Quotes About Empathy

I'm very conscious of the fact that when I'm working, my daughter is not with one of her parents.

A lot of people who have come up to me at restaurants - men - and have said, 'I want to shake your hand, because I have daughters'.

I have a son and two daughters, and I care equally about all three of them, and I want the world to be a better place for all of them.

I am a father to three daughters and I understand what they have to face everyday.

My sister gave birth to her daughter in London; for over a year, her husband didn't even ask about her or support her or even see his daughters.

It's daunting to play a real living person.

When I see David Attenborough talking about how chimps live, big apes, I just remember my dad and the way he'd look at you. He couldn't speak, but everything else about him was, 'This is us, a family.' Relationships are just as intense as they are for people who can speak. Probably more so.

To all the people that he hurt, I'm not - I can't be an apologist for David Koresh, but I feel for people that have had negative experiences at the hands of David. Let me put it that way. I think about those people, whether I agree with them on every point or not. Everyone has a right to their experience.

We all get so caught up in our day-to-day lives and have so many gripes. But when you see the way others live and how they make the best of it, you'll realize how lucky you are.

As a human being, you can't not connect to the chaos that exists around the world on a day-to-day, or things that you've seen on the news just here domestically.

Most people think that it would be hard to be on a set or act for people with autism. But when you think about it, most people with autism use a script in their daily life to communicate in social situations, like at a restaurant, or you know, with a day-to-day conversation.

If we look at the day-to-day suffering of the Venezuelan people, that's not about numbers: it's about human beings.

We have to be even more conscious of the things we do on a day-to-day basis and take into consideration the feelings and sensibilities of others.

We lean on each other when we are going through hard days. We are a family.

Even if we are dead we help each other in some little way.

My life isn't going to stop because my father's dead and my trolls won't stop and people won't stop writing about me.

To really understand a deaf person's experience, you need someone that is deaf to be able to tell you what their experience is.

I always felt that it was my job to try to help other people get it and deal with it.

In doing what I'm doing, you have to be sensitive to the fact that you're not dealing with numbers, you're dealing with people. And I will continue to be sensitive to that.

When it comes to the Internet, people like dealing with people.

When you are playing someone who is dealing with issues on a really personal level, if you don't bring your own issues into the equation, it's not going to feel really personal to the people watching it.

People who are different are constantly dealing with families who don't understand them.

It's easy to point out the evil in other people, but that can be found in all of us. That selfishness, that is something we all have in us. Sometimes you are successful at dealing with it, and sometimes you are not.

There's no way to know exactly what someone's dealing with, no matter how open you are. You're just never going to know everything.