Care Quote by Anson Mount

To me sympathy for a character has little to do with how morally upstanding or wicked they are. All that really matters for me…

— James Lasdun

You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.

— Laura Carmichael

I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the…

— Tom Perrotta

Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't try to kind of go for the overly sympathetic. I don't really like sympathy; I don't like it for myself. Sometimes sympathy…

— Charlize Theron

The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

I'm not a person who lives for sympathy.

— Bianca Del Rio

I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of…

— Richard Russo

Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.

— Lillie Langtry

Sympathy is the charm of human life ...

— Grace Aguilar

Sympathy is a shallow stream in the souls of those who have not suffered.

— W. Sangster

I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not…

— A. C. Benson