Quotes About Empathy

I pride myself on being the nicest person in the room or being the nicest person to people.

I'm one of the nicest, most fair people I know.

My dad was the nicest, most egoless person that you could meet.

School was kind of rough for me. People weren't always the nicest with what I was doing.

We travel all over the world, and it seems like the South is the place where the people are nicest and they think of the fellow man more.

Cancer does give you a new rejuvenation. I know what it's like to be down. I lost a couple of good friends - Larry Hagman and Nick Ashford - who had the same type of cancer that I did, and that makes you think.

I think the characters Nick and Solomon, the characters on Fear Street,' were definitely further from myself. But I think ultimately I do try to look for the gristle in every character.

I'm not going to criticise Nick Boles because he fought off cancer.

I'm getting asked a lot, 'You don't have kids, so how do you know how to act like a mother?' I know nothing could compare, and I haven't had that experience, but when my niece was born, I felt like I would jump in front of a car and die for this little person I didn't even know yet.

I used to work with mentally disabled people when I was 18 or 19, changing diapers and catheters. I was working, like, 16 hour night shifts, having to distribute meds and go capture people who would break out of the house. Sometimes they'd have seizures, and we'd have to rush them to the hospital. That was an interesting time, very humbling.

On any given night, what allows me to get to that higher ground is the audience.

In every school, there's always the kid who gets it the worst, and I was, for sure, that kid. Every time you had to get in a line that was boys and girls, it was like my worst nightmare. A lot of kids I know got made fun of for being gay; that was not my issue: I was just called a girl endlessly.

Because if you get someone who is a bit of a diva or are just not on the same page it can be a nightmare - and I'd rather go out knowing they've had an amazing time and we've got on than win the Glitterball although you've just had a horrible time and the person was horrible.

So many nights I'm up there on stage and I wish everybody out in the audience could see what I see and feel what I feel.

In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.

Here's the thing: I did one episode of Deep Space Nine, and I loved everybody that I worked with. People couldn't have been kinder... But I had a really, really difficult time with the prosthetics.

Anytime I ever have met someone that was very angry or full of negativity, nine times out of ten, if you really take a good look at that person's life, there's probably not a whole lot of love going on there.

I have nine children. Four of my children are adopted. We talk about those who have nothing. My children started with nothing, some of them.

I grew up in a family of nine children, and I know there has to be a back and forth and a listening.

We might take it for granted now, but back in the nineties, who was talking about mental health?

I am a tender-hearted person, and I feel everything to the ninth degree.

Nirvana is my favourite band.

Love has no boundaries.

A gay man has no business leading on a heterosexual woman.