a lot of what drag celebrates is the opposite of that. I think the inauthenticity and the hyperfemininity is part of why it’s so celebrated.
It upsets me that people think what I’m doing is a bad thing. I don’t think it’s a bad thing. If you know something to be a fact, why not report it?… If I have to drag some people screaming out of the closet, then I will.
I started as an inexperienced drag queen with awful makeup serving daiquiris to obnoxious bachelorette parties.
I genuinely had always thought, this sounds dumb, I always thought that ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ was shot in the basement of RuPaul’s house.
RuPaul’s Drag Race’ is my favorite show on television, and I’ve never missed an episode. With season 4, I watched it as if Sharon Needles wasn’t me but was just another character.
Who knows where I would be if I hadn’t gone on Drag Race and gotten that kick in the rear to step it up to the next level?
When ‘Drag Race’ first began, it seemed like a fun window into an underground culture, but over the nine years it has aired, the show has evolved to reflect America’s changing relationship to queer rights and acceptance.
Drag wasn’t really on Broadway. It was considered low-class.
I toured around for years, but the road was always a drag for me. I never made a dime. In fact, I lost a lot of money – it was horrible.
Sen. Rand Paul is a Different Kind of Republican. He will drag the party, kicking and screaming, toward a new kind of conservatism that appeals more to today’s youth, who embrace liberty and are skeptical of foreign intervention.
Well Washington DC what are you going to do. They think the capitol steps are the state of the art in comedy. You try to drag them into the 20th century let alone the 21st and they refuse to come with you.
