Quotes About Empathy

I wanted to communicate and connect. I simply didn't seem able to do it.

Power is nothing if you can't connect.

I try to connect with the everyday, every guy.

That's always something that's really important for an actor - to find an opportunity to do a scene where there is a moment like that, where you manage to connect with everyone.

I think I can connect with an audience because I know what it's like to be on the other side of it and I really remember all of that.

The biggest abuses in society happen when people are not able to communicate and not able to connect.

I thought I had to help people get me, but I don't think they need to be spoon-fed. If you connect with me, that is cool. I don't need the whole world to feel like I am a soul angel.

I connect with kids easily. They bring out the maternal side in me.

If you show you're human and have something to say, people will connect with you.

I don't really like simple characters too much; it's too easy. I like a challenge, and I like characters you connect with on screen.

I don't know what life was like 1,000 years ago, but I imagine there was the same struggle: people trying to connect with each other.

I've found I sometimes have the best success working on characters I didn't really connect to right away.

I tell stories about people audiences might think they have nothing in common with, then they emotionally connect with them and find they're not different at all.

All of us aspire to be powerful, and we all want to connect with others.

When you connect to someone on a human level, and you get to know about them, you can begin to love the things that make them different.

You got to have an emotional connect with the audience who watch you.

When you connect to someone on a human level, and you get to know about them, you can begin to love the things that make them different. That's when fear dissipates, and that's when we can live the life that we're all supposed to be living.

Some people can't connect with their own emotions.

If I want people to connect to my words and my stories, I need to tell them where they came from. Because then, when you break into song, they have kind of a blueprint for why I wrote that song, so they can come to it with something they went through that helps them connect to it.

I like to connect with the other actors in a fantasy situation.

I want to connect with my fans the way Mary J. Blige's fans connect with her.

As long as you tell the best story possible, you can trust that people will be able to connect to it.

It's not in every film that you connect to the role.

If you connect with an artist because of what they make as a body of work, you feel like they're your friend. You feel like you're on the journey of connection with them because they see the world the same way you do. That's so powerful, and if you use that, you can genuinely change minds.