Quotes About Empathy

When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

What I loved about romances was the character, and I think I still bring that to my novels. What romance taught me was that the 'who' will always matter more than the 'what.' It's fun to come up with plots, but I want to make sure the reader cares about who it's happening to.

I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater.

The way theater can bring people together is so powerful.

I grew up in Houston, and I remember we had separate drinking fountains, and black people sat in the balcony of the theater... We had an African-American housekeeper growing up who was really like my second mother. I thought it was silly - hatred just because of the color of somebody's skin.

Maybe what I'm trying to do is heal others. I think what we're trying to do in theater is heal someone.

When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!

The more you go to a theatre and the more you hear stories you aren't necessarily familiar with, the more open you become.

When I am shooting, I am inside the theatre, when I am in the editing room, I am inside the theatre. I always try to feel what they will feel. I see a film, not as a director, but as the audience. If I am entertained, they will be, too.

Theatre demands different muscles and different aspects of one's personality.

First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people.

In our own, theatre can be the place where we come together, reaching with and through stories, to who we are and to who we can be.

I love storytelling and I love just relating directly to an audience. That's why we do theatre, it's because we love contact with the audience. We love the fact that the audience will change us. The way the audience responds makes us change our performance.

My mum is a theatrical person. I saw a tape of a theatre project she did when I was a kid. I was really affected by the idea that my mum could turn herself into someone else for the purpose of telling a story.

The theatrical experience is also a communal one. When people saw 'Fruitvale' in the theater, there was not a dry eye at the end of the movie, and you would look to your neighbor and have this shared moment together that had a real weight behind it.

It didn't work but I always wish her the best. I'm really proud of her. Thee Megan I know and thee Megan ya'll know are two different things. It's still love, we just didn't see eye to eye.

Citizens identify with something larger than themselves - if one's country is attacked, it can feel like a personal attack in a way that a fellow bank customer's account theft does not feel like a personal invasion.

When I play 'Grand Theft Auto,' I'm such a nerdy little law abider because I've always had this active imagination in which I sympathize and empathize with things.

If you play a game like 'Grand Theft Auto' you don't go home afterwards and cry because you ran over a couple characters, because you do not give them personhood.

HIV does not make people dangerous to know, so you can shake their hands and give them a hug: Heaven knows they need it.

I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.