Willem Dafoe Quotes

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

Although I'm not particularly troubled myself, I do have a lot of empathy for troubled characters.

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

Dick understands what I go through. He understands the difficulty and the brutality of the business.

To be truly empathetic, we have to acknowledge that we're all human, we're all flawed, and that life can be difficult.

There is nothing sweeter than to be sympathized with.

If I were God, I'd work on the reach of empathy.

It's amazing what can happen if you just put your arm around somebody.

Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.

To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others.

Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don’t want it.

If you're a person and care about other people - I don't think I have any sort of special understanding or anything, I think any feeling person would experience similar things if given the same opportunities to see the things I've been lucky enough to see and meet the people I've been lucky enough to meet.

It doesn't hurt to show some empathy.

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

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?

We could be much more empathic as a society.

People respond to real problems from the heart.

Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.

People who have suffered know more about compassion.

You need somebody just to say, 'Hey, I'm here for you. Do you need anything?' If you can get somebody like that, you can make it, no question about it. You can make it.

If a guy is hurt, you take care of him. The Falcons didn't do that.

A saint is tolerant and is attentive to the pleadings of other human beings, not only to spoken messages but to unspoken messages as well.

My heart goes out to Lindsay Lohan.

People are sitting at their kitchen table talking about how they're going to pay their bills, and we can speak to the hearts of people on that and show them that we respect them. Ultimately, that's how we have to talk to them. We can't talk down to them.