Quotes About Empathy

Paris has really helped me when I've been down. She's a real helper. She's got a big heart.

None of us want to live in a society where people are forced to sleep in shop doorways, on park benches or in dangerous, run-down buildings.

I am a big fan of 'E.T.,' of course. And I remember watching 'Jurassic Park' - I was so into it. Oh, and 'Schindler's List.' That one was amazing, too.

You know, 'Jurassic Park' is a film I always go back to a lot - it's a fantastical world, but I care about all the characters in that situation, and then I think in caring about them, it can make it relatable and help me kind of see this heightened world through, not always familiar eyes, but at least eyes I can understand.

My legs are heavy. They hurt me. I'm in pain So to all the handicap police out there, just be kind. You don't need to know why someone's parked in handicapped - and yeah, just be kind.

People with Parkinson's are not some weird people on the edge of human experience.

The most important thing is to bring people with Parkinson's into our world and for the public to have a real understanding of it, as they're beginning to have with autism.

I want Alzheimer's. I want Lou Gehrig's disease. I want Parkinson's. I want Huntington's. I want to be the face and voice of all these neurological traumas. I want them all.

I've always liked the downtrodden character on different shows. Before 'Parks,' I loved the Toby character on 'The Office.' I do like playing that type of thing.

Simple people can bring very good knowledge to Parliament because they know the ground.

My favorite body part is my heart. Nothing beats loving and being loved.

Female friendship... I think you have friendships that come and go, and then there are ones that the girl becomes a part of your bones.

I would also would have liked the part of the Bus Driver.

I live in a female-dominated household, so I'm like a partial woman myself.

In drama, I think, the audience is a willing participant. It's suspending a certain kind of disbelief to try to get something out of a story.

I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.

The stories we tell about each other matter very much. The stories we tell ourselves about our own lives matter. And most of all, I think the way that we participate in each other's stories is of deep importance.

You have to know you are in a comedy. You have to know that you are actually allowing the audience to participate on some level. When you go dark and mean it, then you don't let them in.

While taking sign language in high school, one of our assignments was to go out and participate in the deaf community, so I really got to know a lot of the group from that. I felt like they needed a little bit more of a voice because people treat them different just because they're hearing impaired.

Having a multi-cultural background has granted me access into different ideologies, cultures, and ways of living. It has shaped who I am and how I participate in the world.

Participation, I think, or one of the best methods of educating.

For my part, I try to do my bit to make people's lives more bearable, in particular children across the globe who are having problems.

We all like stories that make us cry. It's so nice to feel sad when you've nothing in particular to feel sad about.

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.