Quotes About Empathy

As an FBI agent, you don't want to go in there gangbusters and confrontational. You are going to get a lot more information if you put the subject at ease and allow them to talk.

I know that us girls aren't the easiest to coach.

I'm the easiest person to make fun of.

Having egregious divorces - where you just hate each other - is really the easy way out.

I'd like to act as a fair, easy-going, kind man at some point.

There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

I do take my characters back home. In fact, I am the reel person in real life during the entire shoot. This affects me and my family because I tend to be eccentric or irritable during these times.

People always seem to see echoes of their own lives in my films.

Men like us who live on the edge and had this player life - and for even some that still do - we gotta respect women - we gotta understand that their position here is much bigger than what we might give them.

I apologize that I made an attempt to be funny and edgy... and it didn't work.

I've just always loved books, and I love the idea that we're all just really made of stories. I do also like the idea that anyone can love books. Books don't care how educated you are or what you do for a living.

If you want somebody to tell you a story, one of the most easiest and effective ways is if you're telling them a story.

Gay men must be more effective caregivers to the women in their lives.

Miss Universe is someone who communicates her thoughts effectively and is able to connect to people.

I think often times on Joss Whedon's shows he can make you hate a character for a period and then love the character. He does it effortlessly.

I try to make my wife happy, but I know my efforts aren't enough.

I'm interested in listening to the people who walk in the door. If your ego and your accomplishments stop you from listening, then they've taught you nothing.

'Drag Race' has taught me a lot about how to form community, to take myself less seriously and lose some ego.

There's a level of love that really dissolves a lot of egotism and self-absorption.

I love talking with elderly people.

There is a large element of me in every role I do.

I'm understanding theatre a bit more. I've learned that you go over and over stuff. There's a big element of back-story: where have the characters been before, where have they come from?

I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school.

We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures.