Compassion Quote by Taylor Goldsmith

if an author would have us feel a strong degree of compassion, his characters must not be too perfect.

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

— Orson Welles

As for others whose lives are not so ordered, he reminds himself constantly of the characters they exhibit daily and nightly at home and…

— Anonymous

Mel Gibson doesn't need your judgment, he needs your prayers.

— Jim Caviezel

Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.

— Alan Rickman

Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the only normal writer left on earth -- and it is this that adds to his isolation…

— Malcolm Lowry

I'm convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture,…

— Anonymous

Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the one normal writer left on earth and it is this that adds to his isolation and…

— Malcolm Lowry

“For a celebrity he has an awful excess of sensibility, and is very anxious about one's opinion of him. Perhaps it comes of being…

— Zen Cho

Jim, as just a spoken poet, was not that good. He needed the music behind him. He felt a security and a sense of…

— Ray Manzarek

“But sympathy in novels need not be simply a matter of the reader’s direct identification with a fictional character. It can also be driven…

— Jonathan Franzen

I have never seen Francis Crick in a modest mood. Perhaps in other company he is that way, but I have never had reason…

— James D. Watson