Ruthie Ann Miles 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.'

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.

Sonya is the way she is for a reason and I love enlightening the fans on what those things are because so many people are going through similar experiences and have amazing stories I love to hear and relate to myself.

I want people to see some of their own humanity no matter who they are.

People are people, and they want to know about their own experiences.

The ideal way to approach a character is to find something in yourself that relates in some way.

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.

I think my job is hopefully to connect with people emotionally and to feel less alone or understand things in a certain way.

I had discovered that I'm much less special than I thought I am. So whatever I find true for myself, other people might also relate to.

The thing that inspires me most is empathizing with people's flaws and seeing how they deal with them. That sort of connection you feel with someone when you realize that maybe even the negative things that they've said or done are because of insecurities or injuries they've endured.

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

It definitely seems like we are connecting with people, which is nice, because I've had a lot of music do the same for me. It's not like I don't I understand why we get the reactions we do.

At the end of the day, you have to find the humanity in you in each character.

People could empathize with other people who had gone through the same experience as they had.

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

Sometimes, we only get to know someone as one aspect of who they are. Then you start peeling back the layers and understanding more and more about who they are - their vulnerabilities, their fears, their joys, all those other words that equal humanity.

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

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

Whatever the reason is, I am happiest when connecting with the human experience. It lets me know that I'm not alone in this world.

You can play women who have a face on or who zip something up, but you have to dig deeper to actually find the humanity and real aspects.

I think that human beings are often looking for a reason to relate.

The last page of [Lincoln in the Bardo] - without giving too much away - involves somebody entering somebody else. Not in a sexual way. But it says one of the simplest things you could ever say, which is that we must try and be inside each other. We must have some kind of feeling for each other and enter into each other's experience.

I think our music is more about seeing ourselves in each other and trying to find a more humanistic viewpoint for the world.

Like anything, you've gotta find the humanity in the characters.