Empathy quotes

“- Hiccup: Three hundred years, and I'm the first Viking who wouldn't kill a dragon!
[pause]
- Astrid: First to ride one, though. So...?
- Hiccup: I wouldn't kill him, because he looked as frightened as I was. I looked at him... and I saw myself.”
Jay Baruchel - Hiccup
America Ferrera - Astrid (voice)

“My sister Jess and I, we are identical twins. Once something happens to the one of us, the other one could tell. It's hard to explain, but I can just feel it. She's in trouble, and she needs me.”
Natalie Dormer - Sara

“Dreamers need to stick together... It's not programming, it's personal.”
Raffey Cassidy - Athena

“- Kate: What would you do if you were in my shoes?
- Bella: Get new shoes.”
Portia Doubleday - Kate Kassell
Mimi Kuzyk - Bella Shapiro

“Tannhäusser spoke of love, you cannot understand because you are heartless.”
Zsófia Psotta - Lili

“I do because you are just like me. You see Jesus in Gethsemane and believe your trial is the same as His. Those five in the pit are suffering too, just like Jesus, but they don't have your pride. They would never compare themselves to Jesus. Do you have the right to make them suffer? I heard the cries of suffering in this same cell. And I acted.”
Liam Neeson - Ferreira

“- Natalie Jones: How could you not tell me you were feeling this way?
- Tim Jones: Well, look... to be honest, you are not exactly the easiest woman in the world for a man to admit his fears to.”
Gal Gadot - Natalie Jones
Jon Hamm - Tim Jones

“So much of what we perceive cannot be expressed. It's unspeakable. And yet you know, when we communicate with one another and we feel that we have connected and we think that we're understood I think we have a feeling of almost spiritual communion. And that feeling might be transient, but I think it's what we live for.”
Kim Krizan - Kim Krizan

“There's a science to getting people to trust you. With women, it's all about emotion. Connection. That you feel the emotion as strongly as they do. They've been dreaming about that shit ever since they were little girls.”
Will Smith - Nicky

“When we lose empathy, we lose our humanity.”
Goldie Hawn

“War, poverty, cruelty, unneccessary violence. I understand human emotions, although I do not feel them myself.”

Michael Fassbender - David

“We were instant best friends. Two people who understood each other without having to say a word.”
Famke Janssen - Kate Welles

“Patience, Highlander. You have done well. But it will take time. There are generations being born and dying. You're at one with all living things. Each man's thoughts and dreams are yours to know. You have power beyond imagination. Use it well, my friend. Don't lose your head.”

Sir Sean Connery - Ramirez

“You know what music is? God's little reminder that there's something else besides us in this universe, a harmonic connection between all living beings, every where, even the stars.”
Robin Williams - Maxwell 'Wizard' Wallace

“- Cleopatra: Why should they laugh at you?
- Hans: Most big people do, they don't realize that I'm a man with the same feelings they have.”
Olga Baclanova - Cleopatra
Harry Earles - Hans

“You have to look at paintings diffently from the way you look at other things. More closely and see what it says to you.”
Joan Plowright - Sophie

“We need to learn to observe and listen to people more to get to know them.”
Corey Johnson

“I feel like songwriting is an experiment in empathy.”
Zooey Deschanel

“I see people and want to wear their clothes and drive in their cars for a while. That's probably one reason I became an actor.”
Fred Ward

“I've been in Los Angeles for a while, and the kind of psychological connection that one makes to people, it just doesn't happen out here.”
Wayne Knight

“I think what makes us human is our interconnectedness.”
Thomas Jane

“- Retiring Collage President: Professor Wagstaff, now that you have stepped into my shoes...
- Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff: Oh, is that what I stepped in? I wondered what it was. If these are your shoes, the least you can do is have them cleaned.”
Reginald Barlow - Retiring Collage President
Groucho Marx - Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff

“I saw... one of your memories... and it made me feel something. I learned that we're all part of a never-ending story.”
Martin Umbach - Nimbly

“There are points where you become so close to an actor, you know them so well, almost as well or better than their spouse.”
Adrian Lyne

“When I feel really good about a movie in the editing room, it works.”
Tim Story