A biography for Katya Zamolodchikovahasn’t been written yet.
“I never give gifts!”
“I don't try to represent myself in a way that's not connected with my everyday reality, because I'm not smart enough to do that.”
“There's a lot of stupid men out there who feel like makeup is a betrayal of the truth, and that is so funny to me.”
“I'm not a comic. There's twenty five percent of me that doesn't trust people who identify as comics.”
“I don't ever wanna be mainstream.”
“I've been obsessed with David Letterman forever, and I'd love to be the drag version of David Letterman.”
“Filthy does not equal unhealthy, necessarily.”
“It actually was 'RuPaul's Best Friend Race' for me.”
“I tend to latch on to things pretty obsessively for awhile. I listened to Russian pop music exclusively for almost five years. It's weird.”
“I like to take my time when I'm designing and constructing outfits.”
“Drag, in my view these days, has become the thing it used to make fun of - which is Jennifer Lopez. Now we all want to be her. We have stylists; we have special photographers.”
“I don't wash my hair.”
“You're not homophobic for thinking that something gay is bad. All gay movies are bad.”
“I am an Irish Catholic person. I've been a man and a woman. I speak Russian, sort of. And then I'm very diplomatic.”
“I love every color!”
“At a meet and greet in a nightclub in Texas, a girl who looked about 15 years old gave me a VHS copy of 'Adventures in Babysitting,' and she whispered in my ear that it's really just home movie footage of her dad practicing judo.”
“Count on me to shine where it doesn't count.”
“The crux of drag is outsiders looking in. That's all it is.”
“Not everybody needs to be a weirdo.”
“I was a wallflower. I never talked to anybody. I was so afraid of people, I never said a word.”