Quotes About Empathy

I think people are interesting enough. People with mental illness, or just real people going through real circumstances in life.

I'm hands-on with everything, always trying to reach the real people.

I try to play real people who inspire me through something in their journey.

Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people.

I always talk about my characters like they're real people.

And they didn't have to get into a lot of legal speak or talk ER terms, they were real people. I think that's why so many actresses were attracted to it. And it was just about problems that you could identify with so much, right off the bat.

Everybody has parts of themselves that they're not 100% happy with - that's what makes you human. And being an actor, your job is to play human beings. Your job is to play real people.

It's sad that you don't see drivers being real people.

My goal would be to make Frank Capra-type films about real people, how they define their reality.

I've played quite a lot of real people, and it carries a special responsibility.

I think it's important to play real people.

Policy is about real people and real stories, and sometimes we forget that.

It's always good to be able to identify with the characters that you're watching and not just easily put them in the bad box or the good box. They're real people that you care about, and you invest in their journey.

I can tell very early on, reading a script, within six or seven pages, whether I'm looking at real people, and whether I can see and hear real people.

What any candidate should do in any race, frankly, is to show up. There's no special, secret sauce there. It's about having real conversations with real people, and when you do that you stay tethered to the things that matter. And that's what people want.

Real people live with, you know, being Christians with cancer, Christians with AIDS, and Christians coming back home with limbs missing from war, and Christians being evicted, and Christians losing their homes. And if you don't paint that picture, too, then I think that you are misrepresenting what the faith really can look like.

Most people never really sat down and got to know a homeless person, but every homeless person is just a real person that was created by God and it is the same kind of different as us; they just have a different story.

If you're a real person, I don't care if you blue - I'm going to be your friend. Everybody's tired of all of the hatred and animosity. I just want to live.

Each movie you do about a real person is like a painting, and you choose certain things in the painting that you want to pull out and you want to show.

While 'Precious' isn't a real person, it's someone's story, and it's too many peoples' story.

Obviously, as an actor, when you re playing a real person, it is an extra challenge.

I do what I do to inspire people. They can't be inspired by an ego, a big-headed person. It doesn't work. It doesn't match. And I really want to be that role model for people, for children. I want to be real. To my fans, I want them to view me as a real person. Don't put me on a pedestal. I'm human. I make mistakes, I cry, I hurt - just like you.

I feel like when you're a celebrity, people dehumanize you and they forget you're a real person.

What was so extraordinary to me about going through this box of my mother's letters and diaries was meeting my mother not as my mother, but as a real person. And what breaks my heart is that I had no idea how self-aware she was and how protective of me she was.