Carl Barks Quotes

Although my stories are all very different on the surface, I like to write stories about characters struggling with big problems. I'm always reminded, no matter how different from me one of my characters is from me on the surface, how we're all pretty much the same underneath.

As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself.

The audience likes a speaker with the same weakness and the same virtues that they themselves have.

Never underestimate the capacity of another human being to have exactly the same shortcomings you have.

There's no way for me to know, but my best guess, as it must be for everyone, is that other people are pretty much like me.

I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least.

I'm a normal, horrible, screwed up human being like everyone else. I mean, I'm not horrible person, but I'm just as screwed up as anybody.

I like it that in many ways we are all the same.

People are not so dreadful when you know them. That's what you have to remember! And everybody has problems, not just you, but practically everybody has got some problems. You think of yourself as having the only problems, as being the only one who is disappointed. But just look around you and you will see lots of people as disappointed as you are.

I think we are drawn to anti-heroes because that is what most of us are most of the time and it is good to see that we are heroic.

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.

Every single character I've ever played has a little bit of me in them just because every single human in the world has a little bit of everything in them.

No matter where you come from, we all share the same struggles as human beings, and my beginning is no different.

Somewhere, the audience relates to my characters and their vulnerability. I believe they see themselves in me.

I want to be able to show people that I have flaws and they have flaws, too. And you know what that means? No one out there is perfect.

I want someone to be able to say, 'I relate to this person on The Five.' You feel like you belong. You kind of feel like it's family. They feel like they know us because we reveal so much about ourselves on the show.

I want someone to look at me and find a little of themselves in me.

We're all human; we all have weaknesses.

I think as long as I can tell you a story about people that you understand, it doesn't matter if you don't like what they do; you understand why they did it.

I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.

People know my story - how I started like they did and that I struggled with things, like being a working mom. They ask me things they wouldn't ask anyone else.

When you are given a character, there are times when you can relate to two out of 10 things of the character, and then there are times when you can relate to eight out of 10 things.

To be truly empathetic, we have to acknowledge that we're all human, we're all flawed, and that life can be difficult.

I'm a normal person. I'm just like you and just like everyone else - I have feelings and thoughts.

I think that YA stories have a lot of heart, and I think that whatever age we are, we connect to them because we sort of see ourselves in them.