"If you don't get something, don't spend your time wallowing. Just move on and then speak up for the next thing, and hope that you're involved in that."
"Showing up is like 90 percent of the battle, and just make sure your hair is really cute."
"My parents let me get my outfit in the gayest place possible, the 'International Male Catalog.' They sold mostly speedos and thongs and clubwear, and I was like, I'm getting that sheer shirt with the dragon on it, and then those vinyl patent leather pants and the cheetah platform boots."
"One of the most flattering things is when other people are seeing what you're doing and then replicating that kind of thing."
"I'm trying to take drag back to its down-and-dirty roots where people get offended at first, and then they're like, 'Oh my God, this crazy queen.'"
"I just want to be like a little bit of Bluto from 'Animal House,' mixed with like some amazing diva like RuPaul."
"If I die tomorrow I could die happy, because this feels like possibly the biggest thing I'll ever do in my career, and I'm fine with that. I get to be in a movie with Gaga."
"I'm just taking it one day at a time. Actually, one night at a time. I'm not usually up during the day."
"I have nothing but respect for RuPaul, but it's impossible for me to be happy working with people who don't treat others the way they want to be treated."
"My priority is my happiness."
"If you put drag in front of anything, it inherently makes it more fun. So mashing up films with cult followings with drag queens is a natural fit for a good time."
"I'm not complaining at all but 'A Star Is Born' hasn't helped my career in like, opportunity terms."
"And who wouldn't want to date Jonathan Bennett, right?"
"Rocky Horror Picture Show' was my gateway drag/drug. I was somewhere between 13 and 16 when I started going to that."
"I had a drag mom but she didn't really teach me about makeup. She just basically stuck me into gigs. And then I borrowed clothes from her and her drag to play the gigs."
"I was an awful child. And now I'm an awful adult."
"I like meeting people, cause they tell me I'm pretty, and I just have to say thank you a lot."
"I'm a drag queen. I want colors that get attention. The world does not need another palette with eight tans and a blue."
"I'm from the North. We didn't have Chick-fil-A."
"My opinion is not valuable to the general public."
"I am no one's role model."
"What other people think of me isn't any of my business but it's nice when people say nice things."
"My grandma spelled my name wrong until she died. Like literally, birthday cards, mail, everything."
"I mean, I find drama to be engaging and it makes your blood pressure go up and you keep watching, but it's not as entertaining as, say, comedy."
"The next RuPaul is an actor, a singer, a personality, not someone who can just get up at a bar. So I'm looking to do all those things."
