Quotes About Empathy

I try to get roles that challenge me in what I can do and who I think I can portray. For me, it's about creating characters with really fascinating stories, because that's what I like to watch on TV.

Sometimes I want to convey something complex philosophically, and sometimes I just want to portray myself in a situation that I think other people have been in many times, but it hasn't been written about much.

I always say, as an actress, I get to portray the human condition, but as an activist, I get to change the human condition.

Whether you need to like a character, I don't think that's necessary in order to portray him.

In my movies, I portray this 'Everyman' persona, someone everybody can empathize with. People can identify with a guy like me.

To be able to be a good actress and portray other people's stories, you have to be true to yourself.

Country music listeners really like genuineness, and I hope that's what we portray, and I think that's what we do.

People often portray me as Miss Hard Stuff. It hurts my feelings a lot.

As an actor, I think the experience and the portrayal of the character is exactly the same. It doesn't make any difference what camera is capturing it. You have to do it with the same passion.

The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.

I've given every maid I've portrayed soul and heart.

I don't think I can play a role without falling in love with something about her; even the most despicable people who I have portrayed had some aspect of them which I found beautiful.

The best books I read as a child were set in far-flung places, but also portrayed characters experiencing a life far removed from my own.

I think you have to be very secure as an actor to escape yourself - to revisit someone's past, whether you're portraying another person or creating someone, and then to come back to who you are and not bring those emotions with you.

I'm very interested in portraying homosexual man and woman in my films because I'm interested in their lives and their problems.

Most important, in portraying gay people... it's just like portraying anybody else.

I don't get fazed by things easily. I don't really care about much; I'm just not interested in a lot. I'm just interested in the well being of my close ones, my music, the message I'm portraying, how my efforts are contributing to society.

Portraying as human the people you hear about on the news doing bad things is dangerous. But it's also necessary and important.

I think portraying the Joker's point of view would do a disservice to that character. As soon as you get inside his head he would lose so much power.

For film and games, there is now a fantastic method of actors portraying characters which don't necessarily look like themselves. And yet you've still got the heart and soul of the performance.

Something 'Drag Race' is really good at is portraying us as artists but also human beings. And normal human beings don't know everything. They don't have all the answers.

When you're portraying someone, whether they're real or fictional, you have to find some kind of hook where it feels real to you because if you don't believe it yourself, then no one else is going to believe it.

It definitely does take some time to get accustomed to the character you're portraying and takes an equal amount of time to get out of it.

The challenge is always in portraying characters who've led a very different life from your's as you get to work on the character.