I'm a pop victim. I love pop music; I love pop culture. I love Olivia Newton-John.

Everybody is in drag.

I think our culture is moving forward - slowly. And also, as we move forward, we're witnessing some of the old stalwarts rejecting that forward motion.

People can identify as however you want to. Right on. Go for it. But my strategy in this bigger game of life is to not identify as anything.

There are so many sensitive souls; they don't know what to do with their feelings.

It's very easy to look at the world and think this is all so cruel and so mean. It's important to not become bitter from it.

I go to the gym at five in the morning and then go do a hike.

If you grow up in show business, you look beyond the looking glass. So, all of the surface facades get broken.

My love life has never been of interest to people. Of course I have a love life; I have a real life outside of show business.

Drag is there to remind culture not to take itself too seriously. All of this is illusion.

I've cried my eyes out and wanted to end it all before. I hope everybody's gone that far, because it makes life rich.

I love the creativity and the social and political aspects of drag.

I'm ambitious. I work hard.

From childhood, we're trained to be a certain way, to behave a certain way - so that the power base can control us, really. And punk and drag are completely outside of that.

I've been very blessed, and that has not escaped me.

We encrypt 'Drag Race' with the secret language that kept gay people linked for many years before the '80s.

Life is not to be taken seriously.

I haven't found a heel that's been too high for me yet.

If you've worked in a factory, and you haven't learned how to do something else, you're obsolete. That's just nature.

I've never personally differentiated a person who dressed up in a three-piece suit and goes to Wall Street from a person who dresses up in a polyester uniform and works at McDonalds. I think it's all drag.

This is an important thing: People who live in the mainstream and the status quo think that everyone else is there to serve them.

I feel like I've won every year the show has been picked up by Logo because, really, nothing beats a paycheck.

I've always been ambitious. I've always been able to roll up my sleeves and get to work. I like to stay busy. I love working, and I love being creative.

In our subconscious, we all know we're playing roles.

I think this life is hard without assistance from others.

For both men and women, an eyelash curler is a must. It gives your eye the appearance of being well-rested and wide open.

I enjoy being creative.

The only person I look up to - and not just in show business but also in the world - is a little lady named Judge Judy! Honestly.

If you look at their voting habits and their eating habits, you realize people are stupid.

People don't know how to place me in their consciousness. They think, 'Oh, you must be here to make me look good. That's what gay guys are, right? You're an accessory for my straight life.' Just because your limited view is that everyone's there to serve you and that you're the only person in the world. It doesn't work that way.

Drag breaks the fourth wall, which is why it's never been quite accepted, because nobody wants to be told that they are really a caricature of themself and to not take yourself too seriously.

I think drag is universal, no matter who does it. I mean, yeah, I am homosexual, but I think everybody likes to toy with their image. I love those guys. I love Milton Berle and Flip Wilson and all those people.

There's not another lip-synch song on the planet, in the history of lip-synching songs, that has been lip-synched more than 'I Will Survive.'

Once you clear out from your consciousness things that no longer matter, you're able to make room for other things.

I'm only really interested in taking a part if it's nothing like me.

My auditions for drama school were miserable, but one thing I had on my side, although I had no experience or skill or training, was that I wanted to learn everything.

I like Scottish people because they feel very true. They're always level and straight. They get a reputation for being hardened because of it, but I find them to be scrupulously honest people.

I don't think the idea of working in Hollywood really exists anymore. I think you work in films, and where the film is shot is where it's shot. The studio system doesn't really exist.

I really love living in cities where the people living above, below and next to you are from totally different worlds to you.

I don't have a publicist. I don't go to events or self-promote, or endorse things, or whatever it is people are meant to do in that world.

It's great to sit and talk about the films and the people I work with, rather than where I buy my socks or whatever.

People say I have a scary face. I find that to be a mixed compliment.

You fire blanks, but the guns eject real brass, hot cartridges. They're, like, 400 degrees.

I only do the press for the work. I don't have a publicist. I don't go to events or self-promote or endorse things or whatever it is people are meant to do in that world.

This industry is too bonkers to understand. Every single part is completely different.

I've never thought it was a good idea to act back-to-back.

If you are going to have any chance of replicating life, you need to live it.

I get bored quickly. Always have. Short attention span.

That routine thing is not comforting to me. It's the opposite to that.

I find it quite unsettling if I'm doing the same thing that I did yesterday.