A biography for Katherine Moennighasn’t been written yet.
“I went to an all-girls pre school where everyone went off to Harvard or Yale, and I had zero interest in doing so. I think they thought I was on drugs. There was a neighboring all-boys school, so we'd get together and do dumb things. It was your typical Catholic-American upbringing.”
“If you're androgynous, that's what you look like.”
“I would not want to play a girl who masquerades as a boy for the rest of my life.”
“I went to this tattoo parlor in the East Village and I got an outline of a violin on my lower back. They call them tramp stamps now.”
“Let's call a spade a spade: when people look at me, they say, 'Oh, she's the androgynous one.' I'll tell you what type of character I would never be offered out there: The femme fatale. Or the white-trash, heterosexual hillbilly.”
“The characters I've played that people have noticed included a cross-dresser and a transsexual.”
“I'm not thrilled that I have a tramp stamp. When you see people bend over in their really low-cut jeans, I'm like, 'Oh... that's what I have.'”
“I expect that it won't be an easy road once 'The L Word' is over, but I'm gonna do everything in my power during my time off to do other things that show another side of me.”
“I don't think I look like a boy, but I don't think androgyny is such a bad thing.”
“I think my comparison with Shane would be a loner. I always got the impression that she wasn't scared to be alone. She enjoys it. I can relate to that.”
“I like stories that are not normal, everyday lives. I don't personally seek them out, but they find me.”
“When someone gets closely related to a character they play on TV, it's very hard to break that mold and go on to do something else.”
“Why do people care if I'm gay or not?”
“I have no hips, and I feel like my body's like a teenage boy's. But I can have the hair long, put on makeup, wear a dress, and do the exact opposite as well.”
“You're always attracted to someone you want to learn from.”
“God love the iPhone. Best time waster of the century.”
“It's very interesting how life imitates art, and art imitates life; I find, whenever I read scenes of some magnitude, I'm like, 'Oh, I feel like I've experienced this,' or 'I am experiencing this,' or 'I might start to experience it soon.'”
“I've seen up close what can happen when actors talk publicly about their relationships: their personal life gets dismantled. It's a show business game, and it's one game I won't play.”
“My biggest challenge is trust, and really believing that trust, in letting things just happen personally and professionally and trust with myself. But I'm getting better at it.”
“I have to say a part of me was a little terrified to be only looked at as Shane from 'The L Word.' I was very conscious of doing something that would steer me clear or just steer me in a different direction.”