Quotes About Empathy

The time for crying with your girlfriends about a broken heart is over chocolate ice cream and chick flicks—not stun guns and bulletproof vests.

If you are going to be with someone all the time, they need to be your best friend.

Every time we allow someone to move us with anger, we teach them to be angry.

If you're sitting in that audience ready to fight me from the very beginning, I'm going to have a hard time getting to you. But if you've got a heart at all, I'm going to get it.

I hate to sound like Julie the cruise director but it's people that I think about all the time.

I spent a lot of time [between takes] apologising to Peter Dinklage [Dance's on-screen son, Tyrion Lannister] because I treat him appallingly.

I didn't know you were having a hard time. I really am unqualified to be a teacher. Hurting you there...I'm really sorry.

Everybody's going through a lot of stress these days, no matter how well off you are and how many advantages you have, it's a stressful time in everybody's lives.

I have that hypocrisy of a parent in that I'm like,'Come on, you've got to toughen up at the same time let me take care of that for you.

It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.

The social brain is in its natural habitat when we're talking with someone face-to-face in real time.

Only a short time ago, I learned that people laughed at me. Now I can see that unknowingly I joined them in laughing at myself. That hurts the most.

If we think of our heart, rather than our purse, as the reservoir of our giving, we shall find it full all the time!

I had some really dear friends who died from AIDS-one in particular. His family wasn't around and he didn't have many friends. I spent a lot of time with him in his later days.

Can one do nothing for the dead? And for a long time the answer had been - Nothing!

Any time I break up with Dawson or question him, viewers turn against me.

When I play live, I feel how the audience is going and follow and lead at the same time.

The whole bullying issue has really struck a nerve with me. It affects so many different types of people at a vital time in their lives.

Bruce Wayne is Batman. He became Batman the instant his parents were murdered. Batman needs Bruce, however hollow that identity feels to him from time to time. Bruce keeps Batman human.

I believe the time we really look big in a child's eyes is when we go to them and apologize for our mistakes and we say, 'I was wrong. Will you forgive me?'

I tried so hard with movies like Vertigo and Middle of the Night and others. I felt those would show me that it's only a matter of time before I'd find the right one to reach out and touch people.

I am too busy with my cause to hate too absorbed in something bigger than myself. I have no time to quarrel, no time for regrets and no man can force me to stoop low enough to hate him.

If you are melancholy for the first time, you will find, upon a little inquiry, that others have been melancholy many times, and yet are cheerful now.

Most of the time I just keep to myself. I think like what it would be like to be... someone else.