Quotes About Empathy

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

People aren't inherently sympathetic.

Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to different points of view and situations, the more real the story is.

Baby girls, as young as 12 months old, respond more empathically to the distress of other people, showing greater concern through more sad looks, sympathetic vocalisations and comforting. This echoes what you find in adulthood: more women report frequently sharing the emotional distress of their friends.

I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.

You don't want to make performances; you want to make people. When a project knows, 'Okay, my bad guys need to be a little sympathetic, and my good guys need to have a bit of a mean streak,' you're off to a good start.

I thought that would be kind of cool, to make a bad guy look sympathetic.

It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.

I don't like sympathetic characters.

Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.

I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core.

I'm lucky to be married to someone who entirely gets what I do. She is totally sympathetic to the actor's life. Her own mother was an actress, so she sort of grew up with it.

Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.

There's this thing in Hollywood about the sympathetic character and likability. I've never understood that because the people I love most in my life are not likable all the time. My wife is not always likable. I'm certainly not always likable. My dad is not always likable. We're human beings.

There will be people who are sensitive about seeing the American point of view presented as less than sympathetic.

A lot of the work I've done has involved playing quite sympathetic characters.

My wheelhouse is intense characters who have a certain sympathetic streak and also a sense of humor.

The idea that people feel that they have to be sympathetic to me? It's a funny concept.

Hollywood can't stand heroes who aren't sympathetic.

I think that Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi obviously are incredibly sympathetic to the DACA people. And so am I, of course.

Being a medical practitioner enables me to get in touch with people, understand their problems, feel sympathetic towards them, and the natural thing is to want to help them, and if you become a politician and if you are successful, you can help them even more.

People have very difficult lives. We can judge them for making the wrong decisions, but if you look harder and understand that these lives can be difficult, hopefully you're at least a bit more sympathetic to the decisions these people have to make.

As a firearms owner myself, I'm very sympathetic to the concerns that people like me face every day.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.