Quotes About Empathy

I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their plights and their issues.

Actors look at life in a different way. When I meet people, I know that one day I may portray that person or someone like them. It may be a cop or a homeless guy. It helps you to pay more attention to people. Everyone I meet, I retain something from them, something from their personality. It helps me to portray realism in my work.

Because of the enormous responsibility, diabetic kids tend to grow up to be the most mature, most realistic people who have a natural desire to reach outside of themselves.

You can have a lot of destruction, but in a realistic female movie, the women are going to be aware of that destruction and apologizing for it.

When your mates break up with their boyfriends, it's hard to see, but not all relationships last forever. Let's be realistic.

The element which is conveniently missing from today's Republican Party is the human one. People's hopes and realities become numbers and words, devoid of personality and easy to erase.

It is not necessary to deny another's reality in order to affirm your own.

I believe there's a place for goodness and love in everything I do.

I go out of my way to help people, but I don't tell people. Goodness is not about beating your own drum.

'Les Miserables', the book, 'Les Miserables', the musical - it's about giving; it's about goodness. It's about compassion and love.

There can be goodness without much intelligence - but it seems to me that perfect intelligence and perfect goodness must go together.

I think you need to think of yourself as a flawed human being with aspirations for goodness and never start to think, 'Oh, I am a good guy. These other people are bad guys. They're dumb, I am smart.'

With 'Durable Goods,' I meant only to write about being an army brat. What emerged was a story about compassion - the need for it, the expression of it.

I just was apologizing for maybe being a little goofy.

I can't, for example, Google myself, because I am very sensitive.

You wish that everyone knew what cisgender meant. Everyone has access to Google. You can find out what's appropriate to ask a trans person.

I definitely believe that tormenting other people because of the Bible and for that to be - for lack of a better word, Gospel... I think that is not very nice.

You've gotta share what's going on in your mind.

You gotta give back - it's only right to give back to the people who need it and are less fortunate.

For actors, you've gotta sometimes fill in your backstory.

When you love somebody, you gotta be honest with them even if it'll hurt them.

There's always someone that's dealing with a bigger challenge than you are. You've gotta have perspective.

I feel like anything can be worked out; you just gotta talk through it as adults.

When you're in a position to have gotten so much, the gift at this point is giving back.