Quotes About Empathy

We love telling stories about characters who you root for, even though they sometimes make it really hard for you to root for them and the choices they make.

Without having an emotional connection or some relatability to the characters, there's really nothing to root for, in some respect.

All my stories are mainly slice-of-life and rooted to real issues and situations that I have experienced myself.

We want to give you the roses when you're dead. That's how human beings think. I try not to think like a human.

Seeing your parents fall apart is really rough. I wouldn't wish it on anybody.

I'm not writing about the 1 percent of people who have this fairy-tale, amazing life. I'm writing about people like me, who maybe had a rough childhood.

Sometimes a person comes into an audience after a rough day, and they want to hear something they know.

I myself had a rough life and it's been a struggle but I believe my gift is the ability to connect with everyone.

It's been a rough 2020 for all us. Everybody in the world. Including myself.

I want the dude in the top row to feel like he's down there on the front row in a club.

Being on death row has taken so much from me as a human being.

To be rude to someone is not my nature.

I believe if you are nice to people, children will follow. Likewise, if you are rude to people, children will follow.

Expectations ruin relationships.

If you lead with the anger, it will turn off the audience. And what I want is the audience to engage with the material and to listen and then to ask questions. I think that 'Ruined' was very successful at doing that.

There isn't a carer in the world who doesn't say, 'I hate it. My life is being ruined. I didn't see my life like this.'

Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.

There's really no rule book for how you end a relationship, so I would often feel really bad afterwards. I never wanted to hurt anyone just because I know exactly what that feels like.

I'm not a Russian sympathizer, but after being in Russia for that long many years... like, look... they way they think isn't wrong, it's just different.

I don't like to see any coach get sacked - not Lopetegui, not the Huesca coach, not the Granada coach, and, of course, not the Barca coach.

I am a coach so I wouldn't call for someone to be sacked.

It's always easier to sacrifice when you're not the one who has to do it.

I want to be that person who could sacrifice everything for others.

When I see people sad, I'm sad.