Any actor who is being honest will admit there's always a small or large part of the real you in every character. It's impossible not to have that.
Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.
But in another, I think a woman's going to go into a shop to find a coat or a jacket and I just don't think she's not going to go into a shop because of a bad review she probably didn't even read.