Quotes About Relatability

Unlike the Congress or the BJP leaders, who are away from people, I am not. I mix with people, and I know how they feel. That gives me an edge over the Congress and the BJP.

As I experience life, my music is gonna evolve. At the same time, I still do tell the stories from my world because there are unlimited stories and unlimited people from that place. I'll always represent them. As my life begins to change and I do different things, I still want to be able to tap in and relate to them.

The bulk of my fans are my age, and I'm aging at the same rate they are. That makes me relevant. They like hearing what I have to say. I work hard at it, but it's addicting, really.

If you'd asked me then if I saw how big 'The Steve Harvey Morning Show' was going to be, I couldn't tell you. But I knew I could reach people not as a character but as Steve Harvey, because although I tell jokes for a living, I've also lived, and I think I can relate to you more than you know.

I used to tell people I was a comic and they'd be fascinated. Now all you get is: 'Oh yeah, my cousin Steve's a comic.'

I talk to the audience like I talk to my friends on the stoop.

Honestly, my goal is just to let people hear my story and just like, feed everybody that could relate to my story in any way.

I want everyone who's listening to know who I am and not just see me as this singer. I want them to feel connected to my story.

When you write stories linking reality to a big storyline, people relate to it better.

I'm simple in my approach and straightforward. I connect with the average person that is interested in food.

People feel like they know me, in a strange way, like they grew up with me or they went to high school with me!

Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another: 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one.'"—C. S. Lewis

The odd thing about comedy is that the more personal you are, the larger the audience.

When I watched The Outs,' I was like, 'Oh my god, this is just such a great, grounded, lived-in story about people my age living where I happen to live.'

I didn't live in L.A. I lived in Oklahoma, and I liked to do normal things with normal people.

I am an average good Christian, when you don't push my Christianity too far. And all the rest of you—which is a great comfort—are, in this respect, much the same as I am.

don't start talkin about books or quotin poems at them. these is good folks but they ain't real crazy about readin books. just do what i do and you'll be all right.

Friendship, I have said, is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself..."

I'm just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living.

So much of my career has been about saying things the way people say them, using melodies not that I can sing but that the people can sing.

Despite being the greatest, Messi is an ordinary guy. He speaks like a normal guy, he acts like a normal guy. As a normal person, he has family, day-to-day problems in his life, friends and family, the usual.

My characters are always utterly sympathetic to me, if that makes any sense.

Films are big hits when they touch a lot of people. Things are not funny in a vacuum, they're funny because we respond to some personal dislocation, some embarrassment, some humiliation, some pain we've suffered, or some desire we have.

I think what happens with a lot of writing and art is that specificity ends up being relatable while universality becomes vague.