Quotes About Empathy

When I was younger, I used to think it was kind of cool to abuse actors mentally, but I really disagree with that now.

Well, I think it's important to stand as an advocate for the mentally ill.

A coach should be a person who is able to help a player mentally.

The difficult thing with mental illness is that there's no one to blame. You can't blame a person who's mentally ill, because they didn't ask for it! There's no choice to it.

Sometimes in a huddle I don't say anything, the guys will run the huddle. But I try to be an encourager in huddles, especially when I see a guy down or the team is not at the level where they should be mentally.

There is nothing compassionate about abandoning the mentally ill to the streets and making the rest of us live in their bedlam.

When I lost my hearing, my mom got a deaf mentor to come into the home.

Mentors don't just have to be people who are older or more experienced than you are. Mentors are people who really care about you, know you, and want to offer feedback and advice to help you grow.

Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and sheltering our brothers, we must indoctrinate.

The essence of justice is mercy.

A woman is very sensitive and knows exactly when she is loved or not. Mere words don't work.

I saw David Lynch's 'The Elephant Man' when I was 15. I was completely bowled over. I found it so beautiful, strange and mesmerizing that I went back to the cinema every night for a week to see it.

Growing up, I felt like it was very dangerous to mess up in any way, both in front of men and in front of other girls. It was like you couldn't make mistakes. So having a female friend who's like, 'Get over yourself. You're driving me crazy!' - that's been one of my most important parts of becoming an adult.

Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.

We make a mess of things sometimes but that doesn't make you bad - it makes you human.

I love seeing people in their mess. I find that heartwarming. Charm just doesn't interest me. If I want to see charming people, I can watch TV.

The fact is, there's good people everywhere. That's what I try and show in my stand-up: good people everywhere. All it takes is one person to mess it up.

People mess up. They say things when their guard is down.

I just think that we're all humans; we all mess up. It's okay: we should give people room to learn from their mistakes. That's how evolution happens.

I feel like any way you can get the message to resonate, I'm all for it.

I think my books talk about kids learning to like and respect themselves and each other. You can't write a message book; you just tell the best story you know how to tell.

No matter what as an artist that's always what you want to do, you want to connect to the audience, you want to be able to send whatever message it is that you're singing about, you want to be able to convey that - and not make them feel - you want them to feel it, you want them to feel what you feel.

You never want to make a 'message movie', but you always want to be talking about something that you care about.

In film, the camera can get an array of shots so the audience can see the emotion the character is giving off. Using close-ups on the character's face really helps get the message across. On stage, you can't do that. But the stage has that live feeling that you can't get anywhere else because the audience is right there.