Quotes About Empathy

I think when you're empathetic, you're putting yourself in somebody else's shoes, right? It's not about you.

Many really good films allow us to empathize with other lives.

When you truly empathize with someone, you have to take into account all the things that make that person who they are.

You've got to empathize with every character you play.

My school of thought with going into a character is that you have to understand where they come from, and you have to empathize with them.

Audiences want to feel represented, want to be able to empathize with the characters and the stories they are seeing on the screen.

If you can't empathize with other people, then you will never really be able to write well about them.

I tend to empathize with people, just in general.

We don't always talk about that as a leadership quality. I think what's really important is having empathy, understanding the experiences of how someone is going to experience what you have to say.

I found being a coach in 'The Ultimate Fighter' series hard because I had to care about others. I don't feel a lot of empathy with others. Having kids is going to be a scary one for me - I guess I'm going to have to learn.

A love of reading shows empathy, the desire to understand how others live or act or might act - and why.

There's a power in empathy.

A judge is supposed to have empathy for no one but simply to follow the law.

For me as an actor, you always sort of want to bring yourself to a character in some way. You want to find a way to approach something in a way that's real and interesting, and also so there's some empathy there.

We all must support the arts, as it is our culture. It makes us better people. It makes us happy; it gives us empathy and shows us how to live. It is so important.

I got a lot of empathy from my mother growing up, and I think it prevented me from ever really just writing people off.

It doesn't hurt to show some empathy.

Acting requires a great amount of empathy for real lived human experiences.

If writing really is empathy, then understanding your place in society might actually help you achieve it.

I think the most important quality for a writer to have is empathy.

The more you learn about someone, how could you not want to protect them and their rights? The more you learn about a culture or a certain identity, it's hard to not feel empathy.

If acting has any meaning, it is so that we can have greater empathy for other people.

Watching the news, there seems to be an empathy failure and miscommunication.

I don't know if cinema can change society, but if it can make us show some empathy, that's a good start.