Top 120 RuPaul Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “When you’re face to face with someone less worthy, tell them.”

— RuPaul

52. “Very little is off -limits, but draw the line at being unkind.”

— RuPaul

53. “In the great tradition of Paris Is Burning, bring out your library cards! Because reading is what? Fundamental!”

— RuPaul

54. “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.”

— RuPaul

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

— RuPaul

56. “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.”

— RuPaul

57. “The amount of respect you have for others is in direct proportion to how much respect you have for yourself.”

— RuPaul

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

— RuPaul

59. “Be yourself. Know your proportions. And have a good tailor.”

— RuPaul

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

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

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

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

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64. “It’s quite simple: If someone says UR beautiful, believe them. If someone says UR ugly, don’t believe them.”

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65. “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.”

— RuPaul

66. “Spirituality has nothing to do with church, and everything to do with hair.”

— RuPaul

67. “It’s been important to cultures throughout history with the court jester and the witch doctor and the shaman – all preach the same thing.”

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68. “Remember, the best time to get a new job is when you already have one.”

— RuPaul

69. “Through my observations, it became clear that most of society’s rules and customs are rooted in fear and superstition!”

— RuPaul

70. “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.”

— RuPaul

71. “SOmetimes life isn’t fair, and straight people are straight up crazy.”

— RuPaul

72. “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.”

— RuPaul

73. “Never save bath bombs for later. Never wait for a special occasion to light candles. Don’t wait to book a massage. Treat yourself to a spa day. Get yourself a colonic immediately. Now is the time. Your body is a temple. Serve it and it will serve you well.”

— RuPaul

74. “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.”

— RuPaul

75. “I’m always talking about loving yourself and expressing yourself and learning how to love yourself. I’m still the same.”

— RuPaul

76. “Our ego never wants to die and it will do anything to prolong its life. But the truth is, we are both spirit and ego and you have to have a balance between the two. Your spirit never dies, but the ego is all about beginnings and ends.”

— RuPaul

77. “Walking with your chest out and your head held high says you have earned the right to stomp and pummel this particular piece of real estate.”

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78. “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.”

— RuPaul

79. “No one wants a cherry pie that bites back.”

— RuPaul

80. “Having money, power, and respect pacifies the ego only temporarily and does nothing to relieve the deeper feeling of emptiness. We’re all sold on this idea that wholeness can be bought, married into, or wished real hard for, but the more substantial definition of success requires a lot more than just worldwide recognition and acquiring things.”

— RuPaul

81. “Some girls talk to the boys in the chat room, my girls talk to the boys in the backroom.”

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82. “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.”

— RuPaul

83. “We all came into this world naked. The rest is all drag.”

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84. “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.”

— RuPaul

85. “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.”

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86. “You can’t have a discussion about bullying unless you also have a discussion against our culture’s obsession with masculinity.”

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

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88. “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.”

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

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90. “We are all illusionists and that’s why we are attracted to drag queens. This whole world is an illusion. It’s not real.”

— RuPaul

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

— RuPaul

92. “Sacrifices have to be made if you want to make a dent in the world, and that’s what I started out to do – to make a dent in pop culture.”

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

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94. “I realize that no one has been crueler to me than I have been to myself. The most dangerous place on earth is inside my head.”

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95. “The main thing that motivates me is laughter, and colors, and music, and dancing! And I do all of the above every day.”

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96. “When I was about 13, 14 – 13, I would carry a magic marker with me everywhere I went so I could write the word “Bowie” on everything that wasn’t mine.”

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97. “The greatest truths in life are the ones your fellow queens are willing to tell you.”

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98. “My life is so much better, it’s so much more enriched if I make the effort, if I actually celebrate with gladitude the fact that I get to be on this gorgeous planet.”

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99. “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.”

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100. “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.”

— RuPaul