Quotes About Empathy

As a film actor, I connected to the people on the good and positive things. But, as a politician I feel the pain and miseries.

I know everything that I do is going to be more powerful and touch more people in a positive way than if I go out there and cause havoc.

That's the whole point is just to bring people together in a really positive way and laugh together and cry together and just be connected through a simple thing of a few chords.

As I get older and mature and see the world, I think it's really rewarding to have people take inspiration - I hate the 'I' word - but I think a lot of disabled people really thank me for putting disability out there in a positive way.

Being a person is really hard, obviously depending on your background for some people it can be much harder, but mental health and how we feel about ourselves is so key to changing the world in a positive way.

I think, to me, power really is being able to have some kind of resonance and to be able to impact other people's lives in a positive way.

And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don't, it's just real hard to get through the day, and I'll get really down, and just want to cry. My whole body language changes. I get more slumped over.

However you can affect somebody positively is what you should aspire to do.

I'm someone very comfortable airing out the stories of my own life. Some people call it narcissism, but for me, the intention is that it will positively affect other people.

One thing you get from me is peace, love, and positivity.

I'm a human sacrifice. I put myself out there for the people, and hopefully they take the good and the positivity from that.

Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.

Nothing we read can import new or foreign feelings that we don't, in one form or another, already possess.

I just love the fact that a man possesses something that a woman can never understand because we don't have the experiences of it and that a woman possesses something that the man doesn't understand because only she possesses it.

You can play anyone if you're open enough. It's a form of possession. Each time you work on something, you allow yourself to be possessed by creating the environment for it. Then you allow the possession to happen - but not at the expense of your sanity or of your identity.

I live in one of Judy Garland's houses. As a fan, I never much liked Judy Garland, but living here, I feel like I have come to know her. People have given me a few of her possessions, and my neighbors have told me things that I wish I didn't know.

I always want to talk about real life, not about material possessions. I've got to tell the story of the people for the people and not for celebrity or fame.

I'm not jealous, and I'm not possessive, and I'm not controlling.

You get very possessive about characters, you feel you can see it in your mind and you want to play it.

My greatest life lesson has been that life can change in a second. This is why it's important to always live your best possible life and to do what you can for others.

What separates humans from other animals is our empathy. With the possible exception of bonobos, we are the most empathetic animal on the planet.

I've come to the conclusion that it's not really possible to help others.

It really is possible to disagree with someone's policies without hating them. Grown-ups can do that.

Rod Carew told me once that for those that know you, no explanation is necessary, and for those that don't know you, none is possible. That's the philosophy I live by.