Quotes About Empathy

We can't pretend that a Facebook friend is the same as a real friend you've shared times with together, both good times and difficult times.

I'm always depressed when a book ends, because those are my friends for however long the book takes to write. Since I spend so many hours with these fictional people, I sometimes see them more than my real friends. And then they're gone, and we'll never be together like that again.

People always say, and my family has said it to me, that you know who your real friends are when you're at your lowest point and you don't have a job or whatever.

Finding real friends - that's something that was an obstacle for me. And learning how to deal with my problems and talking about them.

With real friends I trust, I speak my mind right at the moment, feelings are exchanged and we move on.

I was brought up not to be selfish or self-centered. So if you play somebody who isn't so lovable, you can play that person and no one will turn on you. I don't want to play that person in real life. Because then people won't like me so much.

Even in real life, sometimes you find that person you click with that you get irritated by every other person in the world but you can be around this person every day and you'd be fine with it.

The value of a story like 'Deadline' is kids get to look at death at the perfect distance. They can put the book down. They can experience the story, rub up against it, but it's not real life.

People always ask me, 'I don't know how you could watch that, how that affects you,' and I just tell them, 'I went through it in real life, so it's like pilots watching a 'Top Gun' movie or cyclists watching a bicycle movie,' something like that.

Through film, I realized that was a safe place for me to play. It was a safe place for me to express myself and explore these things that I was afraid to explore in my real life.

I connect with very few close friends in real life.

Basically, any time you have a real life experience, that can be a song. Because no matter how crazy or weird you are, somebody's had an experience just like you, somewhere.

Writing songs helped me figure out how to communicate with other people. I finally figured out that if I could express something in a song, I could probably express it in my real life, too.

I'm drawn to people who find themselves on the outside of things. I'm moved by that in real life.

I take stuff from real life and try to make a character out of it. And I try to live the world of the characters a little bit.

I'm so different to the roles I play, and perhaps that's why they are appealing to me as an actor. But I would never want to inhabit my characters' shoes in real life.

I think, in real life, when we're facing death - that is, when we come out on the other side of it, whether it's death of a friend or a family member - you come out on the other side of the mourning cherishing your life that much more.

What you bring to the stage is what you are in real life... people sense that.

You can't help it as a human being when you're put under so much scrutiny by multiple people, not even just one person in real life, telling you something. It harms you.

In real life, I know to filter all my jerk opinions and my jerk thoughts and my jerk desires.

Real love is figuring out how someone wants to be loved and loving them in that way.

Real love and intimacy can be much more possible when you're older.

I've always had an amazing connection with women - a real love of them.

I've played real people before, but I never knew them.