Quotes About Empathy

I think when you are trying to be intimate with people that are so incredibly self-obsessed, it's not going to work. It's not going to be romantic, and it's probably going to be one-sided.

There's a oneness to showing yourself to an audience. They feel that. It's healthy. That's what acting is all about.

As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.

Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be.

To become a better actor, one needs to look inwards and understand oneself better. Then, you can create magic on screen.

Gratitude is important. One has to look beyond oneself to see that while there may be people who are far better off, one has been given so much more than so many.

In the ongoing celebration that is literature, we are asked to imagine ourselves as other selves, for better or worse.

For me, I start at the place that my characters are human. I start at the place that they are onions that are layered and meant to be peeled, just as we as human beings are.

I have experienced a lot of online bullying because I am homeschooled.

I don't have a lot of shame. That doesn't mean I can't feel bad about the way someone reacts to me or about something I read about myself online. But I don't have a lot of guilt, no. I've always been this way. I'm missing a chip.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

I'm an only child, and so I over-rely on my friends to lend their support.

Only love can heal hatred.

I think kids don't like me much. Even my nephew used to cry when he was a kid and I used to go close to him. I don't know what they are sensing from me, I have only love to give.

If a relationship is going wrong, if a marriage is going wrong, the answer cannot simply be to say, 'You can't afford to break up because you are going to lose the house.' The answer has to be only one thing, which is 'I love you.'

I think maybe the only time I think of being a woman... is being on the road and making sure my musicians are fed and they sleep. 'Are you OK? Do you need some water? Are you hungry? Can I get you a cookie?' I'm not sure all the men bandleaders do that.

For me, 'Mommy' was about developing very humane characters that would be very credible and endearing and work onscreen.

Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

I like being out onstage in front of everybody, getting that energy and giving that energy. Hopefully I am making them forget about all their problems in the world. For however many hours they are at our show, hopefully they are going to have a great time, and it makes life a little more bearable for everybody involved.

Those moments onstage when you realize what you and your compatriots are doing matters - someone in that room needs to hear that story, someone needs to escape or heal or learn or breathe, and remember, we're all in this together.

Onstage, there's a separation between character and audience; onscreen, you can go to a deeper place.

I'm always making micro-adjustments onstage, listening to the audience, and what a crowd is like can be infectious.

It's important for us to latch onto the people that we love.