Quotes About Empathy

Being an actor doesn't mean that I can't react to what's happening around me.

I believe in the fact that an audience has one heart. I can just tell you one thing: If I sing the 'Adagio,' and I pull it out with all the honesty I have - whether they're Japanese, Italian, American or Belgian or French - they will react in the same way.

Seeing how people react to a situation, you can tell a lot.

Most actors work on a scene, I try to find out who the character is. So when a scene or a moment comes, I react the way she would react.

I usually don't find myself reacting to my characters. I just create them ... And let the audience decide whether they're empathetic or scared or compelled to cheer me on.

Acting is about communicating, reacting, and sharing - and friendship is about all of those things, too.

When you see bad acting, that's usually what it is - they're not listening to the other characters. It's always hard with first-time actors to get them in that moment where they are really listening to the other characters and reacting to the other characters.

For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared.

When you're always onstage, you really have to focus on listening and reacting.

I'm always an advocate of 'acting is reacting,' which can be difficult.

I learned something through the experiences in my life, and that is that you never judge how someone may be reacting to a situation because you don't know what they may be going through. It's important that you treat people well, and I try to make people feel good about themselves always.

When you know someone for four-five years, you tend to know everything about the person. You tend to know when the other person is reacting to a certain situation, how the other person would react in a situation.

The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.

I do have moments when I feel insecure. I do have moments when I feel jealous, and that's normal. It's a very normal emotion. It's your action and your attitude and your reaction to that that is important.

Have you ever heard someone tell a story but felt they are just mouthing the words without being emotionally connected? When you do this, you often create a more negative reaction than if you hadn't told a story at all. That's because others can see that you're just going through the motions.

As a filmmaker and an actor, my job is to react towards people, but I want a reaction from them.

I have found that I get a better reaction from people once I am less bothered about their reaction.

What matters is that I'm making a connection with people and getting a reaction.

The only honest reaction and true loyalty that we get is from our animals.

You don't know what people are looking for. What you know is what you feel like might be missing. It's up to the people to agree with you or disagree with you, and you'll know in their reaction.

I want to take the time to think through how I feel and why I feel. I don't want to feign expertise on matters I know nothing about for the purpose of offering someone else my immediate reaction for their consumption.

I have bad-mom moments all the time. Sometimes I have the wrong reaction, but I try to remember to pull back and think about it. Even when I make the mistake, I'm able to then go, 'Oh, okay, let's do this again.'

I don't feel that as human beings we have an obligation to dislike someone based on their beliefs, and it's OK to have a human reaction to someone even if you feel what they do is hideous and objectionable. You can still enjoy their company and find them interesting to be around.

When someone mistreats you, the correct reaction is not to go out and do something to destroy somebody else's property.