Quotes About Empathy

If I ask my actors to bare themselves, to reveal themselves as almost naked, I have to bare myself, expose myself as well. That's what creates excitement.

On certain days, it can get difficult, because acting is about being naked emotionally. There are days when you are feeling empty, but the scene demands you to go through a cathartic experience. That's why I like to know what my schedule for a particular film is beforehand.

I miss the sense of belonging on a film as much as I did on 'Call Me By Your Name.'

To live in mankind is far more than to live in a name.

When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.

When kids would say 'Ching Chong Chinaman,' I thought they were talking to someone behind me. I used to think I was a white Jewish girl named Rebecca or Rachel.

Once upon a time, a man named Fred Rogers decided that he wanted to live in heaven.

I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names.

I lose sleep if I end up feeling bad about something I've said. Usually that happens when I send something out without having read it over a few times, or when I call somebody names.

People would beat me up after school; they would throw names at me. Children are brutal... Being different when you're a child is always a challenge.

Learning some of the names and countries of my subscribers and what life is like for them is really cool.

A lot of people out there are bullies, and they pick on people and call people names. You need to grow up from that, and you need to become a better person.

I feel for people with crazy names. It's been a challenge, but if that's my struggle, I can live with it.

While my season of 'The Bachelorette' was airing, people would call me awful, awful names. They'd question my integrity and character.

There are various factors that make a show, so if the shows of other actors did not work, it's not their fault. I don't think it is fair to take names or bring down someone because their show didn't do well.

I try to catch flies in cups and put them outside. After I wrote 'The Underland Chronicles'... well, once you start naming cockroaches, you lose your edge.

You do get fond of your characters. Handing them on is like giving a child to a nanny.

I had a nanny growing up in Morocco, and my parents encouraged me to put myself in her shoes sometimes.

No one has probably helped me more with my narcissism than my dog.

You give up your narcissism, your egotism. That's how you achieve chemistry.

Call it egotistical or narcissist, but I think that's what we all look for in books - the right stories that help us make sense of the world that we, on a very personal level, live in every day.

I love myself. I'm not saying this in a narcissistic way.

Historically speaking, the books I usually connect with the most are written in first-person narrative.

I used my instincts. It's very easy to imagine how you'd feel, actually. I just had to tell the narrative.