Top 60 RuPaul Quotes

I haven’t found a heel that’s been too high for me yet.

We are all doing drag. Every single person on this planet is doing it.

I have always worked and did my work on the fringe, where I have feel very comfortable.

I’ve lived my whole life in the life – I’ve lived my whole life doing the thing, I’ve been doing my own thing. And I think my life speaks volumes about what one must do.

I’m not religious, but I do pray. It’s 60 seconds of meditation, visualizing myself, looking at myself, and being conscious of my own consciousness. That will align me for the rest of the day.

I remember being 14 years old, making a pact with myself. I would never join into the matrix, never join into the status quo, and I would always fight it. It always felt like I was on an operating table and the anesthesia never worked.

Usually, people who don’t have a broad perspective see gay people as servants – as people who are there to make them look good.

‘The Wizard of Oz’ is my favourite. It explains what life on this planet is about. Although Dorothy reaches Oz, she finds she had what she needed to go back to Kansas all along, but the Good Witch tells her that she had to learn it for herself. All of the answers to the meaning of life are there.

My spiritual practice reminds me of what’s really real, what’s really hood.

I started out in this business in rock and roll bands and stumbled into drag. Drag just happened to be my vehicle for my creativity. So, you know, it’s afforded me the opportunity to create new shows, to make music.

My focus is on love and inclusiveness.

This is an important thing: People who live in the mainstream and the status quo think that everyone else is there to serve them.

People can identify as however you want to. Right on. Go for it. But my strategy in this bigger game of life is to not identify as anything.

We encrypt ‘Drag Race’ with the secret language that kept gay people linked for many years before the ’80s.

Doing drag in a male-dominant culture is an act of treason. It’s the most punk-rock thing you can do.

Drag is involved with changing identities and not taking identities too seriously at all. That’s why drag is such a hard sell to a network – or anyone, really – because it’s up against the ego.

Unfortunately, in our culture, one person can write a letter to the network, and they shut something down. It’s unfortunate.

I love games. My favorite thing on this planet to do is to play games. And if you don’t enjoy games, then you’re really missing the point of what this life is.

Drag is really about reminding people that you are more than you think you are – you are more than what it says on your passport.

I love the creativity and the social and political aspects of drag.

I loved ‘Carol.’ I thought it was a beautiful film.

I don’t think there is a life in the mundane 9-to-5 hypocrisy. That’s not living.

I’m ambitious. I work hard.

I love Ashford & Simpson, and I love the Brothers Gibb. They are amazing.

It’s hard to get intimate with an audience.

It’s a neutralizing mantra to say to everybody, ‘I come in peace.’ I come in peace. That’s why it’s important.

If you’re upset by something I said, you have bigger problems than you think.

I go to the gym at five in the morning and then go do a hike.

The secret of success in every field is redefining what success means to you. It can’t be your parent’s definition, the media’s definition, or your neighbor’s definition. Otherwise, success will never satisfy you.

I’ve always idolized people who can write songs.

In our subconscious, we all know we’re playing roles.

Personally, I experience success when I enjoy what I’m doing. I love the creative process, even if the end result isn’t embraced by anyone else.

If you look at their voting habits and their eating habits, you realize people are stupid.

From childhood, we’re trained to be a certain way, to behave a certain way – so that the power base can control us, really. And punk and drag are completely outside of that.

I feel like I’ve won every year the show has been picked up by Logo because, really, nothing beats a paycheck.

I’m a pop victim. I love pop music; I love pop culture. I love Olivia Newton-John.

We humans are still a very primitive culture, and it’s one of the traps we’ve fallen into over the course of our lives – to forget our history. That’s why George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ is so profound. It chronicles our short memory.

Having an automobile in Los Angeles enables me to change clothes at least three times a day: I will go from western wear to nautical to Savile Row in the course of 12 hours.

It’s very easy to look at the world and think this is all so cruel and so mean. It’s important to not become bitter from it.

For my tribe, the people I found years ago, we’ve found sanctuary in the irreverent, in the off-center, in the quirky… And that’s how we stay entertained, and that’s how we stay engaged in what would otherwise seem to be a really cruel world. A really harsh world.

My love life has never been of interest to people. Of course I have a love life; I have a real life outside of show business.

It’s important to find your tribe.

For both men and women, an eyelash curler is a must. It gives your eye the appearance of being well-rested and wide open.

All things to do with drag are inherently therapeutic because the realization of your own insanity is the beginning of sanity.

The only time you will ever see me in drag is when I am – What? Getting paid. It is my job.

My number one tip for all people, not just drag queens, is false eyelashes, which make every look go from daytime to glamazon!

It’s true in everything, not just in drag: To be a success, you have to understand the landscape. You have to know thyself, and you have to know your history so that you can draw from people who have figured out the equation you are faced with. It’s not rocket science.

I had mentors, growing up in gay life – older gay men who told me about our history and the history of art and culture – but somehow, the younger generation missed out on that synergy.

Young people need to know there are ways for them to navigate this life.

I think our culture is moving forward – slowly. And also, as we move forward, we’re witnessing some of the old stalwarts rejecting that forward motion.

Life is not to be taken seriously.

In my life, I’ve been able to really examine society in a way most people who aren’t outsiders don’t get a chance to do.

There are so many sensitive souls; they don’t know what to do with their feelings.

Once you clear out from your consciousness things that no longer matter, you’re able to make room for other things.

The whole point is to live life and be – to use all the colors in the crayon box.

When I go out, I’m always dressed up. Not in drag but always prepared to be ‘on.’ Just in case somebody’s going to take a picture. Everyone has a Facebook page, so no matter what, I’m prepared to service the public.

I think this life is hard without assistance from others.

Drag queens have always taken on that role of spilling the tea – and the tea is the emperor has no clothes!

Throughout my life, I have always believed in love; I’ve always put my heart in love. But I’ve seen fear take people so often. It’s very scary.

I’ve always been drawn to people who dance to the beat of a different drum; it didn’t matter if they were in film or music or fashion.