There are easier things in life than being a drag queen. But I ain’t got no choice. Try as I may, I just can’t walk in flats.
Please, people, do not f- with depression. It’s merciless. All it wants is to get you in a room alone and kill you. Take care of yourself.
How time flies when you’re doin all the talking.
A thing of beauty is a joy till sunrise.
While we dance in the streets and pat ourselves on the back for being a nation great enough to reach beyond racial divides to elect our first African-American president, let us not forget that we remain a nation still proudly practicing prejudice.
Change your mind as often as possible. Just because you thought something yesterday doesn’t mean you have to think it today. Don’t ever become a prisoner of your own opinion.
When I went into ‘Fiddler,’ I wondered about the response I’d get – the backlash because I’m openly gay. There was none. I toured Canada and America, and not one single review suggested that I played the role gay or that I seemed anything but Tevye.
I just want to be loved, is that so wrong?!
I guess a drag queen’s like an oil painting: You gotta stand back from it to get the full effect.
I have great faith in the United States. It’s the only country I would ever live in.
Never be bullied into silence.
The next time you feel you have to say, “I love you” to someone, say it to yourself – and see if you believe it.
There’s nothing I need from anyone except love and respect, and anyone who can’t give me those two things has no place in my life.
CBS really wants me on TV. That’s their aim. My aim is to have an all-gay sitcom someday, with heterosexuals as token guest stars. Let them be the next-door neighbors for a change.
In no way be bullied into silence. Hardly ever permit on your own to become made a sufferer. Acknowledge no one’s definition of one’s lifetime; define oneself.
There are times when I don’t take roles because I don’t want to be perceived a certain way.
Theater is my temple and my religion and my act of faith. Strangers sit in a room together and believe together.
Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don’t.
Pork was in 1971, and I stopped hanging out at The Factory by like 1973.
Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it’s story heavy, it’s about ideas.