Words matter. These are the best Sharon Needles Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Gay people in general, I think, like telling secrets because we have to hide a huge secret for the first half of our lives. Why would we want to keep any more?
I was such a bizarre conundrum of everything that makes you worry about a child. I was a bad student. I got picked on a lot. I loved horror movies.
Drag queens don’t work well outside. We’re designed for spotlights, not sunlight.
I wrote my first album almost as an entitled child. ‘Taxidermy’ is written by a much more precarious, untrusting adult.
I’ve always loved Salem, and I love the title of Scream Queen.
Call Me On The Ouija Board’ is homage not just to horror movies involving children, but my favorites as a child.
Monster Mash’ is one of those great, throwback Halloween songs.
I’m obsessed with media and news. I could watch it all day.
Love is the one thing everyone is looking for, and death is the one thing everyone’s running from.
I find doppelgangers terrifying… can you imagine two of me?! Now that’s scary!
I think that the attraction to camp is its irreverence, it’s strange, it in no way reflects reality while using real characters.
I was really into the bimbo archetype that filled late 80s-early 90s TV when I was growing up. You know, women circling the want ads with nail polish, Rhonda Shear from ‘U.S.A. Up All Night,’ Peggy Bundy.
Drag culture has always been about excess.
It sounds odd, but it’s almost hard to find a piece of negative press about myself.
After I went on ‘Drag Race,’ I was allowed to do so many things. I was allowed to do theater, commercial work, television work, modeling, fashion design, and it was great. But the thing with reality television fame is that it’s got a pretty quick expiration date.
My concept is drag queens are not a reflection of society, they are a fun house reflection of society where we bend, and twist and manipulate the anxieties we all feel.
Well I grew up in a small town in Iowa and there weren’t a lot of imaginative and fun outlets for kids of my caliber, so pretty much my mom’s closet and any large pieces of fabric in the Halloween box were my favorite toys.
When your hobby becomes a full-time job that pays you and the people around you, it’s not fun anymore.
I think the reason people are propping up drag queens is because it’s popular with the fans that identify with them, so we’re great for marketing. We’re not allowed to be the Christmas tree, we’re just allowed to be the decorations, and I still think we’re looked at as clowns by a majority of the society.
The thing about fame is, you want it your whole life, but no matter how bright you are, no one ever asks themselves why they want fame. You never really know what it is until you have it. You can never tangibly feel your own fame.
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!
Campy films almost create real-life cartoons.
I found my first picture of Amanda Lepore online in fashion magazines. It was the most beautiful thing that I had ever seen in my life. I thought nothing could trump the perfection of that photograph.
Any younger person – let’s say if you’re over the age of 30, Pride is a great excuse to go day-drinking. But no one forgets their first Pride and how much they felt that they were included and that the future was bright.
Jason Voorhees was a kid who was picked on at summer camp, and Michael Myers was someone vilified by his own family. I think that’s why gay people like horror movies, because it’s seeking revenge on the privileged.
I like work that pushes the barrier of bad taste.
In the past, when I lacked designer duds, I simply relied on my hot glue gun.
It seems like no one has friends in New York, they just have collaborators or co-workers.
If you were to come in to my house, I have archived every fan letter I’ve ever been given, boxes and boxes and boxes and boxes of them.
Once you are in full Sharon Needles mode, you don’t feel fear, you don’t feel physical pain, and you also don’t feel your own moral filter any longer.
I went into ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ saying, ‘I’ll never cry.’ Because they make fun of every queen that cries on the show. And I did cry, and I did scream, and I did have doubt, and I did have great, victorious moments.
I like money but I love performance art and it goes hand in hand. I’m not the ‘Titanic,’ I’m ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show.’ I’m not a blockbuster, I’m a cult classic. I think my strong but cult-like fanbase expects me to challenge norms.
Love is a universal thing that everyone understands. Love, like death, is the only thing that binds humanity.
I’m obsessed with celebrities and fame. I always will be.
My brain is a great fashion designer. Unfortunately, I don’t have the skills to do it.
When most kids were hiding their eyes or cowering under the covers, I was three inches away from the television when horror movies were played.
I could talk about myself for hours!
A drag queen on time is not a drag queen.
Sometimes when I’m working with RuPaul, I can’t even look at her without feeling so emotional about the process I went through, and what was before the competition and what happened in my life after, and what it’s done to millions of gay disenfranchised freaky kids.
I love Halloween. I mean, yes, I consider every day to be Halloween, but it’s a very special day for me.
Two people live within me. One’s a very savvy businessperson; the other’s a party girl.
The secret to a great Halloween costume, and I can’t stress this enough, is in my opinion is to extract sexuality out of your costume.
I’m kind of a hokey-jokey, campy idiot in black lipstick, but when it comes to my music, I take it very seriously.
I can’t speak for all queens, but Sharon Needles is definitely a different entity from me as Aaron Coady.
In the entertainment industry women are often judged. They judge bigger women, they judge black women, and older women too. We just don’t do that in drag. Drag is open to everyone, regardless of gender, body shape or age.
Some people say, ‘Oh you’re a weird queen. You’re a punk queen.’ All queens are weird! I don’t care if you’re in a sickening gown or dressed as an octopus. You are treating every day as if it were Halloween. You are donning a character and a persona that isn’t real.
Love is a universal, attractive element. And other than death, love is the one thing that binds all of humanity.
A man in a dress can get away with a lot.
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.
When I wrote ‘PG-13,’ I had just won ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race,’ all my nightmares had come true, and I was a brat. I was a privileged brat overnight.
