Quotes About Empathy

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor he is not alone in the way he feels about himself.

The real actor - like any real artistj- has a direct line to the collective heart.

If you give audiences a chance they'll do half your acting for you.

The success of your presentation will be judged not by the knowledge you send but by what the listener receives.

Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.

It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that makes them little sisters to all the world.

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

America is a willingness of the heart.

Animals are such agreeable friends; they ask no questions, pass no criticisms.

If't were not for my cat and dog, I think I could not live.

O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us!

The artist has a special task and duty; the task of reminding men of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.

Art is a human activity, consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of external signs, hands on to others feelings he has worked through, and other people are infected by these feelings and also experience them.

We learn from experience. A man never wakes up his second baby just to see it smile.

Combine common sense and the Golden Rule, and you will have very little bad luck.

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.

Camerado, this is no book. Who touches this, touches a man.

The one sure means of dealing with boredom is to care for someone else, to do something kind and good.

We often forgive those who bore us, but can't forgive those whom we bore.

Canada is not a country for the cold of heart or the cold of feet.

One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them.