Kerry Washington Quotes

People are people, and they want to know about their own experiences.

I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think I'm writing about one woman, one person. And I try to imagine what she is like, and endow her with a lot of my own thoughts and history.

You need a strong sense of 'otherness' to be able to create in your life.

Figure out who you are.

A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.

The more time you spend with any character, whether it's from a comic book universe or a really naturalistic universe, the more time you spend, the more that character just becomes another aspect of yourself.

I think I gravitate towards characters who are slight outsiders.

I'm mostly interested in characters and how they manifest themselves in their relationships. I'm delighted that people relate to the characters in 'Bojack,' and hopefully they will too to the characters in 'Undone.' If they understand themselves or feel seen in a new way, I think that's a wonderful thing.

I think people will discover themselves in 'Ankahee.'

We love stories about identity and acceptance because they're so universal.

I'm writing my story so that others might see fragments of themselves.

Well, it's probably not something I'm conscious of, but I do gravitate towards characters that are kind of like me.

We're all the heroes of our own stories. So, when I am inside the head of a character who would otherwise be considered a villain, I have a great deal of affection for that character and I'm trying to see the world and the events through their eyes.

If you have a problem with people living their lives and being authentically who they are, you really should go and do some soul-searching.

I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture of who I am.

It's interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves - not so much to learn about me.

Friendship admits of difference of character, as love does that of sex.

But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime. I know everything worth knowing about myself--" ~Something Wicked This Way Comes

I'm a jerk, that's who I am. I'm like everybody else.

I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.

A lot of characters now on TV have moved into being anti-heroes, but I wanted to be the hero.

I don't think sexuality defines a person. It's one small part of who you are, in my view. You are many things, and I never felt that people were defined by their sexuality solely.

We are who we are because somebody loved us.

When you write a character and their dialogue, you can't help imagining how you would be acting if you were them. You kind of have to relate to all of them. It's the most personal thing I've ever done.

I think it is very useful to know ourselves, but when we start naming and labeling, that is dangerous, that gets problematic. It negates that things are always changing. Besides, it's hard to pin a label onto something that's always moving.