Quotes About Empathy

Now, I come from a long line of narcissists. And I also have no kids - by choice - but I understand not being a mother and the pain that comes from that.

I really admire people who have long-distance relationships. It's an incredible achievement. I couldn't do it.

I looked at the world with the humaneness, I think, which is one of the hallmarks of being liberal in my mind.

Looking back, I feel for the missus. She used to get the worst of me.

Losers are more like the rest of us. They make mistakes they can't take back.

No matter who it is, I hate to see people losing their jobs. I really do.

Any kind of loss helps when you talk about it.

No one doesn't have loss. No one doesn't have pain.

If I do my very best, then the camera and the audience will follow me, and eventually they will somehow feel like I feel. I don't have to show it to them. I don't have to speak it out loud.

When we laugh out loud and we realize that there are others who think the same as us, then we feel better.

If something makes me cry, I cry out loud. If something makes me laugh, I laugh out loud, because that's what it's made to do.

I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.

I'd like to become a female Louis Theroux.

That, for me, actually is the most important thing about doing a period film is trying to make these people as lovable as they are back then.

Love is everywhere.

I don't need you to love me. I don't want you to hate me, but just don't judge a book by its cover.

I do write to be loved; I speak so that I am loved; I work for love; I live with others so that they may love me, and so that I can love them. For me, this is very important, and many, or all, of my relationships are based on that.

I always wanted everyone to love me, probably because I didn't love myself enough. But now I realize that when you're an artist, you're making the music that's in your head and in your heart, and not for any other reason.

I realize that I'm one of those guys that if I'm not with you, you hate me. But when I'm with you, you understand who I am and what I'm about and love me.

Being able to write about love through a trans lens is something that's not really represented when it comes to love songs.

People just love stories.

It's impossible to get everyone to love you.

There is very little love in this world, and if you give love, you will get it back.

It's easy to love people who love you.