Quotes About Empathy

For most of your career, what you're trying to do is to step into other people's shoes.

The biggest part of why I am where I am today is not only because people can relate to me and my story but because I hit the road and actually saw them face to face and shook their hands.

I don't think anyone is pro-school shooting.

It's hard to shop for a guy who has everything.

I think personally that every actress should do a little film. Even a short film. And all directors should act, to know how difficult it is also the other way around.

Sometimes we can't see our own selves, our own shortcomings, but it's so easy to see somebody else's.

Catherine Keener really gets me. She and I have such a shorthand together.

Sometimes I could do with a shoulder to cry on, someone to come home and talk to.

I was a sensitive kid. I remember being really loving - and putting my head on people's shoulders when I was little until people started telling me I was weird.

Microphones are just like people, if you shout at them, they get scared.

I walk down the street; the garbagemen will shout at me, and we'll talk. That's a pleasure when people feel, 'If he can do it, I can, too.'

Management is not about shouting and bawling, because some guys will not like that. They take it personally.

And sometimes you can make your point better with comedy than you can through shouting about it.

I have to work hard to show people that I'm more than what they see physically; that I'm talented, and that I care and have empathy for people.

We have to show people we are willing to adapt to their world.

I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.

It always feels good when people around shower love on you.

Every role affords me something different in the way of understanding, and that's really why you take these roles, not to show that thing that people talk about of showing what you can do - that has nothing to do with anything.

I've always been a person that's totally comfortable with my sexuality and showing my affections with my guy friends. At the end of the day, your guy friends are very important; they're the guys that are always going to be there. It's just you being a friend to me and I'm being a friend to you.

I'm all about showing up for my friends, especially when they need me the most.

If the British public were shown slavery in their own society seen through the eyes of the enslaved, they would get a much better understanding.

I cannot believe how much love people have shown me.

Books have shown me horror and beauty.

North Carolinians have shown we know how to lift one another up.