Quotes About Empathy

If you have an embarrassing story, and it's a source of shame, keeping it in just compounds the shame and turns the story into something poisonous. And if someone knows about it, then it can be used against you.

People do not realise that if they say something negative about someone, it turns into positivity for the person they are speaking badly about because they get sympathy.

Without tolerance, our world turns into hell.

If evil is empathy erosion, and empathy erosion is a form of illness, then evil turns out to be nothing more than a particularly awful psychological disorder.

Every actor turns everything round to their character.

We have got to stop being a society that turns our heads and looks the other way.

The idea of some people being less than people is poison to any society and needs to be named as such in order to halt its spread before it turns the soul of a society septic.

America turns its back on the mentally ill. It likes to think it doesn't, but it does.

My goal as an actor was just to be somebody very human. I'm not really interested in playing a character who is particularly cool and everything he does looks great and turns out great.

Unfiltered venting to a friend about difficult situations can be helpful. But it can work against you if your life turns into complaining.

It's OK to do cute little things like kissing a turtle, but you can't kiss another person because he's a different color? Give me a break. And you have to remember, I'm from Dallas, Texas.

I often think if you have time to sit around the house feeling bad for yourself, you have time to tutor a child. I'm guilty of that exact thing. I will spend more time sitting around feeling bad for myself than actually helping somebody.

I want people to laugh and cry, not just sit and stare at the TV.

I always find that really interesting, you know, when I get to see characters that I love in TV and film and theater around their family.

There's nothing that can beat the feeling of doing a movie or a TV show that makes everyone feel good.

I want to create a TV show that people will watch and say, 'Hey, I have a favorite character,' or 'Hey, that person reminds me of myself,' or 'Hey, I've made some of those same mistakes, or those are some of the things I've dealt with.'

I think you have to love the characters that you write. I don't know how you could possibly write a TV show where you didn't love the characters.

Someone who is not a killer is not going to watch a TV show and decide to be a killer.

People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.

I think it's touching that the fans feel so close to the characters that they feel personally hurt. I've felt that way in plenty of TV shows - 'Game of Thrones,' 'Mad Men.' How could they do that to that character? That's drama.

Some people have issues in their past that might make them tweak out at certain moments, but it's possible to snap back and be a real human being.

We reinvent ourselves to solve a client's problem. It's more than just tweaking. It's rethinking what your audience wants and needs. Isn't that what great actors constantly do?

A lot of people tweet me things like, 'My 3-year-old son is trans and you inspire us.'

I give my e-mail out all the time - my team doesn't love that! People e-mail me or tweet at me or LinkedIn me. I've learned that oftentimes people just need five minutes. People just need to touch somebody real and have a connection for a moment.