RuPaul Quotes

Life is about using the whole box of crayons.

When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent.

The world is your catwalk, so just remember this when you're out there.

When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do.

If you can't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?

Be yourself. Know your proportions. And have a good tailor.

Haters gonna hate, but here are the only words you need for them. Sashay, away.

Anybody who can step out of the house with a pair of heels and some lipstick on their lips is my hero.

Whatever you proclaim as your identity here in the material realm is also your drag. You are not your religion. You are not your skin color. You are not your gender, your politics, your career, or your marital status. You are none of the superficial things that this world deems important. The real you is the energy force that created the entire universe!

Negativity is basically laziness. It takes a lot of hard work to remain positive, but positivity always pays off.

My attitude toward friendship has remained the same. I will support and encourage you with all the love in my heart, but if it's not reciprocal, I gotta go. If your friends are bitter about your success to the extent that they act out, don't expect them to change. Move on.

my goal is to always come from a place of love ...but sometimes you just have to break it down for a motherfucker

Drag threatens people because it exposes and mocks identity. Because most people believe that they are what it says they are on their driver's license. But the truth is we are all born naked, and the rest is drag.

Own who you are and celebrate it.

The truth of who we are has nothing to do with religion or the type of car that we drive or the color of our skin. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. And the human experience part is very temporary. So, things like the bar, love, magic, dancing, and colors are there to remind us to not take all of this stuff so seriously.

Don't be afraid to use all the colors in the crayon box.

It's all about knowing that everybody that you see, everybody that you sit across from is a different aspect of yourself. So once you can accept yourself on every level, that's when everything opens up, that's when the party really begins.

Kindness only goes so far, and then it's time to show your claws.

True wealth is having a healthy mind, body, and spirit. True wealth is having the knowledge to maneuver and navigate the mental obstacles that inhibit your ability to soar.

If you have goals and the stick-with-it-ness to make things happen, people will feel threatened by you, especially if your goals don’t include them. They believe that if you take a piece of pie, then that leaves less pie for them. Seeing you follow your dreams leaves them realizing that they’re not following theirs. In truth, there is unlimited pie for everyone!

I feel an obligation to myself to entertain myself and if other people get something out of it, I'm like, right on.

Even when I was down, I treated myself as a star and eventually the world would catch up.

We as gay people get to choose our family and the people we're around. I am your family. We are a family here.

Don't take life too seriously.

What other people think of me is not my business. What I do is what I do. How people see me doesn’t change what I decide to do.

It's a sort of piss-take on culture, because a drag queen is a clown - a parody of our society. It's a sarcastic spoof on culture, which allows us to laugh at ourselves - but in a way that is inclusive of everyone.

Everyone gets drunk and makes out with the wrong guy sometimes.

It's quite simple: If someone says UR beautiful, believe them. If someone says UR ugly, don't believe them.

Actually, it does start with you - if you want to change the world, change yourself.

We're born naked, and the rest is drag.

The world we live in is made up of polar opposites, black/white, male/female, night/day, and a human being who possesses both masculine and feminine – vulnerability and strength – is intriguing to us, whether they be a singer or actor or dancer, intrigues us, because THAT Is who we really are.

You want to know the truth about drugs? You can only go one or two ways. You can go up, or you can go down. That's it. After a certain point, though, no matter what you do, what you take, you don't go anywhere, and that's when you've got to sit down and face yourself.

I've dedicated my career to fighting the mundane. My hope is that my career will be a shining example to children everywhere that life is more meaningful when you are not afraid to see all colors of the rainbow.

Illusion starts between the ears. If the person doing illusion doesn't believe it, then the audience doesn't believe it. Seeing the picture in your head will allow the audience to see it in their heads.

Loving yourself—it really takes a daily practice.

Give a drag queen a fish and you feed her for a day; show her how to be fishy and you feed her for a lifetime.

And If I fly or if I fall, at least I can say I gave it all.

You are not your body. You are actually an extension of the power that created the whole universe.

You have to use what you have to get what you want.

Style is a celebratory expression of your life force. You must approach it with a sense of joie de vivre.

Be very careful of what you allow to infiltrate your consciousness and subconsciousness. When you watch too much television, you'll start to feel inferior from all the commercials hard selling the idea that you're not complete unless you buy their product. The ad agencies appeal to your fear of not being wanted or loved. It's the same with the local news. They get you to stay tuned with a constant stream of fear tactics. It's as if our culture is addicted to fear and the flat screen is our drug dealer. Don't allow that crap into your head!

Don't take life too seriously and have fun. Don't waste your time on things that your ego will try and convince you are important.

Look at me - a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.

The overall commentary on what I'm doing is saying, 'Hey look! I get to create whatever persona I want to, and it's all up to me. And the truth is, we are all - basically the universe - pretending to be humans for a brief moment of time. With a little self-induced amnesia.

The only thing you have to watch out for is other people who feel threatened by your party.

With hair, heels, and attitude, honey, I am through the roof.

All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money.

Ego loves identity. Drag mocks identity. Ego hates drag

So many times, people are afraid to start something because of fear of failing. But it can be fabulous - because it leads you to the next thing.

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