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RuPaul is best known as the host and executive producer of RuPaul’s Drag Race, a reality television show about drag queens. She has become the most famous drag queen of all Time and has been credited with pioneering new concepts such as ‘drag fashion,’ ‘drag family,’ and ‘transgender people in mainstream media. Her show has received both critical acclaim and commercial success.
She is well-known for his catchphrase “Work that looks!” and has been a catalyst for the transformation of drag into mainstream American culture. She is also an author of books on spirituality, fashion, body image, and self-esteem. Also, she won a Grammy Award for his single “Supermodel (You Better Work).”
RuPaul RuPaul was named one of Time’s 100 most influential people in the world in 2013.
Check out her most inspiring quotes, and feel encouraged to achieve your dreams.
53 RuPaul Quotes That Will Push You Forward For Success
“To limit yourself to one thing, it’s your business. But you have a choice.”
“We’re all born naked and the rest is drag.”
“The secret of success in every field is redefining what success means to you. It can’t be your parent’s definition, the media’s definition, or your neighbor’s definition. Otherwise, success will never satisfy you.”
“Excuses are for losers, and winning is for winners, like you!”
“We are all doing drag. Every single person on this planet is doing it.”
Negativity is basically laziness. It takes a lot of hard work to remain positive, but positivity always pays off.”
“Don’t get bitter, just get better.”
“Look at me – a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.”
“If you want to be invited to the party, you better have something to bring.”
“Success is something between you and yourself. I think only you know where you’ve come from and how far you wanna go.”
“If you have goals and the stick-with-it-ness to make things happen, people will feel threatened by you, especially if your goals don’t include them. They believe that if you take a piece of pie then that leaves less pie for them. Seeing you follow your dreams leaves them realizing that they’re not following theirs. In truth, there is unlimited pie for everyone!”
“To win at life and to win in this competition, you have to be willing to die a thousand deaths and be reborn a thousand times.”
“I believe in using all the colors in the crayon box.”
“Never forget that the most political thing you can ever do is follow your heart.”
“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.”
“my goal is to always come from a place of love …but sometimes you just have to break it down for a motherfucker”
“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.”
“True wealth is having a healthy mind, body, and spirit. True wealth is having the knowledge to maneuver and navigate the mental obstacles that inhibit your ability to soar.”
“If you can’t love yourself, how the hell are you gonna love somebody else?”
“Fulfillment isn’t found over the rainbow—it’s found in the here and now. Today I define success by the fluidity with which I transcend emotional land mines and choose joy and gratitude instead.”
“Unless they’re paying your bills, pay them bitches no mind!”
“When you become the image of your own imagination, it’s the most powerful thing you could ever do.”
“It’s quite simple: If someone says UR beautiful, believe them. If someone says UR ugly, don’t believe them.”
“You can’t have a discussion about bullying unless you also have a discussion against our culture’s obsession with masculinity.”
“The only time you will ever see me in drag is when I am – What? Getting paid. It is my job.”
“Once you clear out from your consciousness things that no longer matter, you’re able to make room for other things.”
“All sins are forgiven once you start making a lot of money.”
“We’re born naked, and the rest is drag.”
“When you become the image of your own imagination, it’s the most powerful thing you could ever do.”
“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.”
“You may not get the role you auditioned for, but make a lasting impression and they’ll remember you for something else later.”
“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.”
“That is the key to navigating this life—don’t take it too seriously. That’s when the party begins.”
“It’s very easy to look at the world and think, this is all so cruel and so mean. It’s important to not become bitter from it.”
“The whole point is to live life and be – to use all the colors in the crayon box.”
“It’s not the word itself, but the intention behind the word.”
“I feel an obligation to myself to entertain myself and if other people get something out of it, I’m like, right on.”
“When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent themselves.”
“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.”
“There are so many sensitive souls; they don’t know what to do with their feelings.”
“In our subconscious, we all know we’re playing roles.”
“It’s been important to cultures throughout history with the court jester and the witch doctor and the shaman – all preach the same thing.”
“Personally, I experience success when I enjoy what I’m doing. I love the creative process, even if the end result isn’t embraced by anyone else.”
“Whatever you proclaim as your identity here in the material realm is also your drag. You are not your religion. You are not your skin color. You are not your gender, your politics, your career, or your marital status. You are none of the superficial things that this world deems important. The real you is the energy force that created the entire universe!”
“Biggest obstacle I ever faced was my own limited perception of myself.”
“You have to use what you have to get what you want.”
“From childhood, we’re trained to be a certain way, to behave a certain way – so that the power base can control us, really. And punk and drag are completely outside of that.”
“When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent.”
“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.”
“Racism has nothing to do with race. It is the ego’s way of making you feel ‘better than’ .”
“Drag is there to remind culture not to take itself too seriously. All of this is illusion.”
“You are not your body. You are actually an extension of the power that created the whole universe.”
