Quotes About Empathy

Somebody said something really smart: It's like you end up being the defense attorney for your role. Your job is to defend their point of view. You're fighting for what they want. You learn that in acting school - it's Acting 1A: 'What do you want? What's in the way?'

I wanted to show life and to see ourselves and our behaviour through an outsider's eye... from the point of view of someone who knows nothing about being a human being... He doesn't have the feelings that the rest of us do.

Sometimes I write from the point of view of characters whom I would dislike as people, not as a perverse exercise, but because this cracks the story open and makes me see it in a way I would not see it naturally.

I am good at persuading people. In convincing the other, I try to start from their point of view so it's easier for me to find a common denominator.

Point of view gets me. If I can feel like a character rather than a reader, I'll read that book.

I like to listen to other songs to get a different point of view and to learn.

Think about it: if the world could see how much adoption means from a cat's point of view, shelters would be empty.

As an actor, you can't play a flashback; you can't play someone's memory. You just have to play each circumstance as if it was real and understand that person's point of view.

I'm too much of a Libra. I too often see the other person's point of view and capitulate, even though I have strong political convictions. It's just my liability. Maybe I'm too empathetic. That's the actor in me.

As a heterosexual designer, it is really, really important to have a woman's point of view.

My job as an actor is to just tell the story as best I can from my character's point of view and let the audience decide.

Perhaps I'm temperamentally driven to see things from the point of view of the attacked rather than the attacker.

Whatever the case, oftentimes, for a story to feel complete to me, I need more than one point of view.

As an actor, you can have your opinions, but our responsibility is telling the point of view of this one character.

I don't want to draw from my own experiences in life. I first like to become the character and then think from her point of view.

I don't write scenes where one person is right and one person is wrong. It's very much by design that everyone has a point of view that you as an audience member can understand.

I think I'm always trying to see the other's point of view, dealing in a very heart-to-heart way.

I like to be close to the players and listen to what they've got to say and feel. Then I make decisions from a coach's point of view, thinking about what's best for the team.

Everyone has their own right to their own point of view and everyone has their own perception of everything and everyone doesn't have to love me, obviously, but I just think that it's too much when people say that they want you to die and it can be so dark and mean.

I think it's important that the lived experiences and the point of view of L.G.B.T. folks be included in conversations that affect all of us.

I'm not afraid to fight for things I believe in, and I'm not afraid to respect people that have another point of view.

Give credence to everyone's point of view.

Citizens and those elected to serve must also understand the point of view, the goals and the fears of those with whom we disagree.

Parents really just need support and not to be blamed and not to have fingers pointed at them.