RuPaul Quotes

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

I have taken a good look at myself loads of times.

I have never dissected my personal life. What sense would it make?

The bigger confrontation is the one an individual has with itself.

The searching for our selves is the most agonizing, isn't it? - and yet the most stimulating - and one simply cannot escape it.

I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.

When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.

I work because I have issues and questions and feelings and thoughts that I want to have a look at. I'm not in need of, or wanting, particularly, to know what other folk are up to.

I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.

I'm not going to lie, there are more interesting ways to spend your time than answering questions about yourself. But if there were no questions to ask me, I might have a beef with that.

Much of the time, we're transfixed by all of the ways we can reflect ourselves into the world. And we can barely find the time to reflect deeply back in on our own selves.

The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'

I've always done more than I ever thought I would. Becoming a professor - I never would have imagined that. Writing books - I never would have imagined that. Getting a Ph.D. - I'm not sure I would even have imagined that. I've lived my life a step at a time. Things sort of happened.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange.

This was possible only by dint of extended periods of frequently quite painful reflection and digestion.

I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally.

It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.

I think a lot of Magnum was me.

The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

Over time, it's occurred to me that my protagonists all originate in some aspect of myself that I find myself questioning or feeling uncomfortable about.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

I study myself more than any other subject; it is my metaphysic, and my physic.