Quotes About Relatability

What's most important is to create an atmosphere that's real, providing characters the audience can root for. Once they become emotionally attached, that's the secret in building a show. The audience can see themselves in these characters, and they respond to the stories.

Because, you know, I can't work a bicycle pump.

I think flawed characters are important, because no one is perfect.

Basically, I'm a free spirit. I'm kind of an Everywoman.

The thing that I'm trying to accomplish is to tell the stories and my feelings in ways that are relatable. But at the same time, I'm so tired of hearing the same old crap. Bring some freshness if you can.

Consequently, we sympathize. We identify. We care. In fact, most writers would like you to identify

When people look and decide they have nothing in common with me - I'm 43, balding, blond, whatever - there's something absolutely invigorating about winning them over. Even if it's eight people from Sweden who don't understand what I'm talking about.

I wasn't a Superman guy - I didn't like the invincible superhero who always wins. Who can get behind someone like that?

I feel like people can relate to me because we all go through wins and roadblocks and passion and pain, and it's a vibe.

People come up to me and say, 'Can I just thank you for writing my life?' And I reply, 'I'm glad someone else is as idiotic as I am.'

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.

The one thing about comedy, making it become a part of you, the audience loves it, because you become part of them.

In our family, we don't hide crazy...we put it on the porch and give it a cocktail.

Every song you're trying to find something that going to connect in different ways but for me the songs that I'm really drawn to are inspirational, songs that lift you and that everybody can relate to no matter where you're from.

I speak relatively little, except when I'm at home and I'm asking for things.

If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to.

And then I see what she means. Because I did have to tell her, just like she had to tell me all of this. I had to trust her. Sometimes you have to tell someone else what it's like. Because if you don't, you'll go nuts.

As an apologetic strategy, it only makes sense to meet people where they are. Where else, indeed, can they be met?

Don't you give me no rotten tomato, Dexter sang, just 'cause to your crazy shit I cannot relate-o.

but you could also look at it the other way. Like you're saying no matter how bad things are for you, I can still relate.

I think it's time we had a president who carried the same life experiences into the White House as most ordinary Americans.

I understand people, and I think that my life and my history and what I represent can relate to a lot of the women, the independents, the moderate voters.

I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot of people.

We do not just have an idea of how someone else feels; we actually feel that way ourselves to some extent.