Marques Brownlee Quotes

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.

I'm okay if everything is honest and truthful and relatable. If it's fabricated and ill-motived, it's not good.

I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books.

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.

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.

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

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

Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.

If there is honesty in your face, the battle is won. It doesn't have to be the most beautiful face in the world. The audience can relate to you then. They feel love, not lust, for you.

Because of the nature of my brand, it's so important our readers know it really is me behind my keyboard.

I want viewers to relate to me on a different level, not just a sexual level.

You have a physical human reaction to something that another human being made. When you remove the human from it, and you chop it up, make it all perfect, you have a different reaction. Something is not there. You can feel it when it's there.

We are part of the zeitgeist, and we are communicating in a human, real way.

I'm genuine, and I think people can see that when they watch.

Everything I promote and sell, I use on a daily or I wouldn't sell it.

I've talked with friends about this: when you write about yourself, that's what people connect to. When you write a sermon or a lesson, that may not reach people. I've learned a lot from people who have been writing about themselves.

You know what matters? Touching people. Being a real person. Because when you're in front of real people, they gon' give you a real reaction.

I play on my honesty. Audience like me because they find me honest.

I think the movie, 'Joy,' has so many touchpoints with so many people because it is about the ordinary, but a lot of the times, the ordinary is extraordinary.

Young people are craving something real, craving authenticity.

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

I'm more interested in people the way they are than what they've done onscreen before. So I don't worry much about the acting skills or the name, the status. I just think, 'Do I believe this person? Do I like them? Are they interesting, complicated, have the right aura, energy?'

All of the advice that I give, I'm not an expert by any means, but it's just my opinion. So if somebody likes me or likes y style or my career, I think they should have that feeling.

I've come to realize that people connect more when they know you're telling them the truth or some aspect of your story, some mutated version of how you are experiencing this life.

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