Character Quote by Howard Barker Download Open image “I don't like sympathetic characters.” — Howard Barker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Characters Like Sympathetic
My characters are always utterly sympathetic to me, if that makes any sense. — Donal Logue Copy Share Image
It's fun to play a character when you can't concern yourself with how sympathetic they are. — Gretchen Mol Copy Share Image
I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant. — Taron Egerton Copy Share Image
There's a bizarre insistence on how a story should be. 'The protagonist must be sympathetic!' they say. Whatever that means. I never engage in… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
A lot of the work I've done has involved playing quite sympathetic characters. — Johnny Flynn Copy Share Image
I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core. — Len Wein Copy Share Image
My attitudes aren't directed toward characters at all. I don't feel sympathetic toward some characters, unsympathetic toward others. I don't love some characters, feel… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I don't care about sympathy. I care about playing a character who's understandable and clear. — Anson Mount Copy Share Image
I don't think I like characters who are afraid and ashamed of who they are. — Christina Ricci Copy Share Image
I don't like nihilistic characters. As bad guys they're great, but as heroes they don't work. — Drew Goddard Copy Share Image
“I wish I were not sensual... I wish I had not got from my mother, or my father was it, this need to grasp… — Howard Barker Copy Share Image
It is impossible – now, at this point in the long journey of human culture – to avoid the sense that pain is necessity;… — Howard Barker Copy Share Image
When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I… — Howard Barker Copy Share Image
I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is… — Howard Barker Copy Share Image
“It's time we started taking our audiences more seriously, and stop telling them stories they can understand.” — Howard Barker Copy Share Image
I’ve often taken important classical, biblical or literary stories and interrogated them. I have tried to reinvigorate Lot by interpreting it differently. — Howard Barker Copy Share Image
I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly. — Howard Barker Copy Share Image
I believe in poetic discourse, in the value of speech in a non-naturalistic way; it's speculative. — Howard Barker Copy Share Image
Theatre should be a taxing experience: the greatest achievement of a writer is to produce a character who creates anxiety. — Howard Barker Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
