Quotes About Empathy

Being a big kid, I was kind of fat and chubby, and I got picked on quite a bit.

I don't go around saturated in guilt or anything like that. I do worry about things quite a lot, but I don't feel as though I am a bad person.

I used to think about how I was conceived quite a lot when I was about 10 or 11, but I don't think about it at all now that so many other babies have been born in the same way.

I've been using the phrase Black Lives Matter quite a lot. I'm not saying that all lives don't matter, I'm just saying that right now black people need support and they need help because of the racism going on all around the world.

I'm often asked how I portray the roles I play so convincingly and express so much through my eyes. Quite frankly, I don't know how to explain that. I guess it's about who I'm as a person; I radiate it through my eyes.

I've been on my fair share of quiz shows so I'm very empathetic with the contestants and I know exactly how they feel.

I eventually just imagined being a little boy who was quote unquote 'normal': who could learn like all the kids around me that I felt excluded from. And I imagined myself into one of these and into someone who could read.

I read a quote to the effect that we are always writing about ourselves no matter what we're doing. That may be so.

It's embarrassing to quote Gandhi or something, but being the change you want to see in the world is pretty powerful.

In general, between an actor and a character, there needs to be a falling in love, if you will - which I'm saying in quotes.

I've never been good at getting on people's nerves, and from the little quotes I read, it's like, 'You're not doing enough in your life if you're not making someone angry.' And I'm like, 'Man. But my life - I seem to help people get somewhere, so am I not? Should I be more aggressive?' That's the way my inside voice sounds.

We're always on the side of the animal that's being chased. We always seem to be on the side of the rabbit or the fox and not on the side of the hounds.

Why pour shampoo into a rabbit's eyes to see how much shampoo you can put in an adult's eyes before they go blind? I'll put them in my hair, in my eyes before I would give them to anyone else.

Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.

We are all human beings, part of the human race, and we need to be compassionate and giving and kind with one another.

I would never imagine a mate based on a certain sex or race.

Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside.

There's one race on this planet. It's called the human race. We're all the same. To me, there is absolutely nothing that has color to do with it.

No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.

I don't believe in frontiers, and I don't believe in races or nationalities.

If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races.

People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races ask of the poor that they get up and act just like everyone else in the society.

We're not separate races. There's only one human race.

In my experience, I've loved all races. It's not like I can only be with my people.