Sterling K. Brown Quotes

It's hard to put yourself in someone else's head.

I wanted to live the inner life of every man I saw, look at the world through his eyes.

I don't think you have to have experienced things to understand them.

I will never actually be able to know what it's like to go through life in someone else's body.

Sympathy relies on a common experience. If you're clumsy, you might have sympathy for others who tend to bump into things. Empathy, on the other hand, is the ability to understand another person's feelings even if you've never experienced them yourself.

I am the type of person that likes to put myself in someone's shoes to 'get' it.

Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through another's eyes or heart.

I have a lot of compassion for human beings in life experiences, so I allow myself to feel what these characters are feeling and don't have a problem accepting that.

The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.

Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place.

I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.

We must put ourselves in the place of those who are to hear us

There is one particular argument that I call our 'ancient war.' If it could be summed up in one phrase, it would be, 'You don't get it. You don't understand what it's like to be me living with you.' There is such truth in that statement. None of us can really appreciate what it is like to be the other person, what that point of view feels like.

I learned the most important thing is to put yourself in the shoes of the players.

If you operate under the premise that everybody already has some experiences that could be sources of empathy for them, I wonder if there's some process of coaxing people into tapping into that knowledge.

I hope people who read my books feel empathy for us and really see us as complicated people.

If acting has any meaning, it is so that we can have greater empathy for other people.

Stories teach us empathy. They reveal to us ourselves in the skins of others.

A helpful thing for me has always been - this is from a great acting teacher Declan Donnellan - is this beautiful way of expressing how and why people do things that other people may not do. It's a simple sentence that says, 'I understand you; you don't understand me.'

I'm interested in roles that are human, that have some sort of empathic quality.

Changing your attitude from self-centerdness to understanding requires desire and commitment to always try to see things from the other persons point of view.

We can empathize as deeply as we can empathize.

It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.

Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture what it would be like from another perspective.

I've been ripped for being too sensitive, but I do think people need to walk in another person's shoes before they accuse them of being too sensitive.