Top 100 Relatable Quotes
#1. I gravitated to Judy Blume early on. 'Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing' was my favorite, with a realistic and relatable protagonist in Peter Hatcher. When I reached the fourth grade, I made the leap to science fiction and never looked back.
Jeff Kinney
#2. A deeply true, wholly aching account of the dangerous way we live now
LOVE JUNKIE is great fun to read, and finally fully redemptive. Rachel Resnick brings a light, delightful touch to a hard subject, and creates a great, relatable, readable memoir.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#3. 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!
Jaime Murray
#4. What makes a strong female character is a character who has weaknesses, who has flaws, who is maybe not immediately likable, but eventually relatable.
Tavi Gevinson
#5. You must read a lot."
"More than my friends think I should, but less than I'd like. Given the choice, I'd rather read than eat, sleep, or breathe.
J. Scott Savage
#6. I felt like laundry in a washing machine, when all I wanted was to be put on and become her favourite shirt.
Isabelle Ronin
#7. 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.
Mary Elizabeth Ellis
#8. Vulnerability gives us freedom, power and connects us to a network of injured souls. It is through the art of being real that we can heal ourself and others.
Shannon L. Alder
#9. I was convinced that she was about to tell me my card was declined, and assumed Derek wanting to talk later meant he'd soon be telling me our life was declined. Everything, everyone had reached their limits with me.
Joshua Mohr
#10. I think, you know, a lot of the business of comedy is taking your personal experiences and making them relatable to other people.
Kumail Nanjiani
#11. But then again, I shouldn't judge. That is, after all, my pet peeve.
Katie McGarry
#12. It's not like changing one word with my lyrics is going to make them more intelligible or relatable. I was always very misunderstood and taken as very pretentious and serious all the time. I would think, "Do you not see there's a lot of tongue-in-cheek and humor here?".
Paul Banks
#13. I consider that a man's brain is originally like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge that might be useful to him gets crowded out.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#14. The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.
Dan Scanlon
#15. Why couldn't a girl take over the kingdom? I dunno. It's stupid, but that's how it was.
Rick Riordan
#16. I was wide awake, and yet part of me was so glassed-off and numb I was practically in a coma.
Donna Tartt
#17. As an audience member, I live vicariously through the characters I watch or read about. There's something very relatable about comic-book characters. They're never perfect. They're flawed people put in extraordinary circumstances.
James Badge Dale
#18. Today, models are able to share industry news, trends, and communicate with fans through Twitter, Instagram and blogs. So in a way, our position as models is way more personable and relatable.
Karlie Kloss
#19. I never write anything without humor, just because I like humor, but at the same time, it is a way for anything fantastical to become relatable.
Joss Whedon
#21. But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get.
Sylvia Plath
#22. I think theater and church are so relatable because it's traditional call-and-response in the way that an audience interacts with the actors.
Danielle Brooks
#23. He'd really done something to be proud of now - no one could say he was just a famous name any more.
J.K. Rowling
#24. 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.
Aaron Lines
#25. I don't actually have any accounts, because social networking has always felt like a popularity contest to me. A public record of my own inadequacies.
Stephanie Perkins
#26. Depending on the story that you're telling, you can be relatable to everybody or nobody. I try and tell everybody's story.
Chance The Rapper
#27. 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.
Shawn Levy
#28. A great character needs trials to overcome - experiences to give them depth, to make them vulnerable, relatable, and likable. Good characters need hardships to make them strong. The idea makes sense, but it still sucks if you're the heroine.
Kelly Oram
#29. I speak languages with more ease than I read or write them, she explains. It is something in the feel of the sounds. I could attempt to put them on paper but I am sure the result would be appalling.
Erin Morgenstern
#30. Authenticity is what makes a relatable person believable. It is what makes the relatability sustainable. Anyone can fake relatability for a time, but authenticity is what makes it real.
Michele Jennae
#31. 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.
Kendrick Lamar
#32. If you wanna do a film where you have a big scope, you've got to make your characters relatable and genuine.
Jennifer Lee
#33. I think references, where they fit organically, are great. It's great to do a show that's real and relatable, and so much of what is real, is using real things and instances that are specific. Specificity is the best tool you can have, as a writer.
Mindy Kaling
#34. When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become supernatural. The hypothetical and the theoretical can become literal.
J.J. Abrams
#35. If I open up, it gets me, Dad. It gets me, and I don't know if I'm strong enough to stand it.
