Gemma Collins Quotes

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.

No matter what you're doing, whether it's a makeup tutorial or an interview or a lip sync, performance is the essence of drag. It is gender performance. Being able to produce a performance is what a superstar has to do.

Drag artists are more men than real men. You need a lot of courage, personality, and guts to go out there. Even if you look good or you look bad, you still need to have all of those things to be on stage. You're going to get criticized by everyone.

I feel like I'm a drag queen.

I've never done drag, but I'd love to try it.

I consider myself an artist, but instead of paint or clay, my medium is drag. I put so much of myself into my drag from every detail of the costume, makeup and hair to my performance, the way I speak or even stand.

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.'

Yes, I am transgendered but I also am a cross-dresser - I dress as a woman. It's not that I just want to be seen as a female in our society, I'm also a drag queen and a performer - there are many levels there.

I wasn't playing a drag queen - I was playing an extraordinary performer.

I love wearing drag.

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

I'm not 'one of the guys.' I don't want to pretend to be one on stage. I'm not going to dress like a guy or carry myself like one.

I have an inner drag queen. Or rather, I feel like I was a drag queen in a past life.

The crux of drag is outsiders looking in. That's all it is.

I don't dress up as a woman: I dress up as a caricature of a caricature of a woman.

I'm a drag artist, and we put so much effort into creating characters, so the easiest way to show us respect is to call us by the name we gave ourselves and refer to the gender we have chosen to be on stage.

Sometimes I feel like there's a little bit of woman deep down inside of me, that when I put on the drag, she's able to come out.

Most drag queens, they put on music like it's a costume. It's not in their bones. It's not in their background.

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.

I've still never gotten used to myself in drag.

I mean, I'm a drag queen, any excuse to wear a costume means it's going to be a good time.

I was no one, nobody from Nowheresville, until I became a drag queen.

I always did what I thought was interesting. I always just did what caught my fantasy. Looking like a woman, that was never the criteria for me. It was always to do drag. And drag is not gender-specific. Drag is just drag. It's exaggeration.

I started out as being a diva in a golden dress and now to a more bearded drag artist guy in boots.