Being Quote by Steve Earle

I don't like sympathetic characters.

— Howard Barker

No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. In even their least sympathetic characters, one senses a kind…

— Roger Rosenblatt

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

— Lee Isaac Chung

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

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

— Taron Egerton

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

— Timur Bekmambetov

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

— Johnny Flynn

The lyrics are usually the last take. So after like five times, saying it over and over again, your voice starts to relax and…

— Galcher Lustwerk

Short story characters, mine anyway, are usually driven by impulse, not so much by their histories and the choices that they have to make.

— Charles Baxter

I never went after character payments. I'm pretty much terrible at naming characters, so I usually name them after people I know.

— Billy Lawrence

Well, that's the great thing about indie film, in general. If it's not subject to the constraints of too much pressure from the studio…

— Ty Burrell

The great thing about writing is that you always put yourself in the shoes of the character. If you're doing it right, you can…

— Peter Gould