Quotes About Empathy

What I enjoy about my work is that it's all things that I wanted to see as an audience member so there's part of me that understands what an audience wants to see in that respect.

There are certain people that you don't have to even work at extracting their inner life. It is just there and they're happy to share it with you.

Your movie should lull people into a place of openness and vulnerability. If it is just a diatribe, it's never going to work.

As an actor I suppose you're constantly observing. I don't sit in restaurants making notes, I don't live my life in order to then feed it into my work.

You have to put work into relationships to keep them fun.

If we are full of hatred, we can't really do our work. Hatred saps all that strength and energy we need to plan.

it's good to have things done with when they don't work it's also good not to hate or even forget the person you've failed with.

I think substitution is a huge part of acting, but I don't personalise my work that much.

A guy should find out what the woman likes. Every woman is different, so you can't just assume what works on one will work on another.

It takes more than Love and Passion to make a relationship work

People finally have permission to be human in the context of their work. That's the real Internet story.

The more accurately one can illuminate a particular human experience, the better the work of art.

Throughout my work is the idea, over and over, that we must all learn to respect one another.

I think for love to work you have to be with someone who you want to talk to before going to bed at night.

We must work to resolve conflicts in a spirit of reconciliation and always keep in mind the interests of others. We cannot destroy our neighours! We cannot ignore their interests!

If your friend is critical [of your work], you have to have a very thick skin and a thick skin is something that only builds up after it's callused for awhile.

You can't tell people how to feel when they read your work. You can only hope to connect.

It's rare to find women who have that balance between work and life, who are really psyched for another woman's success.

I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman.

Part of my spiritual work is learning to live with the knowledge that we can't protect our loved ones from pain and heartache.

I think I'm very real as a person, and that comes across in my work.

For my father, being kind was natural... I have to really work at it. I love competing and winning, conquest - not words you usually associate with kindness.

The way I personally work is I like to write what I know, what I feel, and also where I am.

I loved Luke Skywalker and I loved Darth Vader and I loved watching them work it out.