“I think that if you make something that's relatable then people will attach themselves to it. You can express it in a lot of different ways but I feel like as long as you are consistent and fair with the audience they'll engage irrespective of how they self-identify. I think it just gets too complicated to track all those differences between demographics.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayFeelsLongDifferentSelfDifferencesAudienceFairsTrackComplicatedDifferent WaysConsistentRelatableDemographics Author:Marc Webb
“I love when there's an obstacle to overcome, even for the audience to actually empathize with that character. I find that interesting, and then, how to work around that and make them relatable. That's something that you have to dig into the moments and into the performances and see how to play those situations that make them relatable.” PlayMomentsCharacterInterestingSituationAudiencePerformancesOvercomingObstaclesRelatable Author:Craig Gillespie
“[Sasha] for me it was a dream. I got to tell everybody where to go and how fast to get there. It was very exciting. It was still an Aaron Spelling show, with the hair and make-up and everything, but there were also motorcycles. For my life, at that time, it was such a perfect thing. I had all this inner anger to get out, and it was so exciting to get paid to do it. She had anger and sexuality and rebellion, but there was still that very sweet core. I didn't have to be something entirely unrecognizable or un-relatable. I just loved her to death.” StillsShowsDreamPerfectSweetHairExcitingPaidSexualityCoreRebellionRelatableMotorcycleSpellingVery SweetPerfect Things Author:Brigid Brannagh
“And then, movie-wise, I'm writing a couple of things. They're all comedies. It's the only way I know. I'm also being sent scripts, which is really nice, kind of off the back of this, so I don't necessarily have to generate my own stuff. I'm just looking for something that's explosively funny and relatable in equal measure.” KnowsWayWritingKindStuffMy OwnComedyWiseNiceCoupleEqualScriptsRelatableReally Nice Author:Dan Mazer
“I think good suspense and horror is really about creating situations that are relatable, and throwing a wrench in it and watching how people respond to it.” PeopleThinkingSituationHorrorCreatingSuspenseThrowingRelatableWrenches Author:Jason Blum
“I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it's poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple.” ThinkingWantEndsNextFeltSimpleUniversalMusicalMy FavoriteChaptersHookRelatableThe Next One Author:Taylor Swift
“You know, we had problems like any other family, so I'm really similar to a lot of people out there. It's kind of why I feel like if a song is relatable to me, it's most likely gonna be something a lot of other people are gonna relate to.” PeopleIfsKnowsFeelsKindProblemSongRelateRelatable Author:Aaron Lines
“I like things that are weirdly imaginative and couldn't be real, but I also like stories that are recognizable and relatable.” RealStoriesBeing RealImaginativeRelatable Author:Brian K. Vaughan
“I get that racism exists, but it's not a catalyst for my content. I don't need to talk about race to have material. My style of comedy is more self-deprecating. I think that makes me more relatable. When you deal with 'topics' - race, white versus black - you're not separating from the pack. You're doing what everybody else is doing.” ThinkingNeedsSelfBlackWhiteDealsRaceComedyStyleMaterialsRacismPacksTopicsVersusRelatableCatalystSeparatingSelf DeprecatingSelf Deprecating Humor Author:Kevin Hart
“Would I show my body off if I was thinner? Probably not, because my body is mine. I think I remind everyone of themselves. I'm not saying everyone is my size, but it's relatable because I'm not perfect, and I think a lot of people are portrayed as perfect, unreachable and untouchable.” PeopleIfsThinkingShowsBodyPerfectMinesSizeRelatableNot PerfectUntouchablesI'm Not PerfectUnreachable Author:Adele
“I hope that people can relate to my music, it's very relatable, it's very fun, it's very honest.” PeopleFunHonestRelateRelatable Author:Ariana Grande
“I hope that people can relate to my music, it's very relatable, it's very fun, it's very honest. It's very, very, honest. I know that my fans will probably learn a lot about me by listening to my music, if they really listen to the lyrics. I'm sure they'll learn about a new side to me, it's all very honest, I don't put on any... there's no fake-ness to it, it's very real and I hope my fans can relate to it and that it's enjoyable for all ages.” PeopleIfsKnowsRealAgeFunSidesFansHonestListeningRelateFakeEnjoyableRelatable Author:Ariana Grande
