Quotes About Empathy

When you're blessed, you've got to be sensitive to people that don't have and need to depend on somebody else to eat.

Doctors are kind of this shibboleth in our society. We know what they do, and we depend on them, but we don't know a lot about what it feels like from their side.

Nobody likes it when people say bad things about you, because we're all human beings and we have feelings. Ultimately, though, I always try to make sure that my happiness doesn't depend on what people say but on what I feel in my heart.

My mum really depended on me. I'm the eldest of three girls, and she had emotional issues.

Depending on the story that you're telling, you can be relatable to everybody or nobody. I try and tell everybody's story.

Some relationships get easier as you get older, depending on what sort of person you are. I don't think I've got any better at them.

The film depends on the audience's belief in this relationship.

I did not want to depict Al Gashey as evil. I wanted him to come across as someone who did what he did for reasons that were compelling. Whether or not we agree with him is a different matter.

If you live with someone that is depressed, the truth of it - it's not that dramatic, it's just a bit, kind of, 'Here we go, this is what we're doing today. This is sad. But we're gonna get through it.'

What we want to help children with is, just because you feel sad or happy or depressed doesn't mean that is who you are. We want them to know, 'I am really sad right now, but I am not a sad person.'

I know, for me, when I was depressed, I didn't want to talk to my friends at all when I was depressed. If they tried to help me, I would kind of back away from them.

I try not to write for actors because A, they're not the character, and B, it's really depressing when you don't get them.

I always have roles with a depressing childhood for some reason. I have a nice childhood, so I don't know why.

Depression is a surfeit of empathy - a killing empathy - that makes depressives great friends to everyone but themselves. Having a self is a rough business, and depressives can empathize with others who have to deal with it, but not with themselves.

What made me empathic was my depressions.

My depression is not something very special. A lot of people go through depression. My divorce is not something very special; a lot of people go through divorce.

I feel for everybody that goes through it because depression is real, and it doesn't take much to put you in that state of mind to where you think everybody's against you, you're up against the world and that's not true.

The depression happened more so because when I was a little kid, I wanted to be a doctor. My heart was like, I want to save the world, I want to help people... But when I felt like nothing I was doing was right, that's the way I felt.

Sleep deprivation can be a serious problem in romantic relationships.

Even bros have depth, complexity, and emotion.

I am looking for a character that connects to me on some level. It has to be about something, it has to have depth to it and it has to be about something. The story of the character and their relationship with the people and places around them appeal to me and are what I look for.

I do feel more towards certain characters who have depth and intelligence.

I want to play characters that are real, that have depth in them.

I would never do anything that's derogatory to women.