Quotes About Empathy

There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families.

'Yeh Hai Aashiqui - Siyappa Ishq Ka' has become a part of who I am. I will be narrating the stories, and as a narrator, I get to experience each story up close and personal and go through the same range of emotions as the characters.

I used to work for the World Health Organisation in poor countries all over the world - Bangladesh, Korea, the Philippines and India. You learn a whole range of things about how other people are living and try to connect with them to gain an understanding of where they're coming from.

You want, whenever you're telling a story, to have a certain amount of range, and you want to be able to take the audience on that ride with you.

You have to develop a broad range of projects. One thing we've seen with 'This Is Us' is that people want to escape a little bit into the lives of others with beautiful emotional storylines where a country that needs a good cry can have one without seeming crazy. So I would say my real takeaway is that we should all be pushing for extreme emotion.

You know, directors are funny people. They live with these movies for a year or more. And when you go in to score the picture, you're fooling with their child. They want to know everything that happens to the score - and why.

The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all.

Chemistry's a funny thing. It can be instantaneous, but it helps when you know someone.

Abuse yourself all you want - just leave animals out of it. Don't wear fur.

Without accepting the other person's thinking, you cannot further your own interest. You need the other's help to get results.

I'm a creative person who had a lot of dark time in my life. I can still get to it: I can still go to a relationship or a time when things weren't great. But it's getting further and further from me.

The more I can be the character, the further I can get away from myself, the better.

I always think that trying to push yourself as an actor in a direction that you've never been before, developing characters which are more difficult to get into the head of, or are more interesting and further away from yourself, is always a challenge.

Gaga came to me, and I just could not find a soul. I come from church; maybe that has something to do with it. I like to get to the soul of a person. I just didn't feel a soul.

There are certain people you feel like you've known for a long time from the moment you meet them, and that's exactly how it was with Gaga.

One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people.

For me, that's always been one of the great charms of the first person: we gain access to a very personal, private kind of music.

If I gain support, the support doesn't seem to mean anything. It's not like anyone really cares about me.

We try to keep a good line of communication open with our children. It's not always about trying to just teach them every moment, but it's about listening to them and trying to understand them and gain that sense of communication so when they need to talk to someone, they know that we're there.

Anyone who has been through failed relationships - even people in successful relationships - understand that you gain perspective about what is important to you.

When Truman Capote wrote from the perspective of condemned murderers from a lower economic class than his own, he had some gall. But writing fiction takes gall.

You have to take each player as a separate case and understand how to deal with them, which is not easy when you start in the job and are confronted with a player telling you he has a gambling or a drink problem.

I've read all the 'Game of Thrones' books many times over, so I sometimes find it easier being on set, because it can be hard to get out of character.

I always feel for the younger cast members in 'Game of Thrones.' They're really clever and smart.