Quotes About Empathy

A lot of guys are very intimidated by an attractive woman, and they dehumanise her because our culture perceives beautiful women as commodities. But I think if you're able walk up to a person and get to know them, and you see their flaws and their impurities, and realise that they're like you, then you can humanise them again.

When you get to see the world, it changes you. You realise that there are all kinds of people out there.

The closer you are to people, the more you realise what has happened to them.

You never realise that you have an impact on people's lives. There are so many girls that go through so many problems and who come to me. I really try and take time to speak to as many people as possible.

The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up.

I do think that when you get older, you kind of learn not to judge because you realise that no one's perfect, and we're all fighting our own private demons.

When you see how people in the developing world react and how they use a camera, you realise how narcissistic we are and how the filming of ourselves and thinking that we're interesting enough to care about is odd.

People think we're machines; they don't realise that behind a bad run, there's almost always a personal problem, some family issue. You have feelings; you make mistakes. You're a person.

You meet every different kind of possible person from different ethnic and cultural background, and after you while, you realise it's all just people, isn't it?

Something they taught us at drama school, and it's taken me a long time to realise it's true through practice, is that you can't put judgments on a character you're playing, especially while you're doing it.

Many parents know that hugging your children - telling them how amazing they are - is so important. Some parents, through no fault of their own, don't realise this. My mum was one of those who didn't realise, and I almost was too.

Meeting people from different countries makes you realise that everyone around the world has the same needs and aspirations.

After many years of self-flagellation, I've realised that beating myself up doesn't get me anywhere.

I felt an intense loneliness after my sister died. I was seven at the time, she was eight, and I realised after her death that she accepted me for who I was.

I have played a mentally challenged person, a quadriplegic - but blind, I realised, is the most difficult because eyes are the most involuntary muscles in our body. Like, our pupils and their dilations are involuntary.

I realised that being sensitive means you can connect to all kinds of people. I think I've learned that it is a gift as well.

I realised that we're all equal - it's all about helping each other.

Growing up on our estate, we were all different colours, but we were all really poor. I never really realised that black was a problem for some people.

My dream was, start young, take hormones, live as a woman, try and become as passable as possible, bury your past, change your friends. Now I've realised that I don't have to be ashamed of my past.

I have realised that it's important to be a sport, be nice, and know what to speak and when.

If I like a person, I don't have any mask/filter. I will open up a lot. I had hurt myself in the past because a couple of persons took advantage of me. I realised that they are not genuine people. Since then, I take time to open myself up for new people.

I realised no one else was going to care about me so I started to be nice to myself.

I have realised that when you start thinking like the person you are playing, it gets easy to emote.

I spent my entire childhood going 'look at me, look at me, look at me,' before realising I needed someone to look at me for more than just what I was showing off for.