Character Quote by Stan Lee

It is very difficult to play a character you can't relate to.

— Shamita Shetty

I think you always need to be able to relate to your characters, but that doesn't necessarily mean...you have to understand why they do…

— Natalie Portman

The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

You can be empathetic to a character in a book in a way that you can't with a real person, which is weird, because…

— Hank Green

When you don't have a main character that's flawed, I don't know how you relate to that person.

— Sam Esmail

To read a character I'm not sympathizing with is generally quite a good, attractive proposition because I've got somewhere to go, I've got work…

— Rebecca Hall

You have to find something you relate to in every character.

— Aya Cash

I think as readers we put ourselves in the protagonist's place because we want to be like that person. That's why sometimes we don't…

— Elizabeth Wein

I feel like there are things I can relate to in every character. But I feel like when you read a script, you don't…

— Martin Starr

I think there has to be an empathic strike between the reader and the protagonist. There has to be something said or known that…

— Michael Connelly

The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

In terms of the character itself, I can't really say that I find anything really difficult. I enjoy the character so much I don't…

— Ron Glass