Trixie Mattel Quotes

Trixie Mattel

Profession : Entertainer

Birth : August 28, 1989

I listened to a lot of what my grandparents listened to: George Jones, Johnny Cash - a lot of old country singers. Patsy Cline.

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I've always been obsessed with Michelle Branch, Avril Lavigne, Melissa Etheridge.

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I look like Forrest Gump.

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When I'm in drag, I don't always want to be spoken to, but I love being looked at. Nobody puts that much work into how they look to be ignored.

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I don't expect a lot of people who love drag to also be like, 'I love 'Drag Race,' and then I got to hear my Chris Stapleton album.' Not necessarily an obvious crossover.

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I think the perception of audiences that love folk and country is they're perceived to be more closed-minded than they really are.

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Trixie Mattel has always opened doors for me. It's closed very few.

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Something 'Drag Race' is really good at is portraying us as artists but also human beings. And normal human beings don't know everything. They don't have all the answers.

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In the real world, people go against my beliefs all the time, and I don't make it my place to - like, I'm not super confrontational.

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'Drag Race' doesn't claim to represent drag as a whole. 'Drag Race' is a reality show. If you see real drag shows, we just do drag and respect each other's art and who your real identity is - name, gender, hair color, anything.

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Whatever is underneath all the drag, it actually doesn't really matter. It kind of just matters, are you a great entertainer? And are you nice to work with? Are you good at your job?

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I'm most proud of my career as a touring comedian and musician. I love doing television, I love selling records, but when I'm at these venues with hundreds of people, and they're all sitting listening to my music and my jokes, I feel like I could die that day, and I would be happy.

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I guess I just believe in Trixie Mattel, and I believe in the work. I don't think I'm better than anybody else, but I really think that I'm hilarious and beautiful.

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I always say that drag queens are like an exaggeration of women, and I'm like an exaggeration of drag queens. People ask, 'Why do you do your makeup so differently?' and I always say, 'Well, in a subversive art form, ask yourself why so many drag queens do their makeup exactly the same.' If you can do anything, why does everybody do the same thing?

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Some of my favorite drag queens are women.

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Something that I love about drag is that it's a celebration of feminity.

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Most drag queens, they put on music like it's a costume. It's not in their bones. It's not in their background.

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I hate drag. It's extremely uncomfortable. It's awful. I'm in a full corset and pads and giant wigs.

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