Quotes About Empathy

It's when you're true to yourself that resonates with other people.

You just have to tell your authentic stories, and hopefully, it resonates. Whatever your story is, you just have to tell it authentically.

Sometimes you can just step into the character, and you get all your feelings and emotions just from sympathizing with her and being her. But then, other times, you just have to resort back to anything that you've been through in your own life and try to play that.

I like men who respect women.

We have always wanted to make sure that we start the conversation by saying that all people are of value and their lives should be respected and that we should respect them.

Every person has to be respected.

I try to be respectful of how other people think, I try to listen to what they're saying.

You can't hate somebody that is both respectful and grateful to other people.

As an actor, it's exciting to play a role that's so far from what you are and to have people respond to it like a real human being!

I don't know if I have the right answers, but I can tell you that I try to not respond in a moment of being angry.

It's so important to talk to the first responders.

Acting lessons teach you to really listen to what the other person is saying because in acting it's all about responding to the lines.

Words are only as good as the response to those words.

When I'm writing a story, which takes me a year or more, I can feel my character living with me - they're responding to whatever funny, familial, or social situation I'm in, and I think about their responses constantly.

I have no responsibilities but to make people's lives better.

I have a natural affinity with children and adults who can't accept adult responsibility.

You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.

Actors are responsible to the people we play.

I don't want to feel I'm responsible for anorexia across the country.

I'm responsive to my public, but I also follow my heart.

When you start reading a piece together, you get a sense of someone's basic philosophy of music without saying a word. You realize the other person's approach, how they express themselves, the kind of restraint they show, all those things.

My mom just always taught me to let people live, let people be who they are without restrictions, without limitations.

In any walk of life, it's very easy to judge people's actions in retrospect.

Sometimes I think it's the responsibility of the artist to reveal a little more of themselves.