A.J.J. Bourque
#36. I like playing characters who are fractured, broken. I find that more relatable, for some reason. I don't feel that I'm like that myself by nature, but there's just something that you can really grab hold of if people have a darkness in them, I think.
Jamie Dornan
#37. Trust is the most important aspect of being a journalist. If people don't trust or find you relatable - you will not have success.
Gretchen Carlson
#38. I was fortunate enough to have baseball to teach me the values relative to success. The sport gifted me with leadership and team building skills that translate in a relatable way in the world.
Willie Wilson
#39. We are not antiheroes with a silver lining. And we are sure as hell not relatable or sympathetic.
Shane Kuhn
#40. I think it's a relatable concept - when you have a long-term relationship or marriage, and you want to try to be friends with that person, because you kind of grew up with that person and they know you better than anyone, and how it's just impossible to make that transition seamlessly.
Rashida Jones
#41. Every young male actor dreams of being James Bond in an action movie. And that's their first role. But the truth is, when it comes down to it, that's not relatable.
Brendan Dooling
#42. I was 'gay-bashed' when I was in school even though, you know, I'm not ... I'm a straight guy that just happens to be what I do. So, it's easily relatable to me. It was awful. It's a hard time in a kid's life.
Grant Gustin
#43. I have tried to be more relatable, but I won't be relatable to everybody.
Brian Posehn
#45. I'd always dread this part of being a guest in the morning - the tentative yielding into the house's normal traffic.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#46. Lemberger's stories are marvelous compounds of scholarship, imagination and empathy. Brought to life with rich historical detail, these biblical women, sidelined and silenced for centuries, prove to be audacious, utterly relatable, and spellbinding companions.
Michelle Huneven
#47. The most important thematics in humanity I think that are completely universal and completely relatable from one person to the other. As long as, one more time going to back to the thematic, as long as you're truthful to that thematic, you can trust that that is going to transcend.
Alfonso Cuaron
#48. I think 'The Wire' really is relatable. It reflects an ongoing issue across America, about inaccuracies in major cities between rich and the poor and some of the things that go on behind the red tape of council and government bodies.
Idris Elba
#49. There were a bunch of things we really liked right off the bat about a police precinct. We loved how instantly relatable it was. We loved how little exposition was required to tell people who these guys were and what they were doing.
Daniel J. Goor
#50. 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.
Tamara Keith
#51. Books, she thought, grew of themselves. She never had time to read them. Alas! even the books that had been given her, and inscribed by the hand of the poet himself: 'For her whose wishes must be obeyed' ... 'The happier Helen of our day' ... disgraceful to say, she had never read them.
Virginia Woolf
#52. The inspiration for my Vines comes from thinking about funny and relatable experiences from my daily life.
Lele Pons
#54. Teens wanted things that were real, that they connected with, it doesn't have to reflect reality directly. They love 'The Hunger Games' not because it's real in that it happens, but the emotions there are real, and it's very relatable.
David Levithan
#56. 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.
Charlie Kaufman
#57. I hope that people can relate to my music, it's very relatable, it's very fun, it's very honest.
Ariana Grande
#58. I accept the Old Testament as more of an action movie: blood, car chases, evacuations, a lot of special effects, seas dividing, mass murder, adultery. The children of God are running amok, wayward. Maybe that's why they're so relatable.
Bono
#59. The trials my father went through were things most young black males have to go through. There was nothing he shielded from me, because it doesn't matter how you grow up, those who oppress will oppress. It's all completely relatable; everyone feels NWA.
O'Shea Jackson Jr.
#60. Perfect heroines, like perfect heroes, aren't relatable, and if you can't put yourself in the protagonist's shoes, not only will they not inspire you, but the book will be pretty boring.
Cassandra Clare
#61. What we wanted to do was tell a story that felt relatable to anyone who's been a teenager. We haven't all been a second-generation Pakistani-American girl with superpowers, but we've all been 16 and awkward.
G. Willow Wilson
#62. Human experience is not nest and orderly, ready to be coded into predetermined categories. Real life is messy
Jennifer Gold
#63. To be honest, I think emotional accessibility is a shame trigger for researchers and academics. Very early in our training, we are taught that a cool distance and inaccessibility contribute to prestige, and that if you're too relatable, your credentials come into question.
Brene Brown
#64. 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.
Lily Collins
#65. 'The Voice' is not just a singing competition. It really comes down to how you come off as a person and how you connect with America with your story, and being relatable to people.
