Quotes About Empathy

Be comfortable in your own skin. Comfort and discomfort are contagious.

Writing about feeling disconnected has enabled me to connect, and that has been the most lovely thing of all.

This is a place where you can go, that you can feel safe and look inside yourself and discover yourself.

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it. Either the character helps you discover that element of you or the other way around, where that element of you helps you discover the character.

It's always lovely to discover that the people that you kind of look up to are actually very down-to-earth people.

I discovered you can get closer to a character's thoughts and feelings in a book than in a film.

Meeting someone who likes what I've made is like discovering a brother or sister.

The experience of reading is very interesting because you put yourself in the character's shoes and everything they're discovering, you marry the experience.

Cancer does not discriminate.

No one should discriminate.

I don't appreciate people who discriminate on the basis of colour.

Discrimination in any form is wrong. I don't support discrimination in any form.

There is absolutely no room for discrimination against anyone in our country or anywhere in world.

We have to take a greater stand against discrimination of all kinds.

We need to put an end to discrimination against women, and the power to bring about this change lies in our hands.

I feel bad that I never discussed my mother's life and times as a career woman with her.

It's important to learn how to have conversations with other people where it's not debating but discussing.

If we know it's happening, and we're not having the discussion, we're contributing to the problem of making it seem like people can't open up.

Discrimination is a disease.

Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive.

Diabetes is a lousy, lousy disease.

The thing about losing any loved one, I think, particularly in a long disease, is that you know that other people have gone through it and are going through it, but I think for every person it feels unique.

You are no less or more of a man or a woman or a human for having depression than you would be for having cancer or cardiovascular disease or a car accident.

For those who are so courageously battling these terrible diseases, the least we can do is not stand in their way.