Quotes About Empathy

I'm a Pisces - I can't rest if you aren't resting well.

My connection was we never want to put ourselves in a position as a nation where we pit group against group.

Napoli fans saw themselves in me. I knew I was not alone when entering the pitch, but I was there with a whole city.

I can have the worst game of my life, come off the pitch, and my mum will tell me I was great! That's what mums do.

Part of this country's problem is that people from New York City - Wall Streeters - don't think about the little guy who can't afford things.

And I always keep cards people send me. I have a whole wall covered with them.

Part of the gestation of 'The Wall' was this business of alienation from the audience, and so the interesting thing was, what 'The Wall' eventually became was something that absolutely engaged the audience.

Sometimes when you do a part, the wall between you and the characters can be very porous. You can sort of move in and out of your character's persona and being. And that just couldn't happen on this one because of working with him.

We have funny ideas about how people in mental institutions act. We think of drooling and people going booga-booga and climbing the wall. These are exceptional cases.

I'd much rather have sat there and just been a fly on the wall, instead of having to smile at people. I'd rather have been a waitress. Just gone round and stared at people.

A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall.

Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.

I'd say that if you had a strained relationship with your mom, for whatever reason, the best thing to do is be open with each other, talk it over, try and work it out somehow as opposed to just putting a wall up and pushing them away.

I will always try to share my faith with any person who is willing to listen. When I feel a wall go up, we can talk about something else... and I will pray for you.

I suppose I'm always trying to break down the wall between my characters and myself. I'm trying to make the film as expressive and personal as I can, even if I can't explain, for example, how important it is for me to be Jewish.

I just don't want to die alone, that's all. That's not too much to ask for, is it It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet.

My father was a guy who, because of the businesses he was in - the hotel business, the hospitality business - he didn't differentiate between the waiter serving you dinner, from the maitre d from the guy who owns a restaurant. Everybody was the same to him. He didn't look at who you were. He didn't look at your wallet.

I felt like I couldn't wallow in self-pity forever. I can't beat myself up forever.

If I'm having a really bad day, I always have a girlfriend - or even a guy friend - who I can call. They'll listen to me wallow for a minute and then be like, 'Okay, let's stop. Everything's great. Let's figure out how to fix whatever's bothering you.'

You don't build walls; you build bridges between people.

I don't have many walls that I put up.

We need to build relationships, not walls.

If slaughterhouses had glass walls the whole world would be vegetarian.

Here in America, we don't give in to our fears. We don't build up walls to keep people out.