Quotes About Empathy

If you love helping people, and you love trying to bring comfort and peace to their life at a very, very difficult time, you're going to have to look pretty hard to find a profession that gives you more opportunities than the funeral business.

In the biographical novel, there's only one person involved. I, the author, spend two to five years becoming the main character. I do that so by the time you get to the bottom of Page 2 or 3, you forget your name, where you live, your profession and the year it is. You become the main character of the book. You live the book.

Maintaining a relationship is easy when you both are in same profession because you understand the work pattern.

I would never be rude about somebody else in my profession because we all do this same thing. We're just trying to make people laugh.

Me and Aamir are like friends. We understand each other so well and it's easier I think as we have same profession.

Different people need different kinds of communication for it to have the same effect. That was something I had to learn.

The reason why I wanted to be an actor was to understand different people and cultures.

That's why I wanted to be an actor - to be everybody. Through all those different people I can learn about myself.

It is their job as actors to play different people. Should only a doctor play a doctor's role?

Everyone has their own battles, people feel bad all the time for different reasons. For me it was feeling depressed, anxious and out of place. But I wanted to give people something that could sit with them on their own personal level.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

I don't feel I have to charm somebody, I feel I want to know them; it's a different thing.

I just want to open people's eyes to different things.

I like to look at everything and appreciate seeing the different things that have meaning to people.

I live to experience different things. Part of what I love about acting is to live the lives of others.

Sometimes you need to put your own characteristics into the actor, and you take different things from the character that you admire - sometimes you can't see the boundaries anymore.

Every woman wants and needs different things. It's always best when you're honest and you speak up. It's hard to read minds.

As a child, I remember seeing what a struggle it was for both my parents to accommodate and adjust to the idea of not being together. They cared for each other deeply; they loved each other. They just couldn't stay together because they wanted different things from life and sometimes, it happens.

Having a daughter makes you see things in a different way. You have to see how you're carrying yourself because there's a little girl. There's not a little boy, there's a little girl. I think I'm a little more overprotective.

The idea of a cure for autism is itself controversial. Some people with autism say they don't want to be cured, because autism gives them a different way of looking at the world.

When I look back now, as an adult, I'm able to see my mom and grandmother in a different way that I didn't understand as a kid.

I'm grateful for laughter of any kind, but it can be off-putting if one person is laughing at a different time or in a different way from the rest of the audience.

One of the reasons we stay so alone in our lives is because we're ashamed to talk about the hard stuff. It's as simple as that. We're all in pain in different ways, and we don't get the help we need because we're too ashamed to talk about the pain.

To lead a group of players is to lead a group of people with different ways of thinking. You have to be prepared for that and know more than just about football. You have to speak a lot to the players, have to make them feel what you expect of them. Have to convince them. Therefore, it's very important for a coach to have a life outside football.