Quotes About Empathy

You have to learn to ask questions in a way that will elicit more nuanced answers, rather than the answers you would like to get.

I'm human, just like anybody else.

As I often lecture businesses, it is not the email you send which matters, but how people feel when they read it.

The job of the artist is to go to the places where most other people are embarrassed to go to. And show it.

People like Donald Trump because he embodies the things that they have in themselves that they don't want to say. He's racist.

Fiction allows you to embody certain ideas and give them an emotional reality. The characters allow you to get close viscerally to an idea.

An actor has to embody a role.

If I can help one family embrace their child and not displace them and throw them out, I'm happy about that.

Embrace the humanity of everyone, especially those you don't understand.

You can almost read any emotion through someone's eyes.

It's hard to tell the story if you're not involved yourself, emotionally.

I have feelings. I'm not emotionally stunted.

The fact of the matter is that when you're in pain emotionally about your life, the color of your skin does not matter.

But I applaud my parents for they never really put us in hell. Whatever, emotionally, they were going through... they made sure they never took that out at home.

I think people do things and say things emotionally when they make it personal.

You're supposed to be emotionally connected to the game.

I can access emotions very easily.

An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

I think everybody needs to be more empathetic.

To be empathetic to everyone around you, I think, is such a powerful thing to hold.

I'm the angriest and most empathetic person you'll ever meet.

I love actors. I'm empathetic to them. I understand what they go through. But I didn't want to be an actor.

Own the leadership style that makes you you. If you are an empathetic leader by nature, embrace that.

To go through the agonizing process of learning how to walk again and write again and speak again makes you much more empathetic to people.