Character Quote by Courtney A. Kemp Download Open image “When you write a show, every character is you to some extent.” — Courtney A. Kemp ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Every Show Some Write Writing
All characters are based on elements of a writer's personal experience. — Robert Holdstock Copy Share Image
But when you get to know a character so well, you start to have insights that you can't show because you're confined to your… — John Lloyd Young Copy Share Image
When you write for a show that's not yours, your job is to hear the voices of the characters and write as best you… — Amy Sherman-Palladino Copy Share Image
Traditionally, there's been a desire to make shows relatable so the maximum number of people would think of those characters as being recognizably like… — Roy Price Copy Share Image
The way I write my shows, every character is its own organic thing. No character has a life at all until I see it… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
I really become the characters when I'm writing them. I'll become one or two of them more than others, I'm consistent that way. — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
If you're writing on your own, each character is just you. It's just you. — Gabourey Sidibe Copy Share Image
I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to write them convincingly. — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
Part of the success of the show is that the audience sees themselves in the characters, becomes the characters. The more they inhabit the… — Bebe Neuwirth Copy Share Image
My dad was very, very invested in image. He felt that as a black person, the thing you could control was how did you… — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
The only black folks in town when I was growing up were me and my cousins and one other family. — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
I called my show 'Power' because, for me, the whole series is about the way my main character, Ghost, is power-less over his circumstances,… — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
There's a difference between talent and skill. You might have writing talent, but skill is learned. You have to practice. I remain teachable. I… — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
I really do love male characters, in some ways, for the fact that they get surprised when they're vulnerable. Women are more surprised by… — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
I thought I was going to be a professor; then I ran screaming from there into magazine journalism. — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
I had to figure out that finding my place was not about race but about creativity, and connecting with other artists helped me find… — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
There's this idea that you can have it all, but in my opinion, you can't - not if you're a perfectionist. — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
I think women judge other women more harshly, always, which is a shame. — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
I remember watching episodes of 'The Sopranos' and being filled with dread knowing what was coming or anticipating what was coming. I don't think… — Courtney A. Kemp Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
