Quotes About Sympathetic Characters

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

Taron Egerton

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

Timur Bekmambetov

#3. No writer besides Shakespeare has created more memorable characters attached to vices and virtues. In even their least sympathetic characters, one senses a kind of helplessness to passion quivering between the poles of good and evil.

Roger Rosenblatt

#4. I don't like sympathetic characters.

Howard Barker

#5. Sympathetic characters usually have a voice. They usually don't have any trouble being heard.

Steve Earle

#6. The past is dead, and has no resurrection.

Henry Kirke White

#7. Madaming is the sort of thing that happens to you - like getting a battlefield commission or becoming the dean of women at Stanford University.

Sally Stanford

#8. 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 contempt for others. They have attitudes; I don't.

Don DeLillo

#9. Oh, Grandmother, what terribly big teeth you have!

Marissa Meyer

#10. Any coward can instill fear. It's easy to scare people, but having the strength to make them feel safe? Now that's power.

Nick Shamhart

#11. I think my characters with my fingers, I think my characters with my guts. But when I say I think them, that is what I do, I feel them with the sympathetic neurons and I work out with my brain what it is that I am trying to write about, or I can't do it.

A.S. Byatt

#12. My characters are always utterly sympathetic to me.

Donal Logue

#13. I fall in love with characters when they're out of their element or are uncomfortable and you really feel for them in a knee-jerk sympathetic way.

Anna Kendrick

#14. I like to think what I bring to the table is kind of a sympathetic and endearing quality, even while I'm playing outcasts or characters that end up in outlandish situations.

Jason Biggs

#15. many marketing methods are filled with lies and deceit, in order to trap the client. God takes all of this very seriously and it prevents Him from hearing our prayers.

Ana Mendez Ferrell

#16. My wife gets asked all the time, 'Ugh, how can you be married to that guy?' She's like, 'Hey, he's not yelling and screaming at me!'

Steve Wilkos

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

Randa Abdel-Fattah

#18. What's the best that can happen? That is the question to ask. What

Mo Gawdat

#19. I suppose that the sympathetic/unsympathetic debate about characters sometimes feels to me like a misstatement of purpose. I always think of truly complex characters are falling between the cracks in that debate.

Rick Moody