Quotes About Empathy

Of course I'm schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own brain and heart.

As far as my mindset changing, I see myself having more empathy in my older age.

My father wasn't around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, 'Why me? Why don't I have a father? Why isn't he around? Why did he leave my mother?' But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, 'I don't know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?'

When I got older, it got harder because when kids get older, they get meaner, so I went through a lot of bullying and people calling me, like, 'zebra' or 'cow,' so it was really hard growing up.

As you get older, as you become more sensitive, feel more, it becomes harder to make jokes. You censor yourself.

The older you get, the more you are aware that everybody has a certain way of seeing things, which they have to honour.

I think that, as you get older, you become less focused on yourself and more focused on the people in your life.

Even the older generation are able to understand things when they see it on TV and identify with it. A lot of people are able to empathise with the characters. They can also distinguish between good and bad.

As I get older, people do come up to me just to give me a hug.

The cliche of call-centre work is that it's mainly older people who will stay on the line to talk to you. Whether through loneliness or good manners, they tend to allow you to finish your sentences, hear you out.

I made my older sister cry playing Monopoly once.

We forget some of the oldest medicines we have are love and compassion, and they can be deployed by everyone.

Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that's not the only place my friends come from.

The boys want to be near Michael when he's having a rough day. They want to try and make him happy - especially Boomer because he's the oldest.

I don't know how many people really knew who I was before the Olympics and that's the fun thing of the Olympics - you get to know someone who captures your heart, hopefully.

When I was seven, these kids in the alley behind our house in Omaha called me Freckleface Strawberry. I hated my freckles, and I hated that name. I thought it was humiliating in the way that only a seven-year-old could hate it.

You think we got it bad in Omaha, or in any city in the United States, and then you go to a different country and you see how bad they got it. You give those people a balloon and they'll cherish it like you gave them a chunk of gold.

It is so important for young people to see characters with different mental health challenges on-screen.

Once you know the background of an individual, you can connect better with his or her music.

Once a week we go to juvenile hall and talk to boys there. Just go and spend a day in the juvenile courts.

People break down after a couple of hours. All the defenses go down, and there's a kind of communication that if I spent 20 years in a living room with one of these people, I would never, never know as much about them as I do in that one day.

Tell me one friend you haven't looked at with hatred and then hugged the next day.

Justice should be one of the things that's colorblind.

One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.