Quotes About Empathy

How do I act so well? What I do is I pretend to be the person I'm portraying in the film or play.

That's one of the great things about acting - you get to pretend you're somebody else, which is great if you get bored with yourself.

I always like to pretend two things: one, I'm sitting in the seat beside you watching the game together. I'll say, 'Wasn't that a great shot? Boy, it sure was.' The other thing I do is pretend I'm talking to people who are non-sighted. I try to create a word picture. I get more mail from blind people thanking me.

A lot of communities pretend they don't have homeless and just ignore them or try to make them go away.

I don't hate anyone. I just see the evil some pretend doesn't exist.

Every decent person feels the pain of the African-American community, but I also don't want to pretend like I know the exact distinct pain.

You can't look at people being crucified. Even if you know it is just pretend.

It's a horrible thing to have someone pretend like they know what you're about and call you a fraud when they haven't given you a fair shot.

Pretend and real are all real to a psychopath.

For my kids, it's just weird to see your dad pretend to be someone else. It's weird to see your father make out with another woman. It's not cool.

We're so willing to dehumanize entire populations in order for us to conveniently go along with our lives. We know exactly one North Korean, for example. The rest of them, we don't know - but it makes it very easy to bomb North Korea if we pretend they're all one person. Literature makes it harder to dehumanize people in this way.

I, as a man, don't even pretend to know what a woman goes through during pregnancy.

Sometimes it's funny for me to just pretend I'm a movie character, and think what would you do if this was a movie? Or, what would you do if you were one of your icons?

Here's the acid test for appropriateness: Pretend that someone near and dear to you is witnessing what you are writing or sending, or knows what you are thinking about sending. If, say, your partner saw this behavior, how would he or she feel? That you are asking yourself this question could mean that you shouldn't be doing it!

There's stuff in this world, everybody pretends they understand. But we don't understand. It's important to listen.

That's what acting is. You're pretending to be someone else.

I was bullied; I was kind of a girl in the corner. So acting was a great outlet for me by pretending to be someone else.

When I do an impression of someone or when I am pretending to be someone else, something freaky happens: I feel the person I am mimicking behind my eyeballs. Their head is sitting perfectly inside mine, helping me project a false self out on to the world. And it's not always a choice.

Fans can be a little crazy. Sometimes they go too far by pretending that they're you.

People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.

People are pretty because they're nice, and they care about other people, and they have a good heart. That's what makes you pretty, and I didn't know that at one point in my life.

We had a severely autistic kid in my class, and I was always picked last in gym class, even after him. Naturally, that made me feel pretty bad as an eight-year-old.

I think I am a pretty good at understanding each character of each person I meet.

I'm usually pretty good about meeting people. I try to remember they are human, too!