Quotes About Empathy

I don't think you should exploit your own pain.

If we created a society based on love, it would be a society without exploitation.

I'm drawn to people who look different. I'm not exploiting. I'm not making fun of them. I'm drawn to them.

I love the exploration of someone who has such a different background from you. That exploration runs to compassion and to cracking yourself open and creating more understanding of how weird and amazing life is.

It's funny to say its fun to explore someone's really rough time, but it is. It's exciting.

I think it's a bit short-sighted to play any character and not explore, in some respects, the way they act when things get really bad.

I'm someone who likes to explore the complexities in people.

Fat people aren't just fat people; they have so many layers to them, just like anybody else, that I think should be explored.

What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.

Part of the reason of being an actor is you like playing other people's lives and exploring all the psychologies in that and the emotions.

I'm always exploring other people: trying to figure out myself, trying to figure out everyone.

In all of my work, I think I'm exploring the idea that we are aliens to each other, how there is a huge distance that separates us all.

Building a character - nothing gives me more high than the process of exploring someone else's life on screen.

People have to deal with their issues together; they have to expose themselves and kind of exhaust themselves.

In my child's-eye view, whenever I was exposed to pain, it meant that my mother had let me down.

I think my mom exposed me to the concept of using your voice for anything you care about.

Men need to learn how to treat a woman, and I feel like through this dancing, it definitely gives you that exposure.

I just think people should be able to express themselves.

I am so used to being able to express myself from being an actor. So when people don't understand me, I'm just completely lost.

Part of being an artist is that you want to express yourself to as many people as possible. But you don't want to exclude anyone.

It is very important that you can express yourself, especially at half-time in a changing room, which is the crucial time for a manager.

It's great to express yourself and tell other people's stories and get into the minds of people who aren't like you.

I'm not a hater. I've expressed this before.

I think I need to play somebody who expresses themselves and is able to communicate on a more open level, something really different.