Quotes About Empathy

I love babies - I love being with them. As for acting with them, it's kind of hard because they don't know how to act.

I do not like babies who cry.

If anybody knows how to be friends, it's black women. We have been enslaved and had to care for each other and each other's babies and pick each other up in so many powerful ways. We know to take care of each other, we know how to be friends.

I probably became more understanding and empathetic about 'The Bachelor,' and why people are on it, than I was the first 10 years of the show when I was married, because I really do understand how hard it is out there, how hard it is to meet somebody that you really have a connection with.

Actors are smart. They have to feel safe enough to fall and to get back up. My job is to make sure they don't get hurt.

I find that, often, when I tell people what pronoun I use, I don't get a lot of backlash. I'm really lucky in that respect.

We've lost our way if we turn our backs on millions of Americans in need.

When I retired from the military, I come home. And the reason why I got into politics is, you know, I spent a lot of time away from my wife and my kids. And I come home, and I found out I have kids in my backyard that have it worse than the children I saw in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Everyone can have a bad day.

If anybody has a bad day, they'll just come to my room because they know I'll bring out the positive in everything, or I'll make them laugh, or I'll be just crazy.

We can all have a bad day. It happens for me as well.

There's nothing wrong or evil about having a bad day. There's everything wrong with making others have to have it... with you.

I don't squabble a lot, but everyone has a bad day.

My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.

We are all human and have our good days, and bad days, so it's important to give one another space when dealing with your own issues.

I have made lots of mistakes. I have had many bad days. I have hurt people and myself.

Let them know that we care, even when they have a bad game and not a good game, let them know that we always care about them. You'll get the most out of every player.

If you're playing the bad guy, you have to find what you like about them.

As the actor, you can't go in saying, 'I'm the bad guy.' You've got to think your reasons for doing what you're doing are good.

It's great to be able to play the 'bad guy' role, because you always get a lot to do, but I'm always looking at the why - how does a person get to that particular point.

I don't know what it is that I do, but when I play a really bad guy, I'm able to bring some level of likability to it.

We have to know that the bad guys are not different from us in the world.

Villas-Boas wasn't a bad man, not at all.

When I look at a character, whether he's good or bad, one scene or 10 scenes, I just have to find my way in.