Top 120 RuPaul Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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.”

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102. “Willingly release the hurt. Don’t let the heartache define you.”

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103. “There’s not a long career span because you can’t really make money doing drag for very long the way the system was set up for so many years.”

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104. “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.”

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105. “When I was a kid in San Diego, I would read fashion magazines and Interview magazine, and all of that really inspired me to create a persona. So by the time I moved to New York, in the early ’80s, I’d learned how to create a persona, and I knew what my persona would be.”

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106. “I had learned to transcend my skewed limitations by changing my perception. Understanding that process on an intellectual level is the beginning. Practicing it on an emotional level is success. I created new dreams.”

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107. “When you see magazine articles and you go, ‘Oh my God, that one looks so old or look how fat someone is’ it has very little to do with the person in question and more to do with the person who’s asking the question. People don’t want to believe their own mortality.”

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108. “It’s as if our culture is addicted to fear and the flat screen is our drug dealer.”

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109. “My music is a reflection of what I really love to listen to, pop, dance, mid tempo dance and ballads.”

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110. “Sharon Needles. Did I meet you at the free clinic?”

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

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112. “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.”

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113. “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.”

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114. “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.”

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115. “To this day it cracks me up to think that my debut on national British television as a reporter ends with me turning a trick.”

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116. “There’s really no way to fast-track someone because the rate that their brain is able to interpret the information they’re getting is on pace with life.”

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117. “Shifting my priorities from worrying about what other people think of me to fortifying myself with the truth of who I really am is how I constantly fill that void.”

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118. “After licking my wounds, I created new dreams. I planted more seeds. I had begun to understand that my ability to change my perception and reinvent myself was my trump card.”

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119. “What makes a gay icon is someone who possesses both masculine and feminine qualities simultaneously.”

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120. “But I will not be ignored. The soul that lives inside this body will not be ignored. I am here to stay.”

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121. “When you find success, sometimes you have to leave old friends behind. And sometimes you have to leave family members behind. It’s sad and heartbreaking, but it must be done. You cannot bring everybody with you, because some will resent you and drag you down to a level that makes them feel more comfortable.”

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122. “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.”

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123. “Think healthy thoughts. Even if you have every right to complain, don’t do it. If it’s raining, learn to dance in the rain. You are the architect of your life. Please believe it and let that be the reason.”

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124. “You have to find a tribe.”

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125. “Hell, I even think a unibrow is sexy.”

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126. “Don’t let the weight of the world flatten your weave.”

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127. “Everyone knows about the diminishments of growing older, but no one talks about the expanding strengths. Paired with intellect, your intuition grows increasingly stronger and more on point.”

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128. “The theme of the winner’s circle is adaptability, but at the same time, staying true to your own unique frequency and that’s the truth, not only in this competition, but in everything in life; taking those cues from the universe – and applying them – but without losing who you are.”

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129. “You’re born naked and the rest is drag.” In truth, you are not your clothes, you are not your profession, you are not your religion. You are an extension of the consciousness that guides the universe, for which there is no name because it cannot be defined. That’s why all the superficial things you list as your identity are in reality your “drag.”

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130. “I’ve been a daydreamer since day one. I much prefer looking out a window over looking at my phone.”

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131. “Drag for me has always been my superhero costume.”

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132. “I barely speak English, but I’m fluent in throwing shade.”

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133. “Drag really is all about dipping into pop culture and then reshaping it into something else.”

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134. “Challenge yourself to the limits of your fears. Get moving on.”

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135. “They didn’t know which box to put me in so I think it was easier to just see past me.”

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