Quotes About Empathy

I still get weepy when I see a father being nice to his child. It so affects me.

No person in the world ever lost anything by being nice to me.

What's the point of being the best in the world if you scratch and claw your way to the top, and you push everybody down instead of lifting everybody else up with you?

It's very hard to balance being there for somebody else and taking care of yourself.

We can't assign beliefs to people who don't have a voice to express them. And we can't assume what someone thinks.

The perspective of people who truly believe that abortion is wrong. I understand that, I'm empathetic to that, I get it. But the place where I think we need to come to some kind of an understanding is that... you have your ability to have your own beliefs but the government doesn't play a role in that.

It's really wrong to judge someone because of their beliefs.

Some people have their beliefs and what they think is right and wrong in a relationship.

Make your characters believable, and your reader will believe what they believe.

Sitting in America, we never get to know the other side in any kind of believable way. We have so many movies about Iraq, Afghanistan, and this and that, but there is never a character from that side.

You have to create characters - certainly in series TV - who people engage with. They don't have to be nice; you don't have to agree with them. But they do have to be compulsively watchable and believable and human, and you want to know what happens to them.

As an actor, you have to be able to put yourself into the character since your job is literally making the character and the situation he is in believable.

Comedy makes things believable. Because if there's anything we all know, it's how to make fun of ourselves, and to make fun of situations to make them a bit easier.

Where I once believed people were there to be used, I started thinking of other people first.

I've been star-struck once. I'm a strong believer that everyone's just a person. Whether you've seen someone on screen do something amazing or they're super famous or whatever, everyone's just a person, and they do exactly what all people do.

I'm someone who believes in 'live and let live,' and that applies to everything.

If the actor believes in the moment, the audience believes in it, too.

That's probably the biggest secret of acting: If the actor believes it themselves, they can make you believe it.

I'm not a guy who believes in revenge.

When I take up a role, I start believing that I'm that person only.

I try, when I go into places, not to belittle what's gone before, because I know how difficult it is to manage, and everybody does it differently.

I see myself as a mascot for the kids who get beat down and don't feel like they belong.

We all want to belong to something, and we all want to feel as though we have a legacy, and when you see two characters that have had that taken away from them, I think that just feels very real and very human.

If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.