Quotes About Relatability

You have to have somebody to root for. I truly believe that's how you ground a movie. You ground them in the characters.

Without having an emotional connection or some relatability to the characters, there's really nothing to root for, in some respect.

I find that I relate to most of the characters that I play on a really personal level, just because we're the same age, we're girls, and we're growing. I can find myself in those roles, so it makes it easy to connect to. But all of them are their own person - they're all hard to understand and hard to figure out, just like I am.

I listen to the same things that a lot of my fans do, and I grew up in much the same way they're growing up.

Generally, the songs that are the scariest ones are the ones that people connect to.

I think you're much more approachable when you're on a small screen.

I want to speak directly to the audience, to say, 'I'm like you - I'm frustrated, I'm not an expert, I don't have a manual on parenting, I make mistakes, I'm selfish too.'

I am a simple girl and do not like partying. Whatever parties I attend are small ones, with my own friends.

Maupassant is a man of mitigating circumstances, the lawyer who can bring the jurors around by demonstrating that they too could have committed such a crime. We are all murderers.

I always tend to write about outsiders. And what's been fun for me is, as I travel around and visit schools, is that other kids that feel the same way relate to some of my characters, and so I hope in some way that's helping them when they want to read about somebody that they can relate to.

To me, the most important selling point of 'Roswell' was that the audience has to believe in the characters they're watching.

Fans feel so close to us and can relate to us because not only do we look like the kids at our shows, we're in the crowd with the kids at our shows. We don't create this weird barrier like we're some crazy rock band.

I don't worry about whether a character is likable, as long as the character is believable.

Comedy makes things believable. Because if there's anything we all know, it's how to make fun of ourselves, and to make fun of situations to make them a bit easier.

I'm real, and that what you see is what you get with me. I want people to know that I'm just Julianne. I'm not somebody that needs to be put up on a pedestal.

I don't think anyone has a bad perception of me. Just a limited one. Everyone thinks I pretty much sit around and talk about Jesus all the time. But I'm normal. I'm just a guy. Yeah, I love Jesus and do things a bit different, but I have the same conversations and share the same thoughts as anyone else.

Perfect heroes are cool, but no one can really empathize or identify with them.

Somewhere, the audience relates to my characters and their vulnerability. I believe they see themselves in me.

Vulnerability, humility, relatability - those three are very close and very similar to keep you going.

I think you become more relatable when you're vulnerable.

If I can show people how vulnerable and how flawed I am, maybe others will relate.

We have a song like 'Ready to Love Again' that is really, really special to me. It's the one that I relate to the most. It's very personal, so we really allowed ourselves to go there and be vulnerable and show the fans that we feel and we hurt and we love just like anybody else does. I hope they feel that when they hear it.

I think when I show my vulnerability, people relate with that because they know deep down inside that they have vulnerable moments, and they can really connect and identify with me on those things.

When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.