Latest RuPaul Quotes from Interviews

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• 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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  Fashion, New York, Kids

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  RuPaul

  Love Yourself, Loving Yourself, Talking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

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  Creating, Rocks, Atlanta

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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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  Creativity, Color, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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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  Girl, Mother, Queens

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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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  Growth, Lions, My Family

  Interview With Daisy Mae, chicago.gopride.com. October 27, 2004.

• 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.

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  Fun, Ego, Important

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

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  Reflection, Ballads, Pops

  "RuPaul interview with ChicagoPride.com". Interview with Daisy Mae, chicago.gopride.com. October 27, 2004.

• 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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  Believe, Ears, Illusion

• The truth of who we are has nothing to do with religion or the type of car that we drive or the color of our skin. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. And the human experience part is very temporary. So, things like the bar, love, magic, dancing, and colors are there to remind us to not take all of this stuff so seriously.

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  Spiritual, Color, Dancing

• 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.

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  Wall, Thinking, People

• We are all illusionists and that's why we are attracted to drag queens. This whole world is an illusion. It's not real.

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  Queens, Real, World

• 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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  Believe, People, Looks

• 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.

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  Two, Ego, Balance

• 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.

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  Believe, People, Identity

• So many times, people are afraid to start something because of fear of failing. But it can be fabulous - because it leads you to the next thing.

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  People, Fabulous, Next

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. September 17, 2014.

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

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  Love You, People, Self Love

• The truth is - most things are probably gonna fail. But my failures bring me to the next thing. So in that regard, nothing's a failure, it's a continuation.

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  Next, Failing, Truth Is

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. September 17, 2014.

• 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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  Games, People, Chance

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. September 17, 2014.

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

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  Important, Moments, Important Moments

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. September 17, 2014.

• 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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  Teenager, People, Diana

• 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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  Queens, Thinking, Opposites

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

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  Being Yourself, Tailors, Proportion

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. September 17, 2014.

• Love yourself. KNOW thyself. And be mindful of your thoughts.

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  Love You, Know Thyself, Knows

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

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  Real, Names, Important

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. September 17, 2014.