Judy Greer Quotes

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.

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

You can't understand a character intellectually, you have to become one with its emotional core.

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 wanted to get people to feel where I'm coming from and connect with people who are feeling the same way that I am.

I think that people relate on matters of the heart.

All my life I've been interested in other people's stories. I wanted to know them, understand them, feel them.

I'm pouring my guts out so they can feel like your guts at the same time.

Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.

The one thing people like about my show is it's universal. Everybody can relate to it. I think people enjoy going to a show and saying, 'Something like that happened to me.'

The music I always liked as a kid was stuff I could bum out to and realize, 'Hey, someone else feels that way, too.' So if someone can do that with my music, it's mission accomplished.

I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.

How can you expect a man who's warm to understand one who's cold?

Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.

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.

Part of the allure of watching characters on-screen is to be able to put yourself in his or her shoes or to be able to relate to what he or she is going through or what he or she is thinking.

If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else.

It would be hard to play a character you don't like - for me anyway - or can't find something in them to like.

But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.

When you are playing someone who is dealing with issues on a really personal level, if you don't bring your own issues into the equation, it's not going to feel really personal to the people watching it.

I'm a very sensitive person by nature. Things move me very easily, like music or videos on Facebook, and I feel for people.

People aren't very good at other people's pain.

I think that's an incredible thing that we can do as actors - to feel empathy toward someone that you may otherwise detest, you know?

Most actors will tell you this - I don't really know how to connect, empathize with, or make worthy of any revelation a character that doesn't have love in there somewhere, that doesn't have an idealism or an empathy in there somewhere.

The first word that always came into my head with Henry VI was 'empathy.' He doesn't have a barrier between what other people feel and what he feels.