Quotes About Empathy

The thing I adore about acting is that it's not me: you get to experience all these emotions, but essentially it's not you.

'Call Me by Your Name' is essentially the universal nature of love.

It's - you know, acting's all about relatability and finding empathy for a character, which is essentially, kind of, you're finding empathy with a part of yourself, which is a part of a character that was written by someone else, which was essentially kind of a part of them as well because it was a voice in their head they wrote down.

For me, I always have to establish a reality for the character. In very actor-y terms, you just have to understand his reality.

I want to work on projects that I can connect with and those that establish a connectivity with the audience too.

My heart goes out to anyone suffering a loss... be that physical, emotional, or financial, etc.

I don't care what shape, form, ethnicity, nothing. I treat everybody the same.

An Australian actor wouldn't have the experience to feel how it is to be in Australia as a European.

When you're nice to me, I'm nice to you; but when you are not nice, I'm even worse.

Unless I'm on a stage, I don't want to be the event in someone's day.

I listen a lot. I think people have their own answers, and if you just listen to someone and agree with them, eventually they'll work it out for themselves.

I think that every man has a 16-year-old girl inside of him.

We have to create a world where people can show up as whole people every single time.

Artists are like everybody else.

Am I perfect? Not at all. I'm just like everybody else.

I thought everybody else was doing much better than I was.

I'm like everybody else.

I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.

We're like everybody else. We hurt like everybody.

I'm a human being just like everybody else.

I want to try to give everybody else a fair shot and know that you don't know what that person went through before you met them that day. We don't know what people are walking out of or dealing with. The hope is that even when people aren't sure about me, maybe I can try to love them and be sure about them.

The key to solving problems such as violence, discrimination, inequality, human rights violations, and environmental destruction is to be found not in systems or technology but in recovering empathy.

How would I feel if.... and just feel. Feel how other people feel, how the oceans, forests, and animals feel how the Earth feels.

We have the Noble Desire to help others and benefit the world, without expecting any return or recognition