Top 199 Empathize Quotes & Sayings

I'm very protective of all the vulnerable young kids that go on shoots. I can empathize. I've been there.

My school of thought with going into a character is that you have to understand where they come from, and you have to empathize with them.

With any character, you want the audience to at least empathize.

The best way to bring people in and have them empathize with others is through storytelling.

To empathize means to share, to experience the feelings of another person.

We can empathize as deeply as we can empathize.

Many really good films allow us to empathize with other lives.

It's interesting sometimes when an audience can empathize with a villain.

As a Donald Trump supporter, the battle to elevate the will of the people above that of the establishment is one with which I empathize.

Miranda's this girl that everyone's just laughed at online for years. I want people to empathize with her.

For me the prophetic has to do with mustering the courage to love, to empathize, to exercise compassion, and to be committed to justice.

You've got to empathize with every character you play.

Empathy is an antidote to righteousness, although it's very difficult to empathize across a moral divide

If you can't empathize with other people, then you will never really be able to write well about them.

We rushed to Haiti. We Adopt in Asia. We empathize with Africa. But struggle to humanize our struggles here in the states.

The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.

As human beings, what makes us able to empathize with people is a connection that is not necessarily understood mentally.

To be able to hear our own feelings and needs and to empathize with them can free us from depression.

I can empathize with President [George Bush]. I know what it feels like having a young guy waiting around for you to keel over.

It may be most difficult to empathize with those we are closest to.

If there was one senator who could truly empathize with being tortured in prison, it was John McCain.

My dad is an economist who does global development research. What he practices is a kind of quantifiable empathy: trying to empathize with systems rather than people.

I tend to empathize with people, just in general.

It's hard to get people to empathize with the poor. You can get some people to sympathize with the poor, but to empathize is actually very hard, because most people are not poor. I realized that scarcity gives you a thread.

I'm not a member of a minority but I can empathize with what's going on.

If you have a character that seems to be all perfect, it's hard to relate to him because when you read a story you really want to empathize with the character that you are reading about. And it's hard to empathize with someone who is flawless and who has no problems.

It's harder to empathize with those who appear to possess more power, status, or resources.

Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot.

Grab onto things that resonate with you, that you relate to, or that you empathize with.

It's tough. It's very tricky to throw a morally flexible character onto the screen and have an audience empathize. It's always an exercise in restraint.

Perfect heroes are cool, but no one can really empathize or identify with them.

Empathize, rather than put your "but" in the face of an angry person.

Even when I have a vintage play, I draw in elements from current scenarios, so that modern audiences can empathize with the characters.

If you empathize with your fellow humans on stage, you can't help but do so offstage as well.

In order for me to parent well I have to empathize and stay open with my son.

I feel like you can't really be truthful as an artist and empathize with the human experience unless you know your truth, and you're not living a lie.

I could definitely empathize with the character, with the feelings of helplessness - if only the desperation and the feeling of isolation.

I think the ability to empathize with another person's experience and go into the trajectory of their journey is challenging.

To me, 'design thinking' is another way of saying empathize with the customer. It's consideration for the person you're designing for.

A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with.

In my movies, I portray this 'Everyman' persona, someone everybody can empathize with. People can identify with a guy like me.

The purpose of civilization and growth is to be able to reach out and empathize with other people... For me, the movies are like a machine that generates empathy.

It's very tricky to throw a morally flexible character onto the screen and have an audience empathize. It's always an exercise in restraint.

I can empathize with women who feel that [sexism]. I personally haven't experienced it, and I'm grateful for that. I feel very appreciated on the show I'm on, but I do empathize. My concern is less the entertainment industry specifically, and more the general problem that women don't get paid as much as men in any industry.

And it took to "The Devil Wears Prada" to play someone tough, who had to make hard decisions, who was running an organization, and sometimes that takes making tough decisions for a certain kind of man to empathize. That's the word - empathize. Feel the story through her. And that's the first time anybody has ever said that they felt that way.

To do this, you can bring in nothing from the past. So the more psychology you've studied, the harder it will be to empathize. The more you know the person, the harder it will be to empathize. Diagnoses and past experiences can instantly knock you off the board. This doesn't mean denying the past. Past experiences can stimulate what's alive in this moment. But are you present to what was alive then or what the person is feeling and needing in this moment?

Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.

My interest is always to get as deeply as I can into the minds and spirits of the characters and let the readers empathize or judge as they will.

Since we are part of nature...we empathize deeply with its ways... they serve as models of how things should be.

The more we empathize with the other party, the safer we feel.

If your moon sign is in Leo, you have a lot of empathy for Leos. You empathize with their approach and their aims and their aura.

Imagination is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

I believe sharing stories and experiences is the best way to teach people to empathize!

When you truly empathize with someone, you have to take into account all the things that make that person who they are.

Directing the television serial, 'Thoda Sa Aasman,' was a good learning experience and I can empathize better with producers.

I'm a son of immigrants. I'm not going to reduce my commitment to immigration. But can I empathize with the fact that if your town was 95 percent all white and now it's down to 60, that that can scare you? Can I empathize with that? Yeah.

Empathize with silence by listening for the feelings and needs behind it.

Some of the best actors think they're terrible; that's what keeps you connected to a vulnerability that makes it possible for people to empathize with you.

The greatest gift given to man by God - is the ability to empathize.

I think one of my best qualities is my ability to empathize with people. Perhaps it's because my journey has been so bumpy.