Michelle Visage Quotes

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Michelle Visage

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 20, 1968

Drag is never going to be completely mainstream because it's still a queer art form.

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I think we've seen every type of drag come across the stage of 'RuPaul's Drag Race,' and there is no end in sight of what can be on the stage.

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You can't get anything gayer than 'RuPaul's Drag Race!'

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I was really into punk rock but also into musical theater.

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When I grew up where I grew up, things were very, very different, and nobody had a filter. And that's what brought us together.

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You get one go round in this life. Why are you going to settle for second best when you can get everything you want out of it?

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My mother was incredible.

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My parents both worked; I was a 'latchkey kid.' We were lower-middle class, and they did everything that they could to give me anything I wanted, within reason. We were not rich by any stretch of the imagination, but being an adopted kid, I think we had a different connotation. My parents tried extra hard, I think.

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I love Marc Jacobs and what Kim Jones is doing for Dior Homme.

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For red-carpet gowns, Christian Siriano is one of my favourites.

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I was raised in New York, so that's the greatest city in the world to me, but if you take that out of the equation, then London is my favourite city, and I'm a huge fan of Dublin as well.

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Dublin is really fun, and Irish people are hilarious.

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I am just forthcoming - completely blunt and honest.

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If you listen to what I'm saying, there's always a reason for it. Always. And it always comes from my heart, a place of love.

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I am a biological female. I have two children. I've been married for 16 years. I've never been a man.

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I was a theater major, and I remember being in college, and whenever my professor would assign me songs that I hated, I really had a hard time singing them. One time, I even faked sick so I wouldn't have to sing a song.

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We have to fight for what's right the same way the brothers and sisters that came before us did. The ultimate example, and there are many others, was The Stonewall Inn. They were pushed until they could take no more.

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It takes an awful lot to offend me.

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I moved to New York City in the '80s to be an actress and to be on Broadway. That was always my dream.

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