Samantha Power Quotes

You want people - I want people to relate to me as a character. I want them to go, 'That could have been me,' or, 'I know someone like that.'

If you want to persuade people, you've got to talk with your heart. You've got to talk about why your policies matter to them.

I think that talking about the personal specificity, personal details, is how you get the big, big audiences - by talking about your relationships or your personal tragedies. If you reach out with that energy, you'll touch people.

Human beings have a lot of problems identifying themselves with other human beings who don't resemble them exactly. But there's something about drawing that means that anyone can identify to a drawing. I mean, people can identify themselves with Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse.

So I'm sorry, I'm going to continue to talk to the people, because I do believe that if they get to know you and what you are as a human being, they can more appreciate what you are as a performer.

The one thing people like about my show is it's universal. Everybody can relate to it. I think people enjoy going to a show and saying, 'Something like that happened to me.'

People see truth in my films. That's what they react to, and that's what they relate to.

As human beings, we aren't as individual as we'd like to believe we are. And I think that's what makes acting possible. Despite the fact that I have not experienced something, I have it in my human capacity to imagine it and to put myself in someone else's shoes, and to take someone else's circumstances personally.

I try to connect with the everyday, every guy.

If you show you're human and have something to say, people will connect with you.

I love stories about people that, whatever situation they're in, you can relate to them in a way.

It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.

I just think that good stories are stories that reflect ourselves back at us and each other.

The more you allow yourself to be vulnerable, the more people will be able to relate and learn from you, because we're all human.

There's been so much that I've shared with the world, and by doing so, it's helped me connect with others on a whole new level. I love that, as I want people to watch 'Total Divas' and be able to relate themselves to what we go through. My hopes are that they realize we are all in this 'thing called life' together.

I do think that the strongest character is somebody that you can connect with to your personal self, or at least find the humanity in both of you and start from there.

We strive to do stuff that connects with people.

If I had to name my superpower, it's probably empathy.

I'm trying to use myself and my own flawedness as a metaphor for general human experience. I'm trying to 'stand next to' a subject, whether it's Bobby Knight or Vince Carter, and use that subject to meditate on both him and me.

I dream of doing something where people are like: 'That's different, but it's still something I can relate to,' because that's the way of moving forward.

I am most attracted to characters and stories that I can relate to. The traditional formula of 'larger than life' I never found attractive.

If you want to get an idea across, wrap it up in a person.

When people have points of reference that are humanizing, that demystifies difference.

Even if the character is something that seems ridiculous on paper, there's a human element to everything. Otherwise, we don't connect with it.

If you put your personal stories out there people always connect.