I think if you buy the 'Christmas Queens 2' album, there will be songs you love and songs you hate, just like every other album.

When you go into a show, you pray it's successful, but you just don't know what's going to happen.

I'm loud and hard and in your face, and I tell the truth, and I think a lot of people fear the truth.

I'm an intimidating figure.

I get tons of emails every day from a lot of gays and young girls asking for help with their self-confidence and to heal and to feel. Even though I'm not an equipped social worker, I think the mom presence that I have makes them feel safe.

My husband's my soul mate. At the same time, RuPaul's my soul mate.

There have always been drag queens everywhere.

There's only RuPaul.

I always tell the parents, 'You don't have to approve of your children; you just have to accept them for who they are.'

I always felt ,like, I'll leave autobiographies to the people who are kind of iconic.

Give Good Face is about keeping an air of confidence on the outside and showing everybody that you have what it takes.

You can all get what you want to get, and so my journey was to show you how many times along the way adversity has stared me right in the face, and I've looked it right back and said, 'No.'

I got involved in the underground world known as ballroom culture, and I used to walk a category called 'face,' and it was a very heavily Latino culture - it's black and Latino - and they used to call me 'cara,' which means face in Spanish, so I started putting 'cara' on everything: hats, jackets.

I'm too much of a broad; I make men shake in their boots because I have a male dominance in my make-up that makes them feel emasculated.

I love creating. I love being with creative people who can think quickly on their feet.

I think we've seen every type of drag come across the stage of 'RuPaul's Drag Race,' and there is no end in sight of what can be on the stage.

You can't get anything gayer than 'RuPaul's Drag Race!'

I was really into punk rock but also into musical theater.

When I moved to New York City to go college, my mother said, 'If you want to be recognized, you need to go out to a club.' Because we didn't have computers. We didn't have social media. We didn't even have cellphones. So you had to go out to be recognized.

When I grew up where I grew up, things were very, very different, and nobody had a filter. And that's what brought us together.

My mother was incredible.

My parents both worked; I was a 'latchkey kid.' We were lower-middle class, and they did everything that they could to give me anything I wanted, within reason. We were not rich by any stretch of the imagination, but being an adopted kid, I think we had a different connotation. My parents tried extra hard, I think.

For red-carpet gowns, Christian Siriano is one of my favourites.

I was raised in New York, so that's the greatest city in the world to me, but if you take that out of the equation, then London is my favourite city, and I'm a huge fan of Dublin as well.

Dublin is really fun, and Irish people are hilarious.

I am just forthcoming - completely blunt and honest.

If you listen to what I'm saying, there's always a reason for it. Always. And it always comes from my heart, a place of love.

I moved to New York City in the '80s to be an actress and to be on Broadway. That was always my dream.

I have people who love me and people that I love and a man that I love. So in that sense, I feel that I'm pretty well rounded.

I thoroughly enjoy a good hot bath. That is my ultimate luxury.

I'm not a fashion victim, and I don't closely follow trends. I dress the way I feel comfortable because, at the end of the day, you have to be comfortable.

It can only be true love when you enable your other half to be better, to be the person they're destined to be.

When you love someone, you don't try to change them.

To be a geisha, you have to have to an iron-clad layer around you - around your physical body and your heart.

Body language is more fascinating to me than actual language.

If you read a lot of Chinese literature, there has always been very strong women figures - warriors, swordswomen - who defended honor and loyalty with the men. So, it's not new to our culture - it's always been very much a part of it. It's good that now the Western audience would have a different image of the Chinese women.

This world belongs to all of us, and all sexes should be able to live in respect and harmony.

I gravitate towards roles where women find strength in very difficult, uncompromising situations but maintain clarity in mind, discipline at heart, and a certain strength in spirit.

Action shouldn't just be seeing all those crashes. You can blow up a cathedral; next time you blow up the Great Wall of China, and then what? But when you're in love with your characters, the smallest action becomes an important action.

Sometimes when I'm on the phone, someone will say, 'Yes, Mr. Yeoh.' And I'm thinking, 'I'm not Mr. Yeoh, man.'

I want to be there for all those who are left behind in this world, whether it's because they are born poor, born a woman, or born in an area affected by devastation.

I kick and punch quite hard, and it surprises people.

We have to make movies where we do not think this is for the American market or this is for the Chinese market. We have to make a good movie that anyone would just want to sit down and watch because love, language, culture transcend everything.

It's very important for us all to understand that we are interconnected and we need to hold hands together, especially when the going gets tough.

For an actress, everything is always fine - you are looked after, you have your trailer, and everything provided. But the crew are the ones out there in the wilds all the time, hours before and after us.

I love action films, and to be able to put together 'Silver Hawk' was so exciting.

For me, the director is the most important thing. He is steering the boat. If you don't trust him, you won't be able to give him your all.

For me, beauty comes from natural happiness. I think that a woman glows, and a man, even, when they're healthy and they're happy.

I was struck by Suu Kyi's warmth and generosity. No matter how petite she looks, she exudes amazing strength. More than anything else, I felt like I already knew her, like she was an old friend, because I'd been watching her so intently, and she was exactly what I had figured she would be.

Martial arts is just practice. Being a geisha requires complete control.