Quotes About Empathy

Being an actor, imitating to the point of inhabiting the lives of others, may simply be a way of continuing to do what I learned to do as a boy - to travel, mentally and physically.

You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.

I felt like if I wasn't sharing myself physically, I would actually get a chance to see the downfalls of my partner. I would be able to minimize my intake of being disappointed.

I had always felt deep down that I owned the characters. Much as I adored and cherished the work of my actors, I felt that they were cast to do and be what I could not physically do or be.

I grew up in a very 'Friday Night Lights,' sports-focused town. I did not play the sports. I was never bullied physically, but I was called names. I was also an overweight kid. I knew what it's like to feel like the other, to feel written off for things that were not in my control - my appearance, my interests.

I still have a lot of judgmentalism in me, where I'd see somebody, and I just would, you know, I disagree with this person, and you kind of automatically cast them away. And even though you don't do anything physically, you don't say anything, but people get a real sense of your heart.

I was never physically abused, but when I came out to my parents late in life, when I was 27, they definitely had an intervention.

As a woman, I have access to hit women in a way that men might not be able to hit them with jokes. I don't mean physically hit. But you know, because I'm a woman, I can say things about women because I know what it's like to be a woman, if that makes any sense.

You can never just write off a person as crazy. I think that is the most inhumane thing you can do to someone without physically abusing them.

I come from a background where, if someone is rough and tough, you handle things physically. People betrayed me, and you just want to choke them. But you choose forgiveness.

I am always physically and emotionally invested in the characters I play.

The glimpses of human strength and frailty that a physician sees are with me still.

A lot of times you'll go into a doctor's office and want a kind, non-clinical approach from the physician. Doesn't usually happen.

I want to act in a film like 'The Pianist.'

Then I was playing the piano at eight, and that helps you learn about women because most of the people I was playing for were women.

Each time that you're playing a character, it's hard to pick a favorite.

We approach people the same way we approach our cars. We take the poor kid to a doctor and ask, What's wrong with him, how much will it cost, and when can I pick him up?

I knew Scotty was going to win. At the beginning of the episode, I was like, 'Scotty, are you ready to win?'. I knew he was going to in my heart. I accepted it. I couldn't pick a more perfect person to get second place to. He's my best friend.

If I have a problem with someone I talk about them. I don't pick on their kids.

I pick up on other people's discomfort.

There's nothing greater than just having people that pick you up when you get knocked down.

At one point, I didn't get out of bed for, I think, three months, and I went down to the bottom of the hill one day and I had to call somebody to get me to come back up - come pick me up because I couldn't physically walk up the hill.

When we're on the street and someone drops something, I pick it up.

I tend to pick on the people I'm closest with because I know they know it's not personal.