Quotes About Empathy

I wish I could tell my parents, " If you want to help me, help me die.

As actors, we want to go find the humanity and make it more nuanced and fill in the colors, rather than just being suit people who crack cases, 'cause they aren't that.

After all that, you would think daughter would want to spend time with me, but she's busy. I get it.

In my next life I want to be a pessimist. Then other people could spend all their time cheering me up.

If there's a certain song that I want to reach a certain person or certain type of person, that's when I play it for people.

All of us would like for everybody to be the kind of person we want them to be.

I'm a happy person, and I want everybody else to be happy. Nothing wrong with that.

Everybody. No matter how they feel about me, everybody on Oklahoma City, on that team, of course I watch them. I support them. I want them to do well.

You can't expect everyone to love you. I'm not someone who just wants to throw out hate, just because.

I think that's really the allure of acting for me. I really want to connect with people.

I love people and want to be good to people. If I'm in restaurant and somebody doesn't treat a waitress right, I literally will leave. I will unfriend you. You are not my friend anymore.

I try to spend a lot of time thinking of what it is I want to say, and how I want to say it. Mainly because I know what it's like as a fan to hear music that is just exactly what I needed.

I can watch endless humans get killed, but if I see a movie and they kill a dog, I practically want to walk out.

What do men want? They want a lot of pals, and they wish that people wouldn't get so mad at them.

Everybody wants to solve everybody's problems.

Don't educate people; touch them emotionally. Remember that people want to be scared or they want to be made happy or they want to be made sad.

How could you love someone and not want them to be happy?

Sometimes when you love people, you want to believe they're good.

I have had a lot of really close friends and family who have been touched by suicide, and I would never want to make light of it.

I never, ever in my heart want to hurt anyone.

I find myself writing protagonists who do feel pretty cut off from others but who want to make connections and aren't very good at it.

Real people are places to me as much as persons: I want to see them, as I want to see the places I am fond of, in all weathers and at all times of the year.

I'm a songwriter, and people will tell you the greatest stories about their lives, whether you want to hear it or not.

I think, first of all, every time you want to play somebody who is real is always challenging and always scary, because you are given a responsibility of someone's real life.