Best 116 quotes of Rupaul Andre Charles on MyQuotes

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

A glamazon is someone who's taken a love of beauty and life and listen, depending on the weather or how my blood sugar at any time, I can be more outspoken than other times, but it's a conscious decision to live life with a fierce determination.

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

American culture is one that is so easily in denial. We have such a strange dichotomy, so hypocritical. The truth can be blaring in neon letters but our culture will find a reason not to hear what the truth is.

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

As a kid, I was searching for my tribe of other people who saw through the matrix. Even as a kid I could never buy into the status quo. I just thought it was a joke; I couldn't believe other people weren't laughing at it.

As gay people, we always think outside of the box. The irreverent is always important to a drag queen and anyone else who lives outside the box. And this is why drag's important: remember to not take life seriously. It's always important to see the laughter in the illusion that we pretend is real.

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!

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

But if you deem them worthy, people deserve a second chance.

Definition of lecture: An art of transmitting Information from the notes of the lecturer to the notes of students without passing through the minds of either. Definition of conference: The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present Definition of office: A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life. "What people say about me behind my back is none of my business.

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

Don't be jealous of my boogie.

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.

Don't take life too seriously.

Drag is like breaking the fourth wall in theater where we're letting you know straight up that this is an illusion. People are attracted to that because they know it's the truth of who they are also. No one is who they think they are. That's why people are attracted to drag.

Drag queens always love a portmanteau of combining words and making something new, because this whole world is shilarious. And so you have to contain yourself with words. Shilarious is just something that is a really hooty kiki funny item.

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.

Ego loves identity. Drag mocks identity. Ego hates drag

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

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

Excuses are for losers, and winning is for winners, like you!

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.

I always felt like an outer-space alien. I was always breaking the fourth wall.

I can always sniff out when someone is being what they think I want them to be, which is the complete opposite. I really want a queen to be herself.

I change clothes at least three times a day. It's the only way I can justify all the shopping I do. Prada to the grocery store? Yes! Gucci to the dry cleaner's? Why not? Dolce & Gabbana to the corner deli? I insist!

I chose to devote the lion's share of my time to my personal growth and to my family. I reconnected with the part of me that I had left behind.

I'd like to go for people I admire - I always gravitate towards the people I idolized when I was a teenager: Cher, Diana Ross, and David Bowie.

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

I feel like a mother-queen-vampire-Dracula because I want to make more girls so I can have more friends and more girls to play with, you know? For a long time, it was really just me. There were other girls in the niche underground, but not on a world level.

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

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!

If you read Animal Farm, you know that humans traditionally forget the reason we have revolutions in the first place.

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.

I love David Bowie and Cher and Diana Ross. I wanted to follow in their footsteps. So I set out to do that in a rock-'n'-roll band in Atlanta, Georgia. That led me to nightclubs and to the sort of Andy Warhol experience of creating a personality.

I love Superman. Because he represents the hero with 1,000 faces. And the potential that lies in every human on this planet.

I love to laugh, I love color, I love texture, and I love creativity, so I was always inspired by people who incorporate those things in their work.

I'm always game for everything. What people don't understand is that the networks are who you have to get to take a chance on you. I wanna do it all. The trick is convincing a network to do it with you.

I'm always talking about loving yourself and expressing yourself and learning how to love yourself. I'm still the same.

I'm motivated by the laughter, honestly. It's really not about the money or being more famous. I really love creativity.

I think in times of fear and hysteria in a culture, gender experimentation as it pertains to men has to go underground because it scares people too much and it's too much for people to take on. Especially when a culture is held hostage by fear and hysteria and fundamentalism.

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.

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.

It's been important to cultures throughout history with the court jester and the witch doctor and the shaman - all preach the same thing.

It's important to make a great first impression, so make sure to hold on to your damn weave.

It's important to stay in this moment right here, the now. This moment is the most important moment of your life.

It's important to use a stage name so that your real name doesn't appear on public records.

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

It's very easy for me to take on other people's energy, so my personal mantra is " Love yourself, love yourself, love 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.