Audience Quote by Tim Crouch

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

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

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 care about sympathy. I care about playing a character who's understandable and clear.

— Anson Mount

If you have great characters, then your reader becomes emotionally invested in those people.

— Lawrence Wright

Good characters don't believe they're bad. As long as you as an actor believe in them and try to understand them, it's not hard…

— Alex Hogh Andersen

You have to present characters an audience can relate to.

— Nina Tassler

With any character, you want the audience to at least empathize.

— Tobias Segal

Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience.

— Nicholas Lea

I believe young children in particular enjoy witnessing the survival of youthful protagonists against terrible odds. I think it's gratifying to the reader when…

— Robert Paul Weston

Every young person needs to have a character that they can identify with and feel included by.

— Alesha Dixon

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