Quotes About Empathy

For me, literature is a way of enlarging myself by learning about people who are not like me.

I really look at children as being little people and not necessarily things or people to control.

I always wonder who people are when I meet them; where they live, how they get home from work and little things like that.

I honestly do think that every character - you pick up the things, little things that you like about them in your life. Especially if you play a character for a long time.

For me, I try to live life every day by getting to know people for who they are and learning from them.

Acting is kind of an escape. You get to live life as someone else, and when you're living this life as someone else, you don't really have time to think about your own life.

What I do for a living is listen.

I love people who smile... and always try to smile loads.

I think when you have a group of guys that care about the community, the city, care about each other, it just makes for a unique locker room.

You're only lonely if you're not there for you.

Everyone's been lonely at some point and in need of a friend.

For me, making films is about trying to work something out by myself in quite a lonely way. I find the whole thing very lonely really.

Oh, I do get lonely, yes.

I think everybody gets lonely sometimes. I don't know if people can ever understand how you can be in a room full of people and be lonely sometimes.

I didn't fit in at school, and I didn't fit in at home, and I didn't know why. I was often lonely.

Music is supposed to make you less lonely - that's the whole idea.

There are some people who make you feel less lonely.

Everybody gets lonely.

I think people come to my music just to feel less lonely.

It takes effort to not be lonely.

Many people feel that if they're lonely, that means that they're not likable or that they're broken in some way.

I'm all for any place, any way, any media that can help people connect with somebody and not be lonely.

When you begin a play, you're going to have to spend a lot of time with those characters, so those characters are going to have to be rich enough that you want to take a very long journey with them. That's how I begin thinking about what I want to write about and who I want to write about.

Getting through the day becomes more important than living a long life when you have no one else to live for.