Quotes About Empathy

If I'm doing something its coming from a kind heart.

What I've always said about comedy is if you do it in the right way, you can say anything to anybody because they know where you're coming from. They know it's not malicious.

If coming out to someone makes them love you less, just know that I love you.

I feel 'The Street' is a really accurate comment on the relationships between people.

I think I'm working on being a lot more positive in my everyday life because I realize comments and things can hurt.

I always used to want everyone to like me, because it used to hurt so much when people made snidey comments or gave me bad reviews, but I've learnt to deal with it.

I've tried to stop reading comments online because if you believe everything, it makes you feel like rubbish.

I've seen some of those comments and they hurt me a little bit, saying 'This guy's a cheater.' And I feel like if you know me, you know my character, and just my person, you know that's not what I would do, not what I would ever do.

That's my achievement actually - when a mother says that she didn't marry off her 14-year-old daughter because of me, or when a woman tells me that she continued to study after watching my dramas - those comments mean a lot.

When you play a character, you commit yourself to their beliefs.

I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people.

When I became aware of how inhumane it is to test on animals, I made a commitment not to buy anything that was.

All of us have to be committed to a life beyond our own aspirations.

I never looked at people or singing as commodities.

You're always trying to find common ground with whatever you do, but you want to not be thinking about yourself when you're performing a play. The job is getting yourself out of the way and letting the character go about the scenes.

I've always found that if you listen to people you can find common ground.

Everybody's got a story on their beards. I guess it's just a way of finding common ground with people you otherwise might not know.

Obama was the first president whose biography makes sense to me. He can walk into a room anywhere and find common ground with any person.

I have tried to treat people on the other side civilly and look for common ground.

I have my mother. I love her very much, but on many issues, we will never find a common language, because she simply doesn't understand many things.

I always want to represent the common man.

It's very important that we learn how to communicate... and learn to respect each other.

Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate.

In a reading, I communicate what I see, what I hear and what I feel. It's as simple as that.