Quotes About Empathy

A good way to tell if a psychic is authentic is, if they are going to verbalise these things, it should be with the intention of helping the person.

I always think I could play a fantastic psychopath. I'd like to play a psycho. With a heart, you know. A caring lunatic.

So Am I' is sonically like similar to 'Psycho' and energy-wise.

I want to play so many different characters. I want to, like, understand so many different people, and psychoanalysis, everything. I love that about my job: getting into the character and understanding it and doing the psychoanalysis and creating that character.

It's easy to make rude comments simply for the sake of being rude, but I'd much rather go a more psychological route.

If we are able to get inside the music and inhabit it convincingly enough, it will cause everyone to find each other in this new psychological space. And that's most exciting.

What I've come to believe is that psychological advice isn't worth much if it isn't rooted in personal experience.

The average human being in America is going through some sort of hard times - physical, emotional, psychological. Everybody's carrying a bit of bone days in them.

I might have been a psychologist. It interests me.

To be in theater you have to be a kind of psychologist, for you're always trying to understand character and motives.

I want to be a psychologist.

For me, I saw a psychologist because I wanted to connect more with people, with the earth, my environment. I want to connect more to my family.

I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character's sexuality is fascinating. It's a great way to really get at the root of their identity, because it's such a personal thing.

I suppose every filmmaker, at least the filmmakers I really like, are amateur psychologists to a degree. Or they come from a psychological approach, I guess.

What actors are involved in is a similar sort of psychological forensic examination of the characters they're playing. You try to have an idea about why somebody does what they do and you try not to be in judgmental about it. That is what psychologists and psychotherapists aim to do with their patients.

To me, the psychology behind the character is critical. So I work very hard to get into the mind of the man that I'm going to be playing, because number one, I want to understand why he's doing what he's doing. It's essential, it's absolutely essential.

I think any role you need to play not so much transforms but I like to think of it as understanding the psychology of another character.

I find that communication as an actor and person is an important part of who I am. And I'm really drawn into the psychology of those dynamics.

Counterterrorism isn't really about the nunchakus, the guns and gadgets. It's about psychology.

If we knew more about psychology, we would be better equipped to deal with other people's psychological damage which they might project onto us.

I am seriously interested in the psychology of childhood. And I've given a lot of my life to trying to see questions of personal development, as well as the great issues of the day, from a child's point of view.

Persuasiveness takes finesse; it takes an understanding of human psychology. And intention is everything.

One of the many joys of being an actor is to understand the human psychology.

Everybody wants a robot that will do psychotherapy. But If you don't have empathy, you don't have psychotherapy. The robot doesn't know about life.