Quotes About Empathy

I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.

All I have to do is be me on stage. But acting, I have to be someone else, and walk how they would walk and blink how they would blink. I used to talk about it bad like, 'Aw man, that person made $10 million a movie?' But now I understand why they do. I get it now.

I just make sure that people around me are fine. There is not a lot I can do anymore. Just support the people. Be with them. But at the end, I've got to go play. And after, we can talk again. But I have to kind of block it for two hours.

I would give up everything rather than have the blood of white men upon the hands of my people.

I did not want my people killed. I did not want bloodshed.

He would take the blow so you didn't have to.

A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.

It's very strange to become a character: the lines get blurred, and you start to sort of, I don't know, take it home too much?

No matter how much wealth anybody has, family problems are about the same across the board.

Violence against the other, and the way we otherize people out of fear, has to be examined across the board.

I'm first-generation American - my people came over on boats - and I think it's a shame to close the door on people who really need freedom.

One of the greatest listeners I know is Bob Tishman. That has probably had the greatest impact on my life than any other thing.

We're kind of doing what Bob McAllister did with 'Wonderama,' which is making people realize that kids are people, too.

Bob felt everything that happened around him, and he put that reality into his music. And those things are still happening, which is why his music endures. It is music that still has meaning in people's lives. And you can dance to it.

Look at Bob Dylan: his voice is not a great sound, but it gets the idea across... and that is what's really important.

I hope to teach people that it's fine to make mistakes because they will learn from them, to be who they are, and to learn to love their bodies.

At the end of the day, we all have issues with our bodies.

I love body language.

When you're actually talking over someone, it's as if you're just pontificating and they're not even there. And their body language - they're trying to get away from you. And if you're pontificating at an audience, and there's a break, the non-martyrs in the audience are not going to come back. I mean, they just want to get away from you.

You can't bomb a people just in case.

Family is just the people you care about. We can bond with people that we have nothing in common with, even if it's just for a moment.

Actors bond really quickly.

It's not that players feel no emotional bond to a team. When you've given so much of your career to a club, you can't help but feel affection towards them.

My parents say I bond with kids very well, but I am always fighting with them. I don't know how to handle them.