Judith Hill
#66. Welcome to life in a small town,' Jack said dryly. 'Where everybody makes it their business to put their noses in yours.
Cinda Williams Chima
#67. I think characters are most terrifying when they're relatable. It's best when your most horrible characters make sense, and are believable. That's when a movie is most terrifying.
Eli Roth
#68. 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.
Jason Blum
#69. If only others knew that Lady Calpurnia Hartwell, proper, well-behaved spinster, entertained deep-seated and certainly unladylike thoughts about fictional heroes.
Sarah MacLean
#70. I think there is something very relatable in the idea that you hit a certain age, later in your life, where you realize you have to pick up the rug and see what's underneath it and deal with stuff.
Gillian Flynn
#72. The really good stand up comedians can be angry but relatable, and they have interestingly humanizing personalities. Their observational skills are far greater than mine, so I'll just stick to reading lines off a page.
Kunal Nayyar
#73. For me, being transparent about every aspect of my life is what makes my music relatable and how I'm able to be an individual amongst the mass amounts of other artists.
Macklemore
#74. Period costume films are fun to discover, but they're not relatable. It's more, 'Wow, that's cool - did it really look like that back then?' Whereas with a comedy, you're like, 'Yeah, that's me, that's my friends.' No matter what, I want people to relate.
Paul Feig
#75. There was still a question in her eyes
one that she did not like to put into words.
Simone De Beauvoir
#76. At this point, caffeine wasn't for pleasure, it was sheer survival.
Stormy Smith
#77. If you haven't caused a scene in a psych unit, it's just because you haven't been inside long enough.
Victor LaValle
#78. I really embrace things that I think people who like music can relate to, they grew up with the same stuff and know the same references so when they hear it being used as a metaphor to something else they'll be like that's unique, or funny or something that's relatable to me.
Hoodie Allen
#79. It was just my reality, to never have a boy be interested in me romantically for more than one random moment. Like a TV show you don't like but you end up watching anyway, because there's nothing else on.
Siobhan Vivian
#80. We've all gone through some kind of betrayal, whether it's with a boyfriend or a friend or a family member. That's why this is so relatable to everybody because we all know what it feels like to feel that betrayal.
Cameron Diaz
#81. 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.
Todd Lieberman
#83. During my career I've enjoyed re-invigorating and contextualizing classic characters that are relatable to contemporary audiences.
David S.Goyer
#84. Everyone can be trusted. You just can't give them more than they can be trusted with.
Mikaela Bender
#85. Shrouded in his red cassock, he padded off to the bathroom lost in the silent ecstasy or wearing new socks.
Julia Stuart
#87. 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.
Willa Holland
#88. I like human stories. I like stories about situations we can relate to. I like movies like 'Ordinary People' or 'Terms of Endearment.' Mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, boyfriends, girlfriends. The stories to me that are worth telling are almost simple ones, but very relatable.
Chris Evans
#90. I love Cate Blanchett. She's extremely classy and has this knack for taking on roles and being very, very strong, but also embedding vulnerability. She has this relatable quality. I like the path she chose.
Ashley Greene
#91. We all have our
state of mind-
happy or sad,
sources of both
are so relatable.
Despite showing
someone's faults & flaws
we need to cherish them.
cause, we all are into an
e n d l e s s
l o o p.
Ayushi Jain
#92. 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.
Zella Day
#93. But that's how I felt in high school, sure that my people were from elsewhere, and going elsewhere, and that they would recognise me when they saw me. They would like me enough that it wouldn't matter if I liked myself. They would see the good in me so that I could, too.
Lena Dunham
#94. Everybody claims they have relatable, connectable characters, but those claims often aren't true.
David Walton
#95. Okay. I've got one. Do you think Pluto should still be considered an actual planet in its own right?"
"Much better. And yes, I do. I had to memorize the planets when I was in third grade, and it was one of them, and I don't like having to relearn things.
Claire LaZebnik
#96. Maybe loneliness is an acquired taste, or maybe it's like plunging your hand in ice water--it hurts like hell in the beginning, and then you go numb.
Tiffany Schmidt
#97. 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.
Steve Carell
#98. Let the desire to be understood become someone else's elusive dream. Accept we are all evolving & can be relatable mainly for reasons associated to self.
Truth Devour
#99. I've got troubled thoughts and the self-esteem to match. What a catch.
Fall Out Boy
#100. The number one thing I want my videos to be is relatable.
Lilly Singh
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