Quotes About Empathy

The most important thing is you have to want to do something for somebody other than yourself.

The most important thing you can do as an actor is bring as much of yourself to the character to ground the character in some sort of reality, and then you build around it and on top of it.

Just to get the basic fundamentals and empathy - I think that's the most important thing to bring to it if you've acted in the past and are now a director: the empathy.

I think that the most important thing we have is our ability communicate and love other humans.

When I work with players, whether their level is higher or lower, for me the most important thing is to know the person, what is in their heart.

Winning the Asian Games is about the most important thing I have achieved for my country, and seeing the delight on the faces of the people back home is something that will last with me forever.

One of the most powerful lessons I learned is when you make an argument in a film, you have to make sure both characters are right.

I'm the man I am today because of what my dad's been through, what my mum's been through and I always had love and that's the most powerful thing you can have in life.

The people who are the most powerful and have the most money sometimes don't value other people.

The most powerful lesson I learnt was to have faith in humanity.

I do this acting thing mostly for myself. I like to make a connection and communicate with the audience to make myself feel less lonely. I also do it to develop my own character, so sometimes I do it to just be away in a certain area that I've never been to. But mostly, the story has to do something for me.

Mostly I have to try to censor myself so as not to write things that will hurt other people, or that will go too far.

Being all about me is not a good thing - I don't care what 1978 tried to say - because as long as you mostly think about yourself, you're not going to be a wonderful person. You're just not.

I like the 'Moth' podcast a lot. I listen to that.

My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.

You know, my mother had a rule which was 'people are just people.'

Motherhood is the most beautiful thing that can happen to a woman.

Motherhood was the great equaliser for me; I started to identify with everybody.

There's a feeling sometimes in motherhood that you're alone in what you're going through, and none of us are alone. We're all going through the same thing.

We may not want to say it out loud, but motherhood is hard.

And I think that motherhood has made me a better actress as well.

Before I was a mother, when I played characters that were mothers, I used my imagination, of course.

Sadly, for some mothers, this experience can be made so much harder due to challenges with our very mental health.

Sometimes when I hear people talking about their families, or their relationships with their mothers and fathers, I hear it but it's not something I totally understand.