Quotes About Empathy

You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors!

What I love about comedy is breaking down the barrier between the audience and the performer.

I think the actual art of expressing yourself is a very important part of being human. And an important part of being a performer is understanding what it's like to create yourself.

Basically, whenever I watch my mother on screen, I never judge her as a performer; I always see her as my mother and I become emotional.

Truly great performers reveal not only their characters but bring everything they know about the world with them. It's not just what's in the script but the story of everything you've done and of who you are. If you're Chaplin, you're the immigrant. No matter what he's doing, he's always the little guy trying to make his place in the world.

A stage actor has to be 10% aware of the audience as he's performing.

When people think of performing they usually think of show-offs, but I think of it more that you disappear into somebody else.

Comedians sometimes forget that there's an audience. You gotta be conscious that you're performing for other human beings.

Even when I get to the point where I am acting and performing, where I want to be with my career, I'm never going to think of anyone as lower than me. Everyone's the celebrity of their own life, you know?

When I first started performing, the only community that truly got what I was trying to do was the LGBTQ community.

Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference.

Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.

When you are caring about your children perhaps you always have to remember at what point you can become over involved because of something you need rather than something the child needs.

One forgives the critic - perhaps - but never the good-natured friend.

I would never manipulate somebody and put somebody in peril so that I could get rich off of it.

You have so much to share, you have so much to tell, you have so much you want to expose, so much that's inside that you've learned from that life period. There are really very few people I can share that with.

If you've got love for me, then I'm gonna have love for you, period.

I put a lot of time and energy and thought behind what I do and the characters that I create, and I don't want to do anything peripheral that is going to make an audience see me up there on the screen rather than who I'm playing.

She was a patron saint of the peripheral.

My favorite book is 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower' by Stephen Chbosky.

What makes me unusually intense is that I personalize the pain of war, the pain of children being killed, the pain of a 16-year-old who has been permanently cheated by his school and cannot read.

The biggest lesson I've learned throughout the first season of 'Workin' Moms' is that you have to give yourself permission to forgive yourself.

'Me Too' became the way to succinctly and powerfully connect with other people and give people permission to start their journey to heal.

People should never be permitted to feel comfortable while trampling the rights of others.