Quotes About Empathy

I'm allergic to attitude.

As attorney general, I've led a victim-centered office.

I think you're always attracted by characters that are a little bit like you, or at least the worst parts of you that you can finally accept and say, 'All right, at least I know that now!'

I think I'm attracted to writers who tell us something about ourselves.

I am always attracted to people who are not myself but are.

I'm just attracted to people for who they are on the inside.

When acting, I can wear another person's clothes and act out the attractiveness of a particular character, which is very interesting for me. Singing is something I love as well.

I'm looking for the truth. The audience doesn't come to see you, they come to see themselves.

I don't want to patronise my audience.

But you can't really know your audiences so well.

Arjun is very close to my heart, and even the audiences associate me with the character.

I'm obsessed with audiences and obsessed with the journey that an audience goes on.

Catherine Keener is everyone's dream sister slash mom slash aunt.

So many times I wanted to go to Auschwitz, but I couldn't take up the courage to go there.

I'm not an austere person.

Every time I create a character, I don't assume they speak like I do, even if they're Australian.

I think as long as you're authentic, people will relate to that.

I personally want to come across as authentic and real. I don't judge anyone.

It's good to be authentic, to help other people, but if it's not helping other people, then don't do it.

I always have to find things that I relate to and understand in the characters that I play; otherwise, it won't feel that authentic.

I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.

When I make a song, I actually literally talk to one person on purpose... I don't focus on, are people in Chicago gonna like this? Are people in Atlanta gonna like this? I think of one person who's a Too Short authority, who thinks I can't do any wrong, because I've customized all these songs for this one person.

My heart goes out to kids with autism.

Autism is part of who I am.