Neeraj Kabi Quotes

I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel pity for my psychopaths, because I do.

Nobody's really unsympathetic, I think. People do good and bad things. If a character's totally unsympathetic, they're not real and I'm not interested. Even the real monsters have to have a spark of something you can relate to.

If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.

Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.

As an actor, what you dream of is being able to portray people that people empathize with and understand and really feel for.

You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.

People aren't very good at other people's pain.

You hope that when you're playing someone possibly unsympathetic that you can bring them something redeeming, something people can hang onto.

And that's the case with all of James McMurtry's songs. He never presents these characters for us to judge, but only to sympathize with. He has a capacity for compassion with every sketch that he makes with a person that he is not.

At the end of the day, what I try to bring to villainous characters is a sense of humanity.

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 to have empathy and sympathy.

The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me.

I have a lot of compassion for human beings in life experiences, so I allow myself to feel what these characters are feeling and don't have a problem accepting that.

We can empathize as deeply as we can empathize.

With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.

Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering.

As an actor, if you decide that someone is bad... you can't play bad, because even the worst person doesn't think what they're doing is bad.

To act, no matter how the character is, you have to love and have compassion for the character you're playing.

I don't like the idea the viewer can kind of sit there and go, 'Make me like this person.' People aren't inherently sympathetic.

Many really good films allow us to empathize with other lives.

When I step into a character's shoes, I don't judge them. I make a conscious effort not to look from the outside in but look from the inside out, and when you do that it allows you to feel and sense things more, and act and react from a core, you know?

Movies that encourage empathy are more effective than those that objectify problems.

I don't think I can play a role without falling in love with something about her; even the most despicable people who I have portrayed had some aspect of them which I found beautiful.

A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle.

It's important to listen to the actor who is there on the stage and living it.