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" I always bring an orange scarf, not just so I can wear it or tuck it into my pocket, but also so I can throw it over a lamp in the hotel room. Orange is my favourite colour, and it gives a lovely, warm ambience. "

RuPaul

Over

Orange

I Can

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" I don't think drag will ever be mainstream because it's counter to what the mainstream directive is, which is picking an identity and sticking with it for the rest of your life. "

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

" We are all doing drag. Every single person on this planet is doing it. "

" Drag is really about reminding people that you are more than you think you are - you are more than what it says on your passport. "

RuPaul

People

You

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" Drag has always been the thing you turn to to remember to not take yourself too seriously. "

" I started out in this business in rock and roll bands and stumbled into drag. Drag just happened to be my vehicle for my creativity. So, you know, it's afforded me the opportunity to create new shows, to make music. "

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

RuPaul

Because

Feel

" Doing drag in a male-dominant culture is an act of treason. It's the most punk-rock thing you can do. "

" It's true in everything, not just in drag: To be a success, you have to understand the landscape. You have to know thyself, and you have to know your history so that you can draw from people who have figured out the equation you are faced with. It's not rocket science. "

" I remember being 14 years old, making a pact with myself. I would never join into the matrix, never join into the status quo, and I would always fight it. It always felt like I was on an operating table and the anesthesia never worked. "

" I've lived my whole life in the life - I've lived my whole life doing the thing, I've been doing my own thing. And I think my life speaks volumes about what one must do. "

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

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

" A regular old drag queen is usually your science teacher who's actually wearing women's panties underneath his slacks. A drag-queen superstar is someone who actually works in clubs and makes a living doing it more than one night a year, or even one night in six months. "

" I've always been drawn to people who dance to the beat of a different drum; it didn't matter if they were in film or music or fashion. "

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

RuPaul

Heel

High

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The only time you will ever see me in drag is when I am - What? Getting paid. It is my job. "

" It's important to remember that you're born naked, and the rest is drag. "

" I had mentors, growing up in gay life - older gay men who told me about our history and the history of art and culture - but somehow, the younger generation missed out on that synergy. "

RuPaul

Culture

Life

" 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 loved 'Carol.' I thought it was a beautiful film. "

" Mainstream's never appealed to me, really. I mean, I've become popular over the years in certain areas. But mainstream, you know, I would rather the mainstream come to me. "

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

" I'm ambitious. I work hard. "