Quotes About Empathy

Someone had to lend me a hand or two to pull me forward. I feel it's my duty to make sure I do the same.

The stories I work on, especially for any length of time, do tend to become personal to me.

You see things through a different lens when you have a child.

Queerness is the lens that I live my life through.

When people of color and their allies say today that Black Lives Matter, the nation must hear and see it through the lens of all that has come before and understand that they speak truth.

I would like to tell stories through the lens of the gay person, but not just for gay people.

You shouldn't have to accept being seen as lesser or discriminated against because of your skin.

We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together.

The key lesson for me: Don't make this life about you. It's about other people.

The ultimate lesson from my entire experience is you cannot prejudge human beings. You just can't. I don't care who they are, what their behavior, or what you've heard about. You have to be able to meet the person and talk with them, and even then, that's not even enough to prejudge them.

One of the first lessons you learn as an actor is to listen.

I think relationships are really hard. Each one gives you lessons that you need.

When you watch someone on TV go through something that you're going through that's difficult, it lets you know that you're not alone, and there's nothing to be ashamed of.

I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.

If you aren't talking to readers and letting them know you're just like them, they can lose interest.

My music is not always about getting my ideas heard, it's about letting other people feel empowered to have their ideas heard by example.

I am a people-pleaser. I don't like letting people down.

But one of the most enjoyable things for me is that running for office gives you this license to enter the world of somebody else and to hear about the dreams that they have for themselves, for their family, for the country.

Recognising that someone cannot work should not be a license to stop thinking about what support they might need.

No lies, just love.

I've been in some very difficult situations. Life and death situations, taking care of sick children.

I think an actor without life experiences is empty.

It's very difficult to hand someone your whole life story to play, and you've never really met that person.

We're building a lifelong relationship with people, and every great relationship has to be built on trust.