Quotes About Relatability

How comfortable it was to read about comfortable people!

I know I was a generic dysfunctional child, but I think a lot of people are.

I think when you're telling a story from inside of you that's genuine, people connect with it.

People really like the fact that I've worked at their job. It gives them a good feeling that I've experienced, even for a few hours, what they do on the job.

Good music tells a story that people relate to.

insisted that a speaker must begin his message from where his hearers are, not where he is.

It's really humbling and gratifying to see that people are finally realizing that we are talented and we have things to say and that our stories are just like your stories. There's no reason that anybody from Wisconsin or Turkey can't relate to 'Atlanta.'

I like girls that are down to earth, just like to have fun, and be themselves.

There are lots of theories that the simpler a comic character is drawn the more relatable they become. People can imprint themselves onto the gaps in the picture. The skill of cartooning is often working out how much can be stripped away.

I've always been interested in films where you can identify with the actors. Where you can be in their shoes and therefore be more involved if they're people that you recognize.

I never put myself on another level and that's done well for me. Just spending time with fans and acting normal and talking to them just like I was one of their boys, that's what it's all about.

The first thing I tell people is, I'm just an ordinary woman. I'm just like you, I say, I can see they don't believe me.

I see myself as anybody, as everybody; I'm not just telling the story of my life to give the reader a picture of who I am.

I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.

It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn't the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.

I hope that what it comes down to at the end of the day is that people believe that I believe what I'm singing. It comes down to being believable. You don't have to be likeable generally, though, I think I am.

If you will describe the people,—nay, if you will write for the people, you must be one of the people.

I feel like when people are talking about how they make music or how they are the biggest rapper, I don't understand how that's relatable to people.

I'd rate myself an 8. I do have my flaws, but I'm a cool dude. If I wasn't myself, I'd kick it with me. I'm a down-to-earth person and all around cool guy.

I think the key is to give the reader characters they not only care about, but identify with, and to never take away all hope.

Empathy is not as complicated when you have some aspects in common with your character; it's not impossible to know someone who's like you in many ways but different in one. This is true especially if you are a reader. Reading makes you accustomed to inhabiting other lives and sensibilities.

Basically, any time you have a real life experience, that can be a song. Because no matter how crazy or weird you are, somebody's had an experience just like you, somewhere.

And they didn't have to get into a lot of legal speak or talk ER terms, they were real people. I think that's why so many actresses were attracted to it. And it was just about problems that you could identify with so much, right off the bat.

I like movies that are about real people in real time with real problems.