Quotes About Empathy

Movie acting is primarily listening. If you're really engaged, that's all a movie audience wants to see is you processing what's happening in your world.

I definitely, really appreciate that quality that humans like to show constantly, even without saying anything, that they're with you and they're processing something.

For me, writing became a way of processing not just my own experiences, but the experiences of other people, and their pain.

One of the challenges of my job is relaying the magnitude of information coming through in a reading, and when I'm overwhelmed in processing a feeling because of how intense it is, my brain resorts to calling it 'immense' for some reason.

Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.

You want your fans to like what you do, because it's coming from your heart and soul. You write it, you produce this thing. It's like your baby.

I don't care what you play, where you're from, who you produce. It depends on what you're doing when you're with me. That's what counts. I don't pre-judge anything or anybody.

As an actor, you're listening to the other person and always trying to be present and take everything they're giving you, but when they're not there, you have to produce that yourself.

I here ask pardon of all my compatriots for everything of which I have been guilty towards them. I know that, by my ill-considered and immature works, I have brought distress to many and that I have even provoked others to attack me openly and, in general, have produced displeasure in many.

Part of the job of being a producer is the Vulcan mind meld, where you listen not to what they're saying but what they mean.

I have a producer friend who despairs that I come across as rather frosty and never show the real me, and she might have a point.

I'm a very good listener. I think that's one of the things that makes me a good producer. But it's a challenge for me because my custom is to listen and absorb what someone is saying and take it in, and not necessarily comment.

The good thing about not speaking the language is you just listen. You listen to everyone, every producer, every writer.

I think I'm a people person. I get very attached to people. And I've become so attached to all the people on my show, the cast, the crew and the producers.

My dad never had a bank balance of more than three lakh and was always extremely compassionate towards his producers.

What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.

I want to become an actor whose productions will get people to say, 'there are lives like that,' when they watch me, and I want to become a singer who can tell people's stories.

If you have a good self-esteem, you can be generous, you can give back and you can be productive in the world.

Shaming people isn't productive. That makes you feel bad about yourself.

How is it that you profess love for God but can't accept another human being?

People profess to have certain political positions, but their conservatism or liberalism is really the least interesting thing about them.

European authors often write books about the rest of the world that profess a vision of shared humanity but fall far short, casting the other as exotic or dangerous.

There's lots of interesting jobs in the profession besides acting, and I like to try and keep an eye on and understand other people's jobs, rather than just my own.

Acting is the most brotherly and sisterly profession in the world.