Quotes About Empathy

Mom-shaming drives me crazy.

What drives me is character driven material.

For each character, I try to understand what is driving them.

In a way, I don't create anything; I just open myself to the character, and the character takes over. Of course, I'm aware of it, and I'm driving it, but I don't try to control it. If I try to control it, it goes wrong.

If you are a friend of somebody and that friend is in trouble, you don't just drop them.

If a guy makes a mistake or drops a ball or does whatever, yeah it makes me mad, but I don't get on that person.

I'd sing for any friend's happiness. I don't have to get drunk to do so.

Audiences grew to like this duality of feeling, where you're both championing a character and you're revolted by them.

Usually, I spar with dudes. When I spar with girls, I worry about how they're feeling, what they're thinking. I care.

I can't dumb down for the audience because I believe my audience is at least as smart as I am.

The first time I saw the Dutch character known as Black Pete, or Zwarte Piet, my heart sank, and I felt a little nauseated.

I've been there for a couple of people when they were dying; it didn't look like fun. But if I was gonna do it, I'd want someone like me around. And I will be there!

Being a caretaker for someone who's dying was really, really hard at 25.

There is literally no one on earth who isn't interested in relationship dynamics, or how to meet someone special. Or if they've already met someone special, how to make that relationship as good as it can be. It's a universal subject.

I think it's best if I remain as dysfunctional as I can.

The more we learn about dyslexia, the more able we will be to help those with it.

People want to believe that you're going to wake up each day and fight to make their lives better.

Each generation gets more accepting which is great.

Each individual human being has a lot of stuff that nobody knows about. Nobody knows what anybody else is going through at any point in their lives.

When I work with new girls, I talk their ear off and try to make them as comfortable as possible because I remember what it was like when I first started.

It's very important to listen when someone is speaking up. I always keep my ear to the ground.

We learn the most from listening, and I don't just mean with our ears.

Usually, whenever my mom would come over I would try and put on music that I thought she would like just to make her feel more at ease.

I'm aware that not everybody gets that feeling of ease walking through the world that I have.