Quotes About Relatability

Most Americans had only ever heard national political candidates shouting, trying to project their voices across a banquet hall or a football field. Hearing Roosevelt speak quietly and calmly, as if he were sitting across the kitchen table, having a reasonable argument with you, earned him Americans' dedicated affection. "It was a God-given gift," his wife said. He "could talk to people so that they felt he was talking to them individually.

Having someone sensible to talk to. Meaning someone who doesn't have a wiggle-waggle." -Karla, The Queen's Bargain

Don't worry...it happens to lots of guys.

People seem comfortable with me. And maybe that's got a lot to do with shows like Graham Norton. You just tell it like it is on those programs.

People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.

We can't help identifying with the protagonist. It's coded in our movie-going DNA.

I try to have something in common with my protagonists, especially when I'm writing in the first person.

What happens to us either happens to everyone or only to us: in the first instance it's banal; in the second it's incomprehensible.

I still want to be as approachable and relatable as possible - when I meet fans and they're crying, I'll say, 'Calm down, there's nothing to cry about.'

Daytime has been successful all these years because it caters to a very real need in the audience - to see something that's not nighttime fantasy. People watch daytime because it's like their lives.

I just have the ability to make a four-year-old kid and a 50-year-old man feel good at the same time. I don't talk down or up. I'm just myself.

I'm a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there.

Someone like Amy Poehler, I don't know, but I feel like I know her. I think everyone feels like they know her.

Certainly as a kid, I grew up with Batman, Superman, whoever - they didn't need to be black for me to relate to them. But when a character like Cyborg came along, I got excited, because he looked a little bit more like me; his experiences were a little bit more like mine.

My efforts have been to not only put the Biblical incident in the original setting, but at the same time give the human touch which makes the whole world kin and which ever remains the same.

I feel like one of my strengths is writing about stories that are unique to me but somehow relate with everyone, and the one thing I've found is that if you make a song wholly unique to you, then you don't have to compete with everybody, because nobody else can make a song like you.

Hot Ones' is a show that takes a celebrity, which by definition is a person whose lifestyle is unattainable, and then 'Hot Ones' takes that celebrity and knocks them down a peg - a level that everyone can relate to.

We were the ones that from the beginning said that 'Wide Open Spaces' was a hit. 'This is a hit, people are going to relate to it.'

As wild and raunchy as Richard Pryor was, people related to his honesty because they found something in their life that they understood.

In terms of the characters I think are really fun to play, a lot of times it's someone in my head saying 'I know that woman.'

I try not to set myself up as different or as a celebrity or special. I have a husband that can get on my nerves. I have kids that test my patience. I've got a cat I can't keep off the sofa. It's real. On a bad day, I'm reading 'Acts of Faith.'

You're going for a feeling. Make them think you're one of them.

I thought it would be great to do superheroes that have the same kind of life problems that any reader - that anybody could have.

I am made all things to all men.