Quotes About Empathy

Blessed are they who hold lively conversations with the helplessly mute, for they shall be called dentists.

That's the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

It's funny how you can be mad at someone one moment and want to hug them the next.

If you can find the line between sympathetic and creepy, you have reached a very funny area.

Just because I rock doesn't mean I am made of stone.

It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old paper letter takes on amazing intimacy.

I don't like to do anything that's mean spirited just because I don't find it funny. I'd rather be the jackass than makes fun of somebody else. It just seems too cheap and easy.

I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it's a way of laughing at it and getting a release.

My girlfriend doesn't think I'm funny at all.

Do you know, it's funny, but I never thought of being blind as a disadvantage, and I never thought of being black as a disadvantage.

Once you've been in a mental institution, people are going to look at you funny.

It's great if you're funny or if you can dance, but if you are kind and decent, it comes out your pores.

It was amazing how many friends you could make by being bad at things, provided you were bad enough to be funny.

She tried to smile sympathetically, but with her face it wasn't quite possible.

My wife is so fat that when she lays on the beach the people feel sorry for her and try to roll her back into the water.

You need to be funny in a way that people feel like you're trying to make a deeper connection. So that's what I try to do.

And then all of a sudden, you're doing jumping jacks, you're happy, because Kane can talk. The Big Red Retard can finally speak.

I don't want to get the same looks I give people when they get on a plane holding a baby: "That's a cute baby, just keep walking, keep walking, keep going, keep going.

It's funny, people talk about the characters they play and who do you sort of see yourself as or which ones maybe were closest to you and in some ways.

Somehow I enjoy watching people suffer.

Any misfortune that happens to another person is funny. If it happens to someone else and not me, it's very funny.

It's funny how much you attach yourself to everyone around you when you film.

I just think it should be illegal to call someone fat on TV... Because why is humiliating people funny?