RuPaul
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Biography
RuPaul Andre Charles is an American drag queen, television host, singer, producer, writer, and actor. He produces, hosts, and judges the reality competition series RuPaul's Drag Race and has received several accolades, including 14 Primetime Emmy Awards and a Tony Award, in addition to two Billboard Music Awards, a Critics' Choice Television Award, five GLAAD Media Awards, and a Guinness World Records title.
"If you don't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?"
"All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money."
"People ask, "Why do you dress like a woman?" I don't dress like a woman. I dress like a drag queen."
"I will not be ignored. I am here to stay."
"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. I don’t choose projects so people don’t see me as one thing or another. I choose projects that excite me."
"When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do."
"In the great tradition of Paris Is Burning, bring out your library cards! Because reading is what? Fundamental!"
"Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you."
"Ego loves identity. Drag mocks identity. Ego hates drag."
"Don't believe the hype don't believe what it tells you on your driver's license. You are an extension of the power that created this whole universe."
"The whole point is to live life and be - to use all the colors in the crayon box."
"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."
"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 go to the gym at five in the morning and then go do a hike."