“I think I'm up for not trying to play a literary heroine. I think I'd rather just do someone that has just been created in a script, rather than in a book that everyone knows and loves. The difficulty with it and the reason these characters are so loved is that every woman and man that reads it understands it in a different way. They're so relatable, but different aspects will be drawn from different people.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMenWayTryingBookDifferentReasonPlayCharacterMen And WomenAspectAnd LoveDifficultyScriptsDifferent WaysDifferent PeoplesRelatableHeroines Author:Lily James
“The more that I travel, the more people that I meet, the more experiences that are really a testament to the kind of person that I am, and you hear about my experiences and my growth through my music. I think that that is really relatable.” PeopleThinkingKindPersonsGrowthTestamentRelatable Author:Zella Day
“I think it's nice to get a break from all of the big Hollywood comic book action-movies and see something that's relatable and funny and interesting.” ThinkingBookBigsActionInterestingBreakNiceHollywoodComicComic BookRelatableAction Movie Author:Aubrey Plaza
“I think it's because Po [from Kung Fu Panda] is such a geek, and he is so relatable. He is so excited by life and is excited to learn new things. I think that accessibility is something that we all can relate to, there are so many things we wish we could do but don't have the means to achieve it.” ThinkingMeanWishAchieveExcitedRelateNew ThingsGeekRelatableAccessibilityKung FuPandasKung Fu Panda Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson
“The films I like to watch are when they make it relatable to human audiences.” HumansFilmWatchesAudienceRelatable Author:Taika Waititi
“I think The Magicians takes these conventional ideas from this Christian literature of good vs. evil and it sort of shakes it up and asks a deeper, darker question about the nature of not just humanity in the face of good vs. evil, but the challenges of everyday life. And I think there's something incredibly timely about that and incredibly relatable to anyone who's growing up. Because we're all growing up. We're all constantly evolving.” ThinkingIdeasChristianFacesHumanityEvilAsksLiteratureChallengesGrowing UpGrowingEverydayDeeperEvolveShakesConventionalEveryday LifeMagicianRelatableTimelyGood Vs EvilShake It Up Author:Hale Appleman
“It's great to see a relatable, accessible young woman out there, doing things and breaking the barriers for what would be considered an action movie.” Would BeActionYoungBarriersYoung WomenRelatableAction Movie Author:Todd Lieberman
“I see conflict. But the conflict is what makes it relatable. I'm conflicted; you're conflicted. I'm not perfect - nobody is. I'm just blessed to be able to express my conflict through song.” AbleSongPerfectConflictBlessedRelatableNot PerfectI'm Not Perfect Author:Kendrick Lamar
“The good thing is in my case I'm all about love and communications, so there was no hard feelings, it was like ok we reached the end of this season and I wish you well and it's time to move on. As a pop song it's definitely open to many different interpretations, I received a call from a cousin saying that it helped her heal after an abusive relationship and another friend said it represented her of a summer fling. We tried to write carefully so that it can be relatable to cover a wide audience.” WritingWellsSaidDifferentEndsHardFeelingsMovingSongWishCasesAudienceCommunicationSummerSeasonsGood ThingsPopsWideHealInterpretationCousinRelatableWish YouAbusiveFlingPop SongAbusive RelationshipTime To Move OnDifferent InterpretationsWishing You WellSummer FlingLove And Communication Author:Alyson Stoner
“Great movie stars like Audrey Hepburn and Elizabeth Taylor who were capable of saying so much without saying anything at all merely by carrying themselves in a classic fashion that's timeless yet relatable.” StarsFashionCapableClassicTimelessMovie StarRelatableHepburnAudrey Author:Lily Collins
“Sometimes you can have a reputation for not being relatable and nice because you had a bad day once.” SometimesNiceReputationBad DayRelatableHad A Bad Day Author:James Corden
“As a filmmaker, you are constantly having the discussion with your team about whether something is "relatable".” TeamDiscussionFilmmakerRelatable Author:Chris Milk
“Sometimes you can have a reputation for not being relatable and nice because you had a bad day once. That's the thing. You know, I think that's particularly pertinent with Justin [Bieber] because, like, you just forget how young he is.” ThinkingKnowsSometimesYoungForgetNiceLike YouReputationBad DayRelatableJustinPertinentHad A Bad Day Author:James Corden
