Top 50 Michelle Visage Quotes

Style is objective, akin to art, so it varies.

I always tell the parents, ‘You don’t have to approve of your children; you just have to accept them for who they are.’

I always felt ,like, I’ll leave autobiographies to the people who are kind of iconic.

I was raised in a Jewish family, but since I was adopted, my parents sent me to Hebrew school and Bible chapel, so I got the best of both worlds – singing in both a choir in Bible chapel and a chorus in Hebrew school. It shaped me and my voice.

Life is the greatest teacher.

Human lives are human lives.

I was really into punk rock but also into musical theater.

The challenge of ‘Drag Race’ is always the appearance and the challenge. It’s never just the challenge. It’s always the combination.

‘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.

I’m loud and hard and in your face, and I tell the truth, and I think a lot of people fear the truth.

Any time you get to see a bunch of drag queens performing music and performing songs and being idiots, I’m in.

For the kids out there that are worried about what the future holds, especially the LGBTQI+ kids, our brothers and sisters that came before us didn’t fight for nothing. Trust me: we will only move forward, but you need to put your fear aside and find the strength to believe that.

I am a biological female. I have two children. I’ve been married for 16 years. I’ve never been a man.

We love trans women; all of us know that drag wouldn’t be an art form without trans women. I know that, RuPaul knows that, everybody in the gay community knows that. Trans women have always been a part of and the face of drag. And I can guarantee trans women will always be a part of ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race.’

We have to fight for what’s right the same way the brothers and sisters that came before us did. The ultimate example, and there are many others, was The Stonewall Inn. They were pushed until they could take no more.

For red-carpet gowns, Christian Siriano is one of my favourites.

As an adopted kid, it means a lot when I hear women say, ‘I don’t want kids.’ I have a lot of respect for them.

Live life and enjoy it. That’s the real key to beauty!

I’m down for anything. I’ll try anything once. I’m a party girl that way!

I hit the road with a bunch of drag queens every year, sometimes two times a year. Again, as such a fan of drag, it’s the art form that excites me and the longform presentation that they do. So it’s super exciting to be with them, doing what they love to do and doing it well.

You don’t have to give up your dreams in order to earn a living – they can go hand in hand.

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.

Listen, there’s an expiration date for everything, but I mean, we’re not burning out on ‘Top Models,’ are we? We’re not burning out on making things in a ‘Runway’ room, are we? We’re not getting enough ‘Got Talent,’ right? We’ll never run out of talent. So, how could there be a ‘Drag’ burnout?

There are different types of people in this world, and I am the type of person who loves to give.

I try to be happy as much as I can. I’m really not a downer; I hate victims. I hate needy people. I’m that person who always tries to make the best of any situation. I’m probably happiest when I’m with my kids or with a gaggle of gays.

I know television. I’ve done it for a while, and I know that most of the time, you don’t get second chances.

You get one go round in this life. Why are you going to settle for second best when you can get everything you want out of it?

For me, my favorite Mariah Carey songs were never the singles, ever. My favorite Mariah song of all time is ‘Sent From Up Above’ from her first album, or ‘Vanishing,’ songs no one talks about.

I don’t do CDs. I only do radio. That’s the truth.

When I moved to New York City to go college, my mother said, ‘If you want to be recognized, you need to go out to a club.’ Because we didn’t have computers. We didn’t have social media. We didn’t even have cellphones. So you had to go out to be recognized.

There have always been drag queens everywhere.

When I moved to New York, the gay community welcomed me with open arms and told me how beautiful I was. I will never turn my back on them.

I’m too much of a broad; I make men shake in their boots because I have a male dominance in my make-up that makes them feel emasculated.

Dublin is really fun, and Irish people are hilarious.

It’s never too late to reclaim your inner diva and reclaim your inner strength.

Give Good Face is about keeping an air of confidence on the outside and showing everybody that you have what it takes.

If you listen to what I’m saying, there’s always a reason for it. Always. And it always comes from my heart, a place of love.

My mother was incredible.

‘Drag Race’ is the escape that everybody needs – gay, straight, or otherwise.

There are a lot of kids out there that look at me as their mother, and I have my two biological children, and there are so many queens that look at me as an aunt or some sort of confidante, and I can absorb it really well.

I am just forthcoming – completely blunt and honest.

There’s only RuPaul.

I was a theater major, and I remember being in college, and whenever my professor would assign me songs that I hated, I really had a hard time singing them. One time, I even faked sick so I wouldn’t have to sing a song.

Personally, I think what’s happening in my beautiful country is embarrassing, but I also know that Trump doesn’t speak for the majority of us.

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.

Growing up in New Jersey, teen clubs were your life. I’m not kidding! That was it. I was literally tied up five days a week with teen clubs; my parents would drop me off. Like, I didn’t even drive.

I never felt welcome in the heteronormative groups.

I’m the parent of a queer child, and for my kid to know that they can always come to me and I’m going to love them no matter what is the biggest gift.

My humour is spot on.

The Brits know how crazy Adele is. Americans have no clue about Adele and how crazy she is!