Sympathetic Characters Quotes

I don't like sympathetic characters.

Hollywood can't stand heroes who aren't sympathetic.

I don't know if I'm a gay icon or not, but with 'A Taste of Honey,' the audience were so touched by the whole story that it certainly helped matters. The characters were so sympathetic that it was as if you had met them.

My wheelhouse is intense characters who have a certain sympathetic streak and also a sense of humor.

I always say the classier cousin of 'Anchorman' is 'Mad Men,' because when you really look at it, why do people really love Don Draper in 'Mad Men?' He's just a terrible guy. But we know why he's terrible, and I think that's really key to why you can be sympathetic to a character.

Terrifying. . . . A Dark Matter is populated with vivid, sympathetic characters, and driven by terrors both human and supernatural. It's the kind of book that's impossible to put down once it has been picked up. It kept me reading far into the night. Straub builds otherworldly terror without ever losing touch with his attractive cast of youngsters, who age beautifully. Put this one high on your list.

There's a great tradition of actors taking on parts of much less obvious sympathy.

The idea that people in novels should be more sympathetic than people in life simply baffles me.

I tend to spend a lot of time building characters that the reader will believe in and sympathize with.

My characters are always utterly sympathetic to me.

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

One must never assume that a character is sympathetic because of either the actor playing them or the fact that they're a lead. I think that's a recipe for failure, actually, because if they become unsympathetic, you lose your audience.

My characters are always utterly sympathetic to me, if that makes any sense.

Ironically, heavier comedians, actors, and the characters they play are actually more sympathetic, and easier for audiences to identify with, than the svelte.

I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.

Actors endow the villain in fiction with a warmth and quality that makes them memorable. I think we like fictional villains because they're the Mr. Hyde of our own dreams. I've met a few real villains in my time, and they weren't the least bