Woodrow Wilson Quotes

I'm a sensitive guy; I respond to things that make my eyes well up a little bit, or make me root for people. I find the human condition interesting.

All writing is presumption, of course, since no one knows what it is like to be another human being.

In the language of an actor, to know is synonymous with to feel

What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

I know that I've had a very fortunate life, but also I think my job as an actor is to connect emotionally to human beings.

Some things were made to be felt

It is not half so important to know as to feel.

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.

I tend to absorb a lot of what other people are feeling.

Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.

I love theater. I love sitting in an audience and having the actors right there, playing out what it means to be a human being.

You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me.

While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders' intentions. If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions.

You can see and you can listen, but you have to have moments in which you feel.

There are some beautiful books out there. But the ones that leave me cold are the ones where I feel - it's that postmodern thing - it's more experimentation with language than it is a deep compassionate falling into another human being's experience.

The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.

Basic emotions can be conveyed through anything. As long as you show people that you're human, they'll relate to it.

There's something in the moment when you can make them laugh or cry and show and incredibly compassionate side of life. I find that a really exemplary way to live.

I always call myself an emotionalist. I feel.

I think every time I can find a story that touches that human nerve, and even sometimes makes you cry, I think that I've found something that I'll like very much.

I think really good drama comes down to real human emotion. That's what makes us all tick, and that's what I've always been drawn to when it comes to scripts is real human emotion and dealing with that.

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'm a man of many emotions, so I'm a human being, and I think that's what people tend to forget sometimes.

I need my 'art work' or 'entertainment work' or whatever to have empathy for or connection to the way I experience the world as a person.