Top 55 Bob the Drag Queen Quotes

Activism doesn’t always mean laying in the streets and getting arrested and shouting ‘hell no, we won’t go’ at the top of your lungs.

Dreams really do come true, which sounds so cheesy but it’s really true.

Not only does the title ‘We’re Here’ highlight the fact that me, Shangela, and Eureka are here, but we as a queer community, we were already here. We were already existing in your space before these drag queens showed up with a big purse bus.

When I’m getting ready, I listen to Celine Dion’s live version of ‘I’m Alive,’ where she keeps talking to everyone throughout the whole thing.

When I first started traveling for gigs, I knew I wanted to create some online content.

People like Donald Trump because he embodies the things that they have in themselves that they don’t want to say. He’s racist.

Sometimes I’m happy, sometimes I’m sad.

We need more Black, cisgender straight men to be willing to come out and say: ‘I stand with Black trans people.’

You don’t get to tell people why they can’t be offended. That’s not how that works.

There’s a narrative that anyone who goes out and chooses a family must have been thrown to the curb and stomped down to the ground by their families at home. That’s not always the case, but sometimes you just need love from people who have extremely similar experiences.

When I got the phone call that I was going to be on ‘Drag Race’ I thought I was going to win. I thought I was going to win ‘Drag Race’ before I was even cast. I’m not even being funny. I’m being serious.

I actually really love the taste of a very sugary coffee; I’m one of those folks who is like, ‘I would like a little coffee with my creamer.’

No one lives their lives not making jokes about things.

I love keeping busy.

I clean up real nice.

I’m a big fan of World of Wonder in general. They really are the queens of queer culture.

I have watched Peppermint for years and I know how smart and clever and funny she can be with a lip-sync.

My Blackness, my queerness, my gayness, my inability to shut the hell up – these are all things that have really worked for me.

Tidicue is not my real last name. It’s just T-D-Q, as in ‘The Drag Queen.’

The point of pride is to go out and celebrate life, including the lives of those who fought for us to get where we are.

If you need help with your mental health do not seek drag as a therapy, go to your therapist.

Ben Nye is bussin’. Bussin’! It is genuinely great makeup, but because people think that it’s just for plays, they don’t consider it.

Girl, it costs money to make content, so it should cost money to consume. If you want it, you should have to pay for it. That’s life.

I have to get my stuff made custom if I want my gown to touch the floor, my sleeves to touch my wrist.

I hate the term ‘the future of drag.’ It’s so silly.

That’s what Pride really is: A chance for people who are extremely queer to feel, once-a-year, extremely normal.

My whole life I’ve been purse first.

For me, success doesn’t feel weird; it feels right. When I wasn’t on TV, I was like, this is the weird part.

I listen to ‘This American Life,’ ‘Serial,’ ‘S-Town,’ ‘Feast of Fun.’ I listened to ‘What’s the Tee?’ And that has really helped me throughout my entire drag career – podcasts have been a mainstay in my life as a drag artist.

Listen, there is no equality without the loss of power. Someone is going to have to lose power. That is really uncomfortable for some people to actually think about, but in order for marginalized people to gain power, white, cisgender, straight, people are going to have to lose some and that’s just how it is.

You can celebrate pride, by lifting up what Black queer people have given us.

I’ve never been a straight guy, but it certainly seems that being one is exhausting. Every part of a straight guy’s day is somehow related to him letting people know that he’s straight.

I always wanted to stay true to myself.

Well, I got into the business to make people laugh and to entertain people. I’ve always loved the idea that I could make someone happy and help someone really enjoy their day.

I do my best to surround myself with queer people. I don’t go to straight bars and it’s quite frankly because I don’t feel comfortable there.

I don’t scare very easily.

I went to school for acting. I am from the theater, darling.

If queer people are nothing, we are strong.

Queer clubs are safe spaces because no one’s judging you for what the rest of the world is judging you for there.

I make fun of a lot of stuff I shouldn’t make fun of.

I’m basic. If it’s Sia, I’m gonna like it. Her voice is great. She’s ruining her voice though, the way she sings.

Drag music is music. And it’s okay for me to call it drag music because for me that has value.

I like to, you know, add a little bit of my expression into my coffee – I was really doing French Vanilla for a minute, but I realized that the International Delight Caramel Macchiato: She’s the girl for me.

Everyone loves good dressing room drama. But nothing beats main stage drama!

I felt that society had told me out loud clearly and in no unclear terms, that there were several aspects of my personality, my life, my body, and my existence that were quite worthless. And then I found a community that said, ‘No, girl. You’re actually nailing it. All these things are great.’

Honestly, drag queens are embedded within every part of queer culture.

After drag, I remove lashes, then remove most makeup with a Ponds Moisture Clean Exfoliating Towelette. If I don’t have a moist one on the road, I will use a dried-out makeup wipe by rewetting it with water.

My dad’s name is ‘The Drag Queen.’

When I auditioned for ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race,’ I said I’m gonna get on ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race,’ I’m gonna win it and it won’t be the most impressive thing I’ve ever done.

Confidence has not always been something I had in my whole life. But when I found it? Man you don’t have to be confident in every area of your life. Just grab something you’re confident about, and if you coast on that it’ll spill over to other areas in your life. Confidence is contagious, you know?

I’ve been a drag queen in public for a while now.

It’s okay to say you’re doing well in the time of tragedy.

I have a direct hand in the queer zeitgeist, and what I’m putting out there has to be something I’m proud of.

Not living in fear is a form of activism.

We paint small town America with a really broad stroke. There’s a lot more nuance to these towns than, I think, the world knows.