Chaz Bono Quotes

Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator.

I'm tired of being around men all the time. I'm going to start a band called Skirt with three girls and I'll play the guitar and sing backing vocals in drag. I went window shopping when I was in New York, saw a lot of amazing dresses.

Most drag impersonations are a drag. But women can like Geraldine, men can like Geraldine, everyone can like Geraldine.

I've only dressed in drag three or four times.

I love wearing drag.

I've played women since I was a kid and I've always enjoyed it.

I'll never forget my interview with Barry Humphries - one of the oddest I've ever done. He insisted that for half the time he appeared as Dame Edna. So I interviewed the real Barry Humphries in a suit and tie, and then I interviewed Edna in full fig in her dressing room, where she criticised Barry mercilessly.

I completely get the drag thing.

I did some research into what was going on in terms of the sexual revolution that was happening in the '60s in the gay community and particularly in the drag world. Before the '60s, guys doing drag would dress like their mothers or iconic Hollywood actresses.

I'm certainly not inventing anything new with drag.

Although drag has a long cultural history in America, it remained largely underground till the late 1980s.

Drag has been featured in popular culture for decades. Movies like 'Kinky Boots,' 'Tootsie,' 'The Birdcage' - even 'Mrs. Doubtfire' - have showcased men, some gay, some not, who dress and perform as women.

In 'Mr Shrimati,' I had a long role as a woman. A cabaret number was also picturised on me. I really worked hard in that film and feel that to date, no man has matched my level when playing a woman.

The audience of 'Drag Race' and the fans of drag queens are often very surprising.

I've been obsessed with David Letterman forever, and I'd love to be the drag version of David Letterman.

I hate drag. It's extremely uncomfortable. It's awful. I'm in a full corset and pads and giant wigs.

I think for many people, they think that being in drag means you want to be a girl. Being trans and doing drag is completely different.

I think part of me would love to play a drag queen, just because it would be an excuse to wear loads of eye makeup.

Certainly people have said a lot of deeply unfortunate and stupid things in Southern accents, but that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the accent itself.

Among other things, drag queens are living testimony to the way women used to want to be, the way some people still want them to be, and the way some women still actually want to be. Drags are ambulatory archives of ideal moviestar womanhood. They perform a documentary service, usually consecrating their lives to keeping the glittering alternative alive and available for (not-too-close) inspection.

I think it [Trouble In Mind] was the only time Divine didn't appear in drag, or certainly one of the few times, anyway. Alan created a time and place that was no time and no place, so it was not identifiable with any particular period or any particular city or any particular country, for that matter. I mean, everybody spoke English, but that was about it. So you couldn't pigeonhole that film.

In this era of political correctness, some people seem unaware that being squeamish about words can mean being blind to realities.

I do not impersonate females! How many women do you know who wear seven inch heels, four foot wigs, and skintight dresses?

If you play men, in a way it's easier. You can have a voicebox, you can have false hair, mustaches, wigs, you can have all kinds of stuff. But when you're playing women playing men, you only really have yourself to work with, plus tiny little extras.

Yes I had to dress up in drag but what fun. And now I feel like a real lady.