Kat Edmonson Quotes

My character from 'Panda Eyes,' Fay, is the character I see myself in a lot.

As a writer, you rely on whatever makes you up as a person, whether those things are twisted and nasty or otherwise.

I always want to remain inspired.

I was really affected by 'The Piano.' Had I not seen that movie, I wouldn't have gone to film school.

Be as in touch with your dreams as you can be.

I vividly remember watching women in films when I was nine or 10, picturing them being what I'd be like as an adult. I had these real female crushes on certain actresses. And I'd watch them, thinking, 'One day, I'll be that. One day I'll be a woman.'

Thankfully, I already have a mogul I can pattern myself after: Oprah. We're a lot alike. I'm black, I love to relate things people talk about to myself, and people think my best friend and I are lesbians! My strength is that I'm more relatable.

Basically when you're a writer and have a mind like mine, my mind has gone platinum multiple times, and I have got a heart of gold; my heart's in the right place.

My dad used to call me 'the dreamer.' He was right.

When I write, it's like choosing which shoes I'm going to put on. More often than not, my lyrics are personal - but I sometimes have to put myself in other people's shoes.

I find myself a bit boring because I somehow always wanted to be MSF.

I'm looking through old things of mine, and there was this binder from when I was 14 years old. It is essentially a dream board. It is a school binder that I had put magazine clippings on. It said, 'TV actress, fame, a picture of Halle Berry, a picture of Christina Aguilera.' I was obsessed with both of them.

It warms my heart, no doubt, to inspire people. In reality, people see in others what they want to see in themselves.

I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters.

The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.

If you admire greatness in another human being, it is your own greatness you are seeing.

This is a photograph of me as I wish I looked all the time. Then I might have a chance of getting in Hollywood.

I just see myself as an object in the final image. I know I'm experiencing it when I'm there working on it. I'm there to be worked with, as anything else that I work with.

As long as I continue to take myself seriously, how can I consider myself a saint? How can I consider myself a contemplative? For the self I bother about does not really exist, never will, never did except in my own imagination.

It is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such. The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard the townsfolk cry 'Monster!' and looked behind him.

Look directly into every mirror. Realize our reflection is the first sentence to a story, and our story starts: We were here.

I was in my early thirties writing about my early twenties, so there was this way of seeing my younger self from enough of a distance to have perspective but also not to feel that I had to protect myself. My dreams for myself then would have undersold myself in a way.

Being on set and seeing all that green screen, and how it activated my imagination, was amazing to me. I fell into that world very easily, and it was incredible to be a part of.

The artists we love, they put their fingerprint on your imagination, and on your heart and your soul.

Who is that girl I see, staring straight back at me? When will my reflection show who I am inside?