Michelle Visage Quotes

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Michelle Visage

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 20, 1968

When you go into a show, you pray it's successful, but you just don't know what's going to happen.

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I'm loud and hard and in your face, and I tell the truth, and I think a lot of people fear the truth.

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I'm an intimidating figure.

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I get tons of emails every day from a lot of gays and young girls asking for help with their self-confidence and to heal and to feel. Even though I'm not an equipped social worker, I think the mom presence that I have makes them feel safe.

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My husband's my soul mate. At the same time, RuPaul's my soul mate.

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There have always been drag queens everywhere.

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There's only RuPaul.

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Listen, there's an expiration date for everything, but I mean, we're not burning out on 'Top Models,' are we? We're not burning out on making things in a 'Runway' room, are we? We're not getting enough 'Got Talent,' right? We'll never run out of talent. So, how could there be a 'Drag' burnout?

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I always tell the parents, 'You don't have to approve of your children; you just have to accept them for who they are.'

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I always felt ,like, I'll leave autobiographies to the people who are kind of iconic.

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Give Good Face is about keeping an air of confidence on the outside and showing everybody that you have what it takes.

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You can all get what you want to get, and so my journey was to show you how many times along the way adversity has stared me right in the face, and I've looked it right back and said, 'No.'

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I got involved in the underground world known as ballroom culture, and I used to walk a category called 'face,' and it was a very heavily Latino culture - it's black and Latino - and they used to call me 'cara,' which means face in Spanish, so I started putting 'cara' on everything: hats, jackets.

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You don't have to give up your dreams in order to earn a living - they can go hand in hand.

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There are different types of people in this world, and I am the type of person who loves to give.

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There are a lot of kids out there that look at me as their mother, and I have my two biological children, and there are so many queens that look at me as an aunt or some sort of confidante, and I can absorb it really well.

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I'm too much of a broad; I make men shake in their boots because I have a male dominance in my make-up that makes them feel emasculated.

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I'm a heterosexual, married woman with children. I'm a mother who's also a track mom, who cooks and cleans. And I just happen to be an ally for the gay community.

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I love creating. I love being with creative people who can think quickly on their feet.

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Life is the greatest teacher.

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