Character Quote by Rachel McAdams

Empathy is much bigger than sympathy. When the character is empathised with, that means you have succeeded as an actor. So even if it's…

— Neeraj Kabi

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

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half,…

— George Saunders

“You can kill the spell of identification just as easily as you can create it—if you lose the readers' sympathy for the character. You…

— James N. Frey

If you're reading a book that I've written in the first person, without named characters, you will periodically perhaps as a reader remind yourself:…

— Douglas A. Martin

I think everybody should act! I would encourage everybody to do one thing, join a theater class or something. It's so good to take…

— Ryan Gosling

Even if a story has nothing to do with my life, if I can recognise something of myself in the character and think, 'Oh…

— Tom Hanks

We get a little further from perfection each year. I think that's called character. I think that's just how it goes.

— Ani DiFranco

I don't think my approach to acting is all necessarily in service of the character. I think, selfishly, I've put it in service of…

— Jake Gyllenhaal

“Without moving, you walk through lands you imagine you can see, and your thoughts, weaving in and out of the story, delight in the…

— Gustave Flaubert

Usually when you're playing a character, you think a lot about their backstory.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I feel the less you project of yourself, the more you can be believable as a character. I also think it's just better for…

— Evelyne Brochu

Sometimes I've felt that the industry has typecast me as a certain kind of character. But then I think all it really takes is…

— David Schwimmer

That's one of those things that will really hurt me personally, if I label a character or think about what it might do if…

— Luke Wilson

I think every actor tries to put a little bit of themselves into each character, and I think if you watch very closely, every…

— Chris Demetral