Quotes About Empathy

Whenever I approach any character, I try to find examples to draw upon.

Love each other, no exceptions.

I'm not an actor because I want my picture taken. I'm an actor because I want to be part of the human exchange.

There is no one I'd like to exclude when I design. It's not like I'm trying to design for everyone. Probably can't do that. Yet I try not to exclude anyone.

Love does not exclude; it embraces. If we don't love someone outside ourselves, then very simply, we do not love ourselves.

I would never ever joke, kid, or use cancer as an excuse.

People are so mean, it's exhausting.

Exile is like death. You cannot understand it until it happens to you.

You read about somebody, and it doesn't really matter whether or not they really exist - the point is that you get into them like real characters.

It's very hard to accept that stoning still exists in the world today.

Travel at least erodes some of the narrowness that exists in each of us.

We don't want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.

We live in such an image-heavy world that not seeing yourself in that landscape can really make it tough to feel human, to feel like you are part of the world.

I like all languages equally.

I think the ability to emphasize is, in large part, what makes me a man and not a boy.

One of my goals in making music is to make the world seem bigger, and life seem larger.

Larry Drake - I love his work... He plays a very disabled character like the role I'm playing.

It is possible to take something beautiful and lasting out of the heart-wrenching experience of seeing the animal you love move inexorably toward death.

Whatever kind of movie it is, you're going to be more into it when you care more about the drama, or you'll have a better laugh if you feel like you know the people better.

Miranda's this girl that everyone's just laughed at online for years. I want people to empathize with her.

The 4-year-old me was getting laughed in school at for being too dark.

You can't kill people if you're eating and laughing with them.

I don't want to alienate anybody. If you're making a joke about men and men are laughing at it, it's a good joke.

I think no matter where you're from, you're going to be laughing about stuff going on around you.