Quotes About Understanding

In my long experience, one thing I know is that truth is elusive.

As I often lecture businesses, it is not the email you send which matters, but how people feel when they read it.

Skimming is fine for our emails, but it's not fine for some of the important forms of reading.

My relationship with my mom is so amazing. We never got to have that stage that people go through, like when you're 13 and you think you're too cool for your parents. When you're embarrassed by them and stuff. We never went through that because I was constantly working and she constantly had to be there.

An actor has to embody a role.

If I can help one family embrace their child and not displace them and throw them out, I'm happy about that.

Embrace the humanity of everyone, especially those you don't understand.

Science does not emerge in some perfect, complete crystalline form.

When you act, you want to emote and think in that language. I don't enjoy the process of doing a film in a language I am not good with.

You can almost read any emotion through someone's eyes.

You can't express emotion without giving information.

The problem for me, with most movies for children, is that the filmmakers make the mistake of making it too simplistic. Where a child's world can be very complex, emotionally.

But I applaud my parents for they never really put us in hell. Whatever, emotionally, they were going through... they made sure they never took that out at home.

I think everybody needs to be more empathetic.

To be empathetic to everyone around you, I think, is such a powerful thing to hold.

I'm the angriest and most empathetic person you'll ever meet.

To go through the agonizing process of learning how to walk again and write again and speak again makes you much more empathetic to people.

I think when you're empathetic, you're putting yourself in somebody else's shoes, right? It's not about you.

Many really good films allow us to empathize with other lives.

When you truly empathize with someone, you have to take into account all the things that make that person who they are.

You've got to empathize with every character you play.

My school of thought with going into a character is that you have to understand where they come from, and you have to empathize with them.

If you can't empathize with other people, then you will never really be able to write well about them.

I tend to empathize with people, just in general.