Quotes About Empathy

That's why people love Spider-Man: he's the most grounded, relatable of superheroes.

It's not just superheroes that make a story great.

The cool thing about superheroes is that they all have these very human roots, and that brings them all together and makes them all the same, in a way.

I am not superhuman, and we all feel insecure at times.

One of the things about my ministry is that I have never branded myself as being above the people or superior to people.

Understanding the need for religion is a far superior goal to bashing it.

I don't feel inferior in the slightest to anybody - or superior to anybody, let's get that clear. But I do feel different.

Michael Vick may enjoy watching dogs fight. Someone else may find that repulsive but see nothing wrong with eating an animal who has had a life as full of pain and suffering as the lives of the fighting dogs. It's strange that we regard the latter as morally different from, and superior to, the former.

I would just like a woman someday, somewhere, at some point in my life to say to me, 'You're a great listener.' Haven't heard it yet, and that's a superior compliment to get from a woman. But I'm going to work on it.

I think as soon as you start believing you're doing something superior to other people, then you start losing the plot.

Thinking about the sins of others give us a feeling of moral superiority. But thinking about our own sins is a humbling experience, which is generally much less fun.

I'm not a superman with a cape, I'm only a basketball player for the Celtics. But if I can make one child smile, I've done my job.

There's been a long lineage of a stranger in a strange land, whether it's 'E.T.,' 'Starman,' or other movies about trying to connect with humanity; it struck me that's what a Superman story really is.

I think the best thing you can do with a 'Superman' game is to kind of explore the psychology of what it would be like to be a person who slowly begins to realize that he can't save everybody.

I don't think there's a day that goes by where I go to the supermarket that a woman doesn't come up and want to give me a hug. It's a crazy thing when you're in the freezer department and some woman comes up behind you and says, 'Can I just hug you, please?' When it first happened, it really blew my mind.

People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead... these are all people to me.

I think it's important to realize that we're all just human. I mean, nobody is supernatural.

If I could choose to have one superpower, I would want to be able to make everyone love everyone!

It would be an amazing superpower to be able to make every person you meet feel better about the thing that makes them insecure.

If I had to name my superpower, it's probably empathy.

Playing a character who's dealing not only with a superpower but having a normal relationship is easy to associate with, because I feel that everyone has been through it.

That seems to be my superpower - really understanding what motivates people.

If I could have one superpower, I'd be like Mel Gibson in 'What Women Want,' where he reads women's minds.

I would want the going-back-in-time superpower, so I could take back the stuff that I say and gets me in trouble with my wife.