Quotes About Empathy

I don't know if it's because my sensitivity is through the roof, but I can't stand contrived dialogue anymore.

Just because I've played this character doesn't mean I have any understanding of what Diana was like, at all. Although I'd want to say she was incredible, I understand I also have no authority to say that.

Changing diapers is one of the most leveling things that has ever happened to me.

Dickens is a lover of human beings; a relisher of human beings.

In his life, Charles Dickens was like the rest of us, but maybe more so: another poor and wonderful soul attempting to deal with his and the world's pain and confusion in the best way he knew how.

The quality of his being one with the people, of having no artificial or natural barriers between him and them, made it possible for him to be a leader without ever being or thinking of being a dictator.

Growing older has helped me become empathetic to other people and their reasons for making choices. I used to think there was a definitive right and wrong and that only I knew what they were and so I should be dictator of the world.

I know what you go through when you learn someone close to you has died.

Jill Clayburgh's life so closely paralleled mine, I feel as though a part of me lived a little through her and died a little with her.

There is a difference between being self-interested and being selfish. I will never be selfish.

Without aggression, it becomes possible to think well, to be curious about differences, and to enjoy each other's company.

I think music is one of the clearest ways to connect between people of all differences.

It's nice to feel like you have more in common with people rather than more differences.

The more reasons for people to be willing to put their differences aside, the better.

You always have to come from the element of 'What do you have in common?' first. It makes it easier to work through your differences.

There's so much more to people than their differences.

I think you get a lot of life experiences and they all get dumped in a locker room and they say 'Hey, spend 10 months a year with each other.' That's a great example that just because you have different backgrounds and you may be staunchly on the other side on different issues, it doesn't mean that you can't cohabitate.

I want people to understand you just can't wish hard on anybody just because they have different beliefs than you.

I like making films about different cultures. I'm interested in things that I've never encountered before. I try to put myself in the audience's position.

Different kind of cinema is being created, people are coming up with different kind of scripts, they are able to come up with scripts that work with the audiences and also scripts which will have something to say to the audience, which is a heart-warming thing.

That is the fun of being an actor. You play all different kinds of people.

I want to play characters that people relate to, characters that make different kinds of women in society feel represented.

I can respect different opinions, because everybody has a story.

'Blue is the Warmest Colour' - I'm not a lesbian, I'm not French, I'm not a woman, but I saw so much of myself in those women and in those characters. I saw different parts of myself than I ever would've seen if I hadn't seen that film.