Sharon Needles Quotes

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Sharon Needles

Profession : Entertainer

Birth : November 28, 1981

A lot of people call horror movies 'campy,' and I can certainly see why they think that they are, but being a product of the 80s, I didn't notice that they were campy - I came from a campy generation. I mean, Ronald Reagan is campy. But I don't think they're campy.

Sharon Needles

I think that the attraction to camp is its irreverence, it's strange, it in no way reflects reality while using real characters.

Sharon Needles

Campy films almost create real-life cartoons.

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It's like, 'Oh, great, drag queens can excel!' - but then the ceiling is so low. You're only allowed on the first floor; you're not allowed to go play with the big boys upstairs. Even RuPaul, who's a massive success, has been limited to where her music career can take her.

Sharon Needles

If you were to come in to my house, I have archived every fan letter I've ever been given, boxes and boxes and boxes and boxes of them.

Sharon Needles

I think the reason people are propping up drag queens is because it's popular with the fans that identify with them, so we're great for marketing. We're not allowed to be the Christmas tree, we're just allowed to be the decorations, and I still think we're looked at as clowns by a majority of the society.

Sharon Needles

I love celebrities, and I love the concept of fame, but it took me getting fame to realize that it doesn't exist, which was kind of a bummer. Fame is great if you're not famous, because it seems like this elusive impossible dream world. And it's not. It's a fancy word that managers and producers make up so they can keep hawking you for more money.

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I've always loved Salem, and I love the title of Scream Queen.

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RuPaul's Drag Race' is my favorite show on television, and I've never missed an episode. With season 4, I watched it as if Sharon Needles wasn't me but was just another character.

Sharon Needles

My brain is a great fashion designer. Unfortunately, I don't have the skills to do it.

Sharon Needles

I went into 'RuPaul's Drag Race' saying, 'I'll never cry.' Because they make fun of every queen that cries on the show. And I did cry, and I did scream, and I did have doubt, and I did have great, victorious moments.

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I come from regional, small-city drag, where if you won Miss Des Moines, Iowa, and you did something bad, or you were being a role model, your crown was taken away.

Sharon Needles

I love Halloween. I mean, yes, I consider every day to be Halloween, but it's a very special day for me.

Sharon Needles

I love covers because there's just something I love about replicating someone else's music or taking rare music and introducing it to a wider or a new audience.

Sharon Needles

On 'PG-13,' the way I wrote that is that I would get my tracks ahead of time and then I would write for them, and I wrote fairly quickly.

Sharon Needles

PG-13' is kind of a scattered, almost movie soundtrack album, with elements of punk and metal and electronica.

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I'm kind of against car culture - I've always been a cyclist.

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A man in a dress can get away with a lot.

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Sharon Needles is definitely Pittsburgh - always rough around the edges, a little ignorant, a little uneducated. And she's dead. And Pittsburgh is, after all, the zombie capital of the world, a little financially lower class, and just all-around a gritty, rough city.

Sharon Needles

Politics remind me a lot of 'RuPaul's Drag Race.' It's real but it isn't.

Sharon Needles