I’ve been the queen of dysfunction and made every mistake one can make.
Sometimes if you’re dealing with straight interviewers they’re a little more excited if you’re in drag: ‘Oooh! Aaaah! Eeeee!’ But if you’re just sitting there out of drag, they think you’re just a bitter queen.
If I could pick a dream job it would be sitting in a room with a fabulous drag queen chatting about ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race.’
Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference.
The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
In France, I would like to worth with Patrice Chereau, who made ‘Queen Margot.’
A drag queen is one that usually goes to a ball and that’s the only time she gets dressed up. Transvestites live in drag. A transsexual spends most of her life in drag.
I didn’t have a desk to write ‘Red Queen’ on, so I got a nice writing desk.
If you were supposed to be a drag queen, and that’s what you wanted to do, you’d be doing it already, you wouldn’t be in my DMs asking me how to do so. When I started I was ugly, but I didn’t think I was ugly. You have to not dream it, but be it – that’s it.
Milk Bar is a quirky American bakery, where the original inspiration is the humble beginnings of American-style baked goods and loving trips to Dairy Queen.
I can remember being very keen to go to drama school at the age of eight, and practising ballet in my bedroom to Queen soundtracks.
I never said, I am just a beauty queen or just an actress.
I met the Queen, the Pope, and we went all over Europe and Asia. I just wish I was older when I did all this. Then I could appreciate it more.
I am known as the gossip queen on sets!
I was homecoming queen. I was star of my basketball team.
I was invited to see Queen at Wembley – I think it was the last tour they did, and then afterwards, they had a huge party, which I was invited to – it was all thanks to EastEnders.
People want to see me as a posh square, so I’ll play an East End drag queen or a young man with a cleft palate.
In no way are King Booker and Queen Sharmell the power couple in WWE.
I think baking cookies is equal to Queen Victoria running an empire. There’s no difference in how seriously you take the job, how seriously you approach your whole life.
I woke up one morning to find I was famous. I bought a white Rolls-Royce and drove down Sunset Boulevard, wearing dark specs and a white suit, waving like the Queen Mum.
There’s a difference between being a drag queen on TV where the masses can tune in and watch, and then at a nightclub where you have to be a certain age to get in. There’s a different decorum. We’re all trying to push boundaries, but also trying to stay in our lane.
My private life has never been a secret. I’ve never been a closet queen.
I am not in favour of hierarchies that grant privileges to members who fail to uphold those values – there are plenty of those – but the monarchy is really the Queen, who is of unimpeachable integrity and the longest serving head of state in the world, and who never puts a foot wrong.
Especially as a title-holder, you can do great things with charities, because people suddenly care about what you have to say. I wanted to make a difference, which is why I created the Queen of the Universe pageant. I want to change all of those stigmas in the beauty pageant world.
Being an actor only came about because Arnaud Desplechin, the guy who did ‘Kings and Queen’, had this curious idea to think that I could be an actor, but I had never acted before, and I was supposed to direct my own film!
I realized that a lot of the things I had been telling myself about not being good enough just weren’t true, and ‘Queen of Denmark’ gave me the chance to prove to myself that I could do something real.
My mom choreographed the top Olympians; she’s really the queen of ice in her world, so I kind of get my directorial bug from her because she’s really good at telling people what to do!
I’ve nothing against the Queen personally. I had lunch at the Palace once upon a time.
The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.
I had a non-existent knowledge of Queen Victoria’s early years. Like everyone else, I thought of her as an old lady dressed in black. My mom had told me about her, though, that she had a very loving relationship with Albert, that they had lots of kids, and that he died young.
It’s no stretch to picture me standing next to Al Pacino or Robert De Niro. Those are ethnic New York men. I’m an ethnic New York girl. Everybody has their limitations. I mean, I should never be cast as Queen Elizabeth.
Always tip a drag queen. If they’re good, they deserve it. And if they’re bad, at least they’ll go away after that buck.
She’s my mother and the Queen.
The King and Queen made the rounds after the film. We were told how we were to respond, and we were in a semi circle in the lounge area of the cinema, they came around after the King, the Queen and both Princesses.
In my head I feel like I’m a female transgender to male but also like a drag queen.
It would be good to see what the Queen gets up to at Buckingham Palace. I bet she spends her whole time watching ‘Coronation Street.’
Originally, I wanted a pop career and formed a girl-band ‘Genie Queen’ managed by Andy McClusky from ‘Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark’, but it didn’t work out. My brother John is the talented singer and song-writer with ‘The Razz,’ while my other brother Sean is a footballer for Telford United.
I always said if I played a drag queen, I’d want to create a template with the realness they talk about in ‘Paris Is Burning.’
There are certain historical figures of such importance that we need to know everything about them, which is why books about Napoleon, Lincoln, Julius Caesar, Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth I, and the great religious founders continue to proliferate; these lives require constant reevaluation and interpretation.
The queen of aggregation is, of course, Arianna Huffington, who has discovered that if you take celebrity gossip, adorable kitten videos, posts from unpaid bloggers and news reports from other publications, array them on your Web site and add a left-wing soundtrack, millions of people will come.
There is a fun, flippant side to me, of course. But I would much rather be known as the Ice Queen.
I was reading William Shawcross’s biography of the Queen Mother, dressed in my witch outfit! And you know what? It was a really good mix; it was a therapeutic mix.
Hire me for the next picture. I don’t have to just play down-and-out trailer trash and mean, old, wicked, old nuns. I could play a princess or a queen. That’s all I wanted to do. Because campaigning does go on. It’s a part of selling the film.
My mother was a beauty queen in her hey day. That’s where I learnt a little about makeup and hair… I had never picked up or even seen a ‘Vogue’ before I was 17. I had no idea about fashion, magazines, models or designers. No idea.
I would love to grab roles like the ones my mom did in ‘Oppol’ or the role Kangana Ranaut played in ‘Queen.’
Sometimes I look at Helen Mirren on stage and think, ‘You really are the Queen.’ You see people bowing to her at the stage door!
The Queen and Electric Light Orchestra harmonies are so distinct and fit in our songs so well sometimes, but we don’t know how to do them properly.
You never remember what you say to the Queen, she just has this aura about her.
I’ve been asked that question lots of time before, why wasn’t I on Live Aid? And quite frankly I don’t know. I was riding high in the charts and the styles of music they had were quite varied from Adam Ant to Status Quo to Queen. I would have definitely fitted in.
Ever since Sushmita Sen and Aishwarya Rai made headlines, every other girl in India wants to be a beauty queen. I was no exception.
I don’t think I’m ever going to get to the point where people run across a freeway to take a picture of me. I really don’t see it getting to that level of hysteria unless I have an affair with the Queen of Sweden or something like that.
They call me garbage queen at home, because I’m extremely particular about reduce, reuse and recycle.
As a politician, I felt like a servant, but in the film industry, I feel like a queen.
My team or I didn’t enjoy any administrative authority in the creative role play for the Telugu version of ‘Queen.’
I was prom queen, and the year before, I was prom king. It was kind of the same; you just got a differently shaped crown.
Kitty Wells was the first and only Queen of Country Music, no matter what they call the rest of us. She was a great inspiration to me as well as every other female singer in the country music business. In addition to being a wonderful asset to country music, she was a wonderful woman.
At first glance, Martha Stewart, queen of artfully distressed home furnishings, might not seem to have much in common with Michael R. Milken, one-time king of junk bonds.
I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people.
