Quotes About Empathy

In the fight, we are fighters, but after, we have respect for each other.

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging those around you to do the same.

There is no force more liberating than the knowledge that you are fighting for others.

Although everyone fights, few people know how to have a good argument, an argument that clears the air and makes it less likely a future argument will take place on the same subject.

I hate fights. I try to talk people out of fighting if I can and if they start I run away.

Don't try to walk in someone else's shoes - literally and figuratively. Wear what you feel confident in.

What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn't you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed.

I'm still trying to figure out what the right line is between myself and the people I play. Sometimes I go too far one way or too far the other.

I've figured out over the years, you can only hurt me if I love you; if I don't know you, I really don't care.

If you read literature, you put yourself in somebody else's shoes. You learn from great figures in literature.

If public figures came out of the closet, then the LGBT kids who saw them on TV would feel safe before they even knew why they felt dangerous. Maybe if enough people came out of the closet, gay kids would never feel dangerous. Maybe we could have a world where we could all just live. We may not all agree, but why can't we just all live?

I think I'm still figuring out how to be a little less selfish.

People didn't like me; I was loud and aggressive. People can take it from a 42-year-old, but when you're a little kid, and people are like, 'You're loud and awful,' you think, 'I guess I am awful,' so writing and figuring out how to put things into words was the way I felt better.

I love figuring people out.

I don't really know that there's a sign that someone is going to file for divorce with no face-to-face conversation.

I empty myself out and fill myself with the character. I would play a devil worshipper, and I would fill myself up with whatever devil worshippers believe. Then, as myself, I empty that out and become Nelsan.

Once you fill yourself with love, then you will have love to give to the rest of the world. This is my philosophy.

I just don't know that we're as filled with hate as cable news leads us to believe. It's hard to hate up close.

I had such a close relationship with my dog, and my dog so filled the need in my life to have children that I just wanted Cathy to have that experience.

When I'm making a film, I'm the audience.

I used to not listen that much, but I've really learnt to listen to other people and to really listen to what they're saying. I've found, especially being on a film set, people have so many different stories; if you just listen, you can pick up so much stuff. I try to listen as much as I can.

On a film set, it's important to be good at your work, but it's also important to be a compassionate and understanding human being.

You try to get to know your character as best as you can before you start filming - what's written and not written.