Quotes About Empathy

I just think it's so much more rewarding and important to go around the world and bring people together as opposed to pushing people away.

We are not in a situation where the minorities are demanding something and the majorities are pushing back saying 'We don't want it.'

People can't pay you to care. People can't teach you to care. But when you find something that you care about, you give it everything you've got. You never settle. And you are always pushing to learn and be better and support those around you. All I've tried to do in my career is care.

I'm overcritical, insensitive, and pushy when it comes to me. With everybody else, I'm a great listener, and all I want is for them to be happy.

When you're trying to persuade people, more often than not, they feel you're being pushy. When you focus on influencing them, they're much less defensive and open to hearing what you have to say.

Listening is a positive act: you have to put yourself out to do it.

We put people at the center of everything we do.

I know that I'm not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don't know how not to.

I always put myself second - I like to make others happy.

I learned that leadership is about falling in love with the people and the people falling in love with you. It is about serving the people with selflessness, with sacrifice, and with the need to put the common good ahead of personal interests.

If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.

Seeing my father's handwriting puts me in contact with the man he was at each stage of his life.

Three trans women came up to me separately to tell me they had felt such a connection with Ava in 'Ex Machina' and her dream of finally coming to full female fruition. They had all cried; one said she was very emotional during the scene where Ava finally puts her skin on for the first time.

When I was in theater I was forever trying to inhabit a space which puts yourself under the microscope as an actor and your personality and your take on life, but actually through another portal of a character.

Washington, D.C., puts enormous burdens on people who, at the end of the day, are just humans.

Service is a powerful pathway of getting out of loneliness. It takes the focus off of you and puts it onto someone else.

When you play characters, you shouldn't just be putting on their characteristics - you should be finding it inside yourself.

The films you do are not just for the audience. As an actor, you are putting your heart and soul into them.

When you see someone putting themselves out there, particularly when you see someone is failing and failing so passionately, it brings up this bittersweet connection to our mortality.

Inevitably, when a scene isn't working for me, it's because I'm being self-conscious, and I'm not putting enough of my focus on my fellow actor.

I just feel that getting out there physically and protecting New York, putting my arms around everyone and protecting them... to see this happen to our city and our community.

We do spend time talking about it and we puzzle through it together. We ride the roller coasters together - the high highs and the low lows.

I would be happy if I were Jesus. I'd like to fix everyone else's problems more than my own.

If anything needs to get fixed in society, it's people's consumption of other people's problems.