Quotes About Relatability

The President must not be such a distant person.

Everyone wants to be funny. Maybe not everyone, but to an extent.

In television - not film, and not factual, nothing else - within television, likeability is everything, and relatability is everything.

To connect with the characters, you need to connect with the world. If the world feels vaguely familiar, I believe the characters will feel relatable.

It's human to want to compare things we know to lay on something we are familiar with. It gives comfort.

It's so cool though when I see thirty-year-old men that are coming in to watch my shows. It's like, 'You really like my music? Like a teenage girl, you relate to it?' It just proves how much people are alike.

I like the idea that I can talk to any teenage girls. You know, in a language that makes sense to them.

Let me speak for myself: I think I wanted to see people who looked like me on TV. I wanted to see people who had similar experiences as I had, growing up. There was nobody on television when I was a teenager who I could relate to.

I feel like a teenager myself, so I appreciate it when the kids think you're all right.

Everyone seems to relate to the awkwardness of being a teenager, or even a 30-year-old.

You better have your story down before you take it to a teenager.

I think that at 21, I still look like I'm 17 years old, so I feel like I'm going to be playing teenagers for a while, and that's a very relatable stage in a teenage life for a female - that kind of rambunctious stage.

I think you've got to be able to relate to what teens are going through.

I don't think of myself as anything more than a person who sits in the living room with you telling you a story. I just happen to be in 16 million living rooms.

I never really think about myself really, but I hope I'm no different whether it be on the radio or telly or on a podcast. It's about being genuine, and approachable and accessible, not talking at people but with people.

Stories are the currency of human relationships.

Until that moment, I only saw Jesus as the Son of God. I knew he had come down to earth, but that night for the first time it dawned on me: He understands me. He walked in my shoes! As a matter of fact, he was sort of a toogee. You know? His daddy — his earthly father — wasn't his real daddy. He slept in the straw as a child. He was ridiculed and abused. They chased him and tried to kill him.

Let's hear it again! The sweetest sound your conversation partner can hear from your lips when you're talking with a group of people is Tell them about the time you . . .

Jews are just like everyone else, only more so.

Writing songs is about trying to connect with people on a deeper spiritual level - but I'm not a fan of contemporary Christian music.

Jesus was immeasurably more human than other human beings

Her tone was breezy. That, she thought, was the best way to talk to teenagers—about anything. You talked to them in that way, as if you were not expecting them to be listening to you—which, of course, they were not.

I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.

Even if a story has nothing to do with my life, if I can recognise something of myself in the character and think, 'Oh yeah, that's what I'd do...' yeah, that's what I look for.