“I've been doing It's Aways Sunny for 12 years, and so I have this cable sensibility. When I read the Grinder script, I was like "this is edgy," which is great, but in a different way from Arrested Development. I feel like the characters are a little more relatable, so maybe that's the difference.” WayFeelsYearsLittlesDifferentCharacterDifferencesDevelopmentScriptsDifferent WaysSensibilityCablesRelatableArrestedSunnyEdgyGrinder Author:Mary Elizabeth Ellis
“It's a very familiar type of place where people either go to their house on the lake or they get together in different places. This was a normal, relatable place that I think a lot of people have in their childhood.” PeopleThinkingDifferentTogetherHouseChildhoodTypeNormalFamiliarLakesRelatableDifferent PlaceGet Together Author:Steve Carell
“I don't think that [Hillary Clinton] can turn around her honesty and trustworthiness problems with one speech, but she could present herself tonight as more relatable, give people a glimpse of that warm, funny woman the people who meet her in small groups and one-on-one say that she is.” PeopleThinkingGivingProblemTurnsGroupsHonestySpeechClintonWarmTonightGlimpseRelatableSmall GroupsTrustworthinessOne On OneFunny Women Author:Tamara Keith
“One of the most interesting things for me in playing another species is that you want to make them different enough to be alien but have enough human qualities to be relatable. This really forces you to look at what it is to be human from a totally new perspective!” WantHumansLooksDifferentEnoughForceInterestingQualityPerspectiveSpeciesAliensRelatableMost InterestingInteresting ThingsNew PerspectiveHuman Qualities Author:Jaime Murray
“I think if something resonates, even if it's surreal, it's because it is relatable and I think that that's a core issue for me.” IfsThinkingIssuesCoreSurrealRelatable Author:Charlie Kaufman
“I feel like when you're dealing with your main character, it has to be relatable and feel grounded, and that's the kind of acting I like to do anyway.” FeelsKindCharacterActingGroundedRelatableMain Characters Author:Alia Shawkat
“Any music star would be singing about his lost love. A movie would be about a relatable incident; it wasn't an untouchable magic dragon box. It was something that people could relate to, and when I vanished a girl, it would be a story about a girl that left me, or a cutting into pieces would be a date with a magician. I wouldn't just vanish a girl in a shower, I would do the shower scene from Psycho [1960] with a [Alfred] Hitchcock cameo.” PeopleStoriesWould BeGirlLostLeftStarsPiecesCuttingMagicSceneSingingBoxesRelateDragonsLost LoveShowersMagician1960sIncidentsRelatablePsychoHitchcockUntouchablesCameos Author:Judd Apatow
“It was a role [Dean Sanderson] I hadn't seen before, and yet it was very accessible and relatable at the same time. I read scripts that have one or the other, but I rarely read scripts that have both. And it was laugh-out-loud funny.” RolesLaughingScriptsLoudRelatableDeanLaugh Out LoudLaugh Out Loud Funny Author:Rob Lowe
“If you're going to play strength, you've got to marry that with a vulnerability and give your character some relatable qualities.” IfsGivingPlayCharacterQualityVulnerabilityRelatable Author:Katee Sackhoff
“The more you humanize superhero characters, the more they're relatable. The more they have a vulnerable point, whether it's emotionally or their superpower, or whatever, we relate the superpower or the loss of a superpower to their emotions. It's just fun to walk through that.” CharacterFunLossWalksEmotionVulnerableRelateSuperheroRelatableSuperpower Author:Bryan Cranston
“You either hear the story and you're curious, and you're sort of sympathetic, or you think, "Ugh, how horrible." That's dehumanizing. How about we take that and turn Christine Chubbuck into a person and it's not about the final act, it's about her life. I felt that really strongly, and I felt a sort of deep sympathy with her. It's also why I do what I do. I want to try to make difficult people somehow relatable.” PeopleThinkingTryingDifficultHorribleCuriousRelatableSympathetic Author:Rebecca Hall
“I love characters that are going through turmoil. To be honest, I love characters with conflict. I love characters who are really going through an emotional journey; whether it's a super-dark-crazy journey or a really relatable guy.” CharacterGuyJourneyHonestEmotionalConflictBeing HonestRelatable Author:Aaron Paul
