Sharon Needles Quotes

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Sharon Needles

Profession : Entertainer

Birth : November 28, 1981

Two people live within me. One's a very savvy businessperson; the other's a party girl.

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I'm obsessed with celebrities and fame. I always will be.

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I'm obsessed with media and news. I could watch it all day.

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I love what news has become. It's no longer based on facts, it's based on entertainment.

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Everyone loves puppets.

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Most drag queens dress up as super women, as an over exaggeration of the female form, because we like women, usually powerful women. I think that's why we are so over exaggerated; we are an amplification of the women who empowered us in our youth.

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Not all drag queens but certainly the ones who empowered me, are people who pushed buttons, and poked fun at society from Leigh Bowery, to Lady Bunny and Divine.

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In the entertainment industry women are often judged. They judge bigger women, they judge black women, and older women too. We just don't do that in drag. Drag is open to everyone, regardless of gender, body shape or age.

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The most powerful woman I know is my mother, and she doesn't wear any make up at all.

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Sometimes when I'm working with RuPaul, I can't even look at her without feeling so emotional about the process I went through, and what was before the competition and what happened in my life after, and what it's done to millions of gay disenfranchised freaky kids.

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I come from what we call the pre-'Drag Race' drag world where I didn't start doing this with aspirations of being a reality television star, or this going any further than the small smoky bars of Pittsburgh.

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I did drag out of necessity. I had to do it... I had to create this other character because - because she's cheaper than therapy.

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Love is a universal, attractive element. And other than death, love is the one thing that binds all of humanity.

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Jason Voorhees was a kid who was picked on at summer camp, and Michael Myers was someone vilified by his own family. I think that's why gay people like horror movies, because it's seeking revenge on the privileged.

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I love taxidermy. I collect taxidermy. I'm fascinated by the art of taxidermy. But on a more artistic level, I look at taxidermy as pulling something from the wild and taming it, and posing it in a style of your own personal pleasure that will last forever, and ever, and ever.

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Love is the one thing everyone is looking for, and death is the one thing everyone's running from.

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I don't socialize in drag anymore. If I'm in drag, I'm usually onstage or in the dressing room or in a car service.

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When your hobby becomes a full-time job that pays you and the people around you, it's not fun anymore.

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My mom let me play in her clothes, wear makeup, and I had high heels from a thrift store. My mom tells me that the only reason she let me dress in her clothes is because she couldn't afford any toys, and it seemed entertaining enough and kept her from having to buy me anything, 'cause everything I wanted was in her makeup box or wardrobe.

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I don't care how many times I play 'Angry Birds.' When you have the world's cares on your shoulders and you fling those little birds at those rotten pigs, then the whole world just melts away.

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