Sympathetic Quotes · Page 2

I don't like sympathetic characters.

— Howard Barker

Hollywood can't stand heroes who aren't sympathetic.

— Patty Jenkins

My characters are always utterly sympathetic to me.

— Donal Logue

A lot of the work I've done has involved playing quite sympathetic characters.

— Johnny Flynn

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

— George Saunders

The idea that people in novels should be more sympathetic than people in life simply baffles me.

— Andrew O'Hagan

I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.

— Clarence Thomas

I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.

— Taron Egerton

I believe there is no one deeper, lovelier, more sympathetic and more perfect than Jesus...

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I always loved Flannery O'Conner, and how she's not trying to create sympathetic characters.

— Lee Isaac Chung

No amount of scholastic attainment, of able and profound exposition of brilliant and stirring eloquence can atone for the absence of a…

— David Brainerd

The Russian famous actors involved [into The Darkest Hour], they are very creative and they will create sympathetic characters.

— Timur Bekmambetov

Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.

— Zadie Smith

Well, I worked in a sheet metal factory once and scarred my wrist from the cuts. I found a sympathetic psychiatrist who…

— Tom Verlaine

I wanted readers to be genuinely unsure as to whether she's telling the truth or lying. It meant making her partly sympathetic,…

— Lee Child

“To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

She had listened to him, partly sympathetic, partly horrified. For it was one thing for her to reject her background, to be…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

I am generally way out of touch with trends, except now and then I am surprised to find myself leading one, like…

— Fred Saberhagen

Sometimes people want to know how to write a story from the point of view of a murderer and make her sympathetic.…

— Alice Mattison

I'm very interested in people who seem very negative and nasty and to go inside their world and see why they get…

— Natalie Portman

Life is hard, and children have to be told how hard life can be…So they will be sympathetic to others. So they…

— Matthew Quick

I really can't claim ever to have had an exceptionally close relationship with a minister. I'm always there. I pay my pledge.…

— Marilynne Robinson

It is at a time like this, when crisis threatens the stomach, that the French display the most sympathetic side of their…

— Peter Mayle

The chronic kicker, even the most violent critic, will frequently soften and be subdued in the presence of a patient, sympathetic listener—…

— Dale Carnegie

With respect to the development of powers devoted to coping with specific scientific and economic problems we may say that the child…

— John Dewey

Either an ordered Universe or a medley heaped together mechanically but still an order; or can order subsist in you and disorder…

— Marcus Aurelius

Kant does not think there is anything wrong with being beneficent from sympathy. He thinks we have a duty to cultivate sympathetic…

— Allen W. Wood

And sure enough,the youth in question was not his usual dapper self. His face was puffy, his eyes red and wild; his…

— Jonathan Stroud

People who expect to feel guilty tend to be more sympathetic, to put themselves into other people's shoes, to think about the…

— David D. Burns

At the core, I am an actress. And I think, in a way, that's a good thing in that I am, I…

— Patricia Clarkson

There is no history of Donald Trump associating with the Ku Klux Klan. None whatsoever. But beyond that, people are saying that…

— Rush Limbaugh

I, for one, despite being a pretty solid climate hawk, I am extremely sympathetic to West Virginia and its coal-country needs. I…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

He [Hern] calls his center the Boulder Abortion Clinic and he said specifically that he didn't want to hide that word. I'm…

— John H Richardson

So many dictators trying to blackmail the free world because they have no way to compete on ideas, innovation or creativity. The…

— Garry Kasparov

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

— Pablo Picasso

“We are sometimes hurt mostly or only not by what happened or is happening to us but by being felt sorry for.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Argument need not be heated; it can be punctuated with courteous smiles - or sympathetic tears.

— J. Sidlow Baxter

To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating.

— Ronald Firbank

It's fun to play a character when you can't concern yourself with how sympathetic they are.

— Gretchen Mol