“People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.” PeopleInspirationalUnderstandingMental HealthComplaintsRelatableUnderstand MeTranscendentalism Author:Soren Kierkegaard
“We expect kids to go straight from Shel Silverstein to William Shakespeare. There needs to be a bridge of relatable, fun, rhythmic verse that gets kids to cross over, so to speak, so they can appreciate Mary Oliver and Naomi Shihab Nye and Langston Hughes.” KidsSpeakFunAppreciateVersesRelatable Author:Kwame Alexander
“In a way I think why the Ghost story is very relatable to a large audience is that it's kind of a coming of age story and it's a realisation of 'I am what I am - what has happened to me, good or bad, that is the sum of who I am now'.” ThinkingKindAgeAudienceGhostComing Of AgeRelatableRealisationI Am What I Am Author:Rupert Sanders
“I'm not interested in being gratuitously relatable and broadening out what I do in order to reach more people. When I'm going into specific details of the trauma, I think it's the details that connect with people. I'm accidentally relatable - I didn't mean to be, and I didn't think I would be. It feels like what I'm saying on stage is quite shameful and possibly perverted; so for other people to be laughing and go, "Oh, yes, we understand that. We are like that too," is very lovely.” PeopleThinkingMeanLaughingTraumaLovelyNot InterestedRelatableShameful Author:Simon Amstell
“Whenever you create something that has a gay theme, it's inherently political. It's important that the intentions of the people behind the project be known. In discussing my sexual orientation, I found it to be germane to the topic of the film. It's what made The Green relatable and personal to me, but I've been out since I was 19. I've never been in the closet, so to say.” PeopleImportantFilmPoliticalGayIntentionRelatable Author:Paul Marcarelli
“Some people say the things I do are annoying because I'm intentionally trying too hard to be relatable, but I'm really not. It's never really been my intention; I've never gone out of my way to be relatable to anyone. I just say what I want, and I'm pretty blunt about things.” PeopleTryingIntentionMy WayAnnoyingRelatableBlunt Author:Lili Reinhart
“Love songs in particular are so compelling because love is probably the strongest emotion you can have, and I think it's relatable to absolutely everyone, whether it's unrequited love or love.” ThinkingSongLove IsEmotionUnrequited LoveRelatableUnrequited Author:Sam Smith
“I think we all spend, sometimes, more time at our jobs than we do at home, and there are people that we wouldn't necessarily choose to spend so much time with. So those irritations and those, just those situations I think are really relatable.” PeopleThinkingSometimesHomeSituationRelatable Author:Jenna Fischer
“I've never liked songs that are about writing, or struggling to write. Maybe it's because it's too relatable to me.” WritingSongStruggleRelatable Author:Courtney Barnett
“I'm asking the reader to suspend reality with me and entertain the idea that the person writing is not me. In order to do that well, I think, one needs to point out the artifice of the narrative. Somehow if the narrator is self-aware then it's almost more humanizing and more relatable.” ThinkingWritingRealityRelatable Author:Ottessa Moshfegh
“Family seems so rich and complicated to me. There's meant to be this unfailing biological loyalty and yet at the same time it's this theatre for various kinds of cruelty. I know it doesn't always work out that way, but the worst possible behaviour is sort of allowed for. It looks to me like an endlessly rich container for really terrible drama, but also pretty grand love. It accommodates such a variety of feeling in such a natural way, and it feels so relatable, and yet it's such a funny construct, socially, the family.” KindFeelingsNaturalRichWorstTerribleDramaVariousWork OutComplicatedTheatreLoyaltyCrueltyVarietyMeant To BeRelatable Author:Ben Marcus
“I came to terms with not fitting in a long time ago. I never really fitted in. I don't want to fit in. And now people are buying into that.” PeopleWantInspirationalLongTermFitLong TimeBuyingLong Time AgoRelatableFittingNot Fitting Author:Alexander McQueen
“Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?” ThinkingLoveForgetLearningSmartCleverRelatableThink Of YouMissing YouTime To ThinkBumperBumper StickerThinking Of YouThinking MindWinni The PoohFunny Bumper StickerFunny One LinerTao Of PoohPooh Bear FriendMind ThinkingCute Winnie The PoohWinnie The Pooh InspirationalThinking LoveJust Thinking Of YouI Will Remember You Author:A. A. Milne