Quotes About Empathy

I make fun of my dad all the time for crying, and I'm worse than he is.

I don't want anything from Cuba. I want them to be free and enjoy the things I enjoy.

I'm so proud to be an American, but you see what they are going through Cuba, you see what they have been through, and it's pretty sad.

I'm just trying to do my best in the circumstances and am very happy for everyone else to do the same so I don't cultivate enemies.

The more you can be self-aware and honest about yourself, the more you can cultivate that in other people.

Cruelty might be very human, and it might be cultural, but it's not acceptable.

Just because I'm a black woman doesn't mean I've got an automatic sensitivity chip for cultures outside of my own.

You have to see other cultures to understand the world.

I got kids now... It gives you an empathetic feeling into other cultures and stuff.

I don't think that people understand enough about each other's cultures any more.

What we tend to do in our shows, especially with 'Love Is_,' is to show the humanity of characters so that people can see themselves, one, and so that other cultures can see that we have more in common than we have not in common.

When people do get to see each other and know each other more - you'll see it in New York, all these cultures are together - other cultures become far less scary and less foreign to you.

I like embracing other cultures.

To me, I think love is the cure all.

As a child, I was consumed with a near-obsessive curiosity about what the world felt like for other creatures.

I have an inate curiosity about people.

I have a natural curiosity for people.

I think I'm very curious about other people. I like to sit and eavesdrop, you know.

I'm curious about people. That's what I've always done since I've been a small boy. I'm curious about others.

I am curious about people. I want to know their secrets... because I am the last person to whom I would tell a secret; people tell me their secrets.

I am always curious to sit down with the actor who's playing the part after the casting process and get to know them, get to understand their life a little bit more.

No matter what you go through, if it's the truth, 9 times out of 10, somebody else has been through the same thing or is currently going through the same thing.

I don't wish to curse anyone. I just feel bad when women, especially, try to sabotage the image of another woman.

You create this human being, and then you are that human being for the next six months. It's amazing. I think that's the blessing and the curse of being an actor. You get to be pretty much anything you want to be.