Michelle Visage Quotes

I think that drag, being mainstream, it's such a wonderful thing because even my sister, years ago, they thought it was so taboo and didn't understand it, or maybe they thought, 'Justin, do you want to be a woman?' and I'm like, 'No, Alyssa's my character.'

It's so beautiful that drag is able to speak to so many different types of people.

The truth is I do take drag really seriously, and I think that there's kind of a place for that - to see it as this political and historical art form, and to want to continue pushing it in new directions. And also honor the old directions as well. So I'm sort of like a drag intellectual/drag queen.

Drag wasn't always counterculture.

Drag has always been an open space where anyone within the LGBT community can express their creativity.

I think every city and every drag queen has a different aesthetic or set up, but in the end, it's mutual respect for one another.

I didn't invent the bearded lady. It's been around for ages, and there are so many bearded drag queens out there - but they're not in the mainstream as I am.

'Drag Race' really offered me a platform to have a lot of people listen to what I have to show them, and I want to showcase the whole community I know.

I've done drag many, many years, but TV is a huge, powerful thing.

'Drag Race' doesn't claim to represent drag as a whole. 'Drag Race' is a reality show. If you see real drag shows, we just do drag and respect each other's art and who your real identity is - name, gender, hair color, anything.

I wanted to be a drag queen so badly. I'll bet I still own more wigs than any drag queen - I love me a wig.

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.'

If I hadn't been a woman, I'd be a drag queen for sure. I like all that flair and I'd be dressing up in them high heels and putting on the big hair. I'd be like Ru Paul.

I love drag queens and they love me.

I love drag queens... they perform me better than I ever could myself.

I hope that people look at Brooklyn as kind of a drag utopia, because that's what it's been in my experience - all genders and bodies and ages doing drag.

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've changed as a person because of the art of drag.

Drag is never going to be completely mainstream because it's still a queer art form.

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.'

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.

I don't socialize in drag anymore. If I'm in drag, I'm usually onstage or in the dressing room or in a car service.

There is something about the art form and about drag entertainers that is very uplifting.

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.

For so many years women have reached out to drag entertainers asking for help or advice with their style, makeup or they just want to be our friends.