Sharon Needles Quotes

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Sharon Needles

Profession : Entertainer

Birth : November 28, 1981

Beneath the 30 pounds of makeup and corsets and gowns are real beating hearts of real people and they usually come from a place of pain.

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When most kids were hiding their eyes or cowering under the covers, I was three inches away from the television when horror movies were played.

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Call Me On The Ouija Board' is homage not just to horror movies involving children, but my favorites as a child.

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In the past, when I lacked designer duds, I simply relied on my hot glue gun.

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Love is a universal thing that everyone understands. Love, like death, is the only thing that binds humanity.

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Before my time on 'RuPaul's Drag Race,' Halloween was my favorite day of the year since I was a little kid. It's the day we worship the macabre and live vicariously through the costumes that we wear.

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When I wrote 'PG-13,' I had just won 'RuPaul's Drag Race,' all my nightmares had come true, and I was a brat. I was a privileged brat overnight.

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I wrote my first album almost as an entitled child. 'Taxidermy' is written by a much more precarious, untrusting adult.

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Dead things should be buried and not eaten.

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I can't speak for everyone, but the kind of comedy that makes me laugh are the ones that kind of make me cringe, and kind of make me look inside my own fears, my own anxieties.

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Drag can be considered so many dangerous things, which it isn't. But the one thing we're never called is misogynist, which might be the only thing that we truly are. Because no woman looks like this. You have so many real biological everyday women say: 'Oh I wish I would look like you.' They would look ridiculous if they looked like us.

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Drag really isn't just about exaggerating and celebrating femininity. Some drag queens want to look like monsters, some drag queens want to look like hot dogs. Really what it is is just dipping your toes in all the swimming pools of identity and allowing yourself. Because society really tries to compartmentalize humans in a certain way.

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Any younger person - let's say if you're over the age of 30, Pride is a great excuse to go day-drinking. But no one forgets their first Pride and how much they felt that they were included and that the future was bright.

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It has always been my aim to live everyday like Halloween by celebrating individuality and creative freedom within a world of horror.

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It's a pleasure to join the ranks of Debbie Rochon, Linnea Quigley, and Heather Langenkamp as one of America's most recognizable Scream Queens!

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I could talk about myself for hours!

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Well I grew up in a small town in Iowa and there weren't a lot of imaginative and fun outlets for kids of my caliber, so pretty much my mom's closet and any large pieces of fabric in the Halloween box were my favorite toys.

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I've always toyed around with creating over-the-top lady characters in my head.

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Sharon Needles was based on two things: That she was beautiful and that she was stupid.

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Sometimes I'm not even really quite sure why I do what I do - do I do it because I like to show that I'm an educated person to exploit these certain things artistically and, in my opinion, in a very smart way - or am I just a punk rock brat that likes pushing people's buttons and relishing in the negative reaction? I can't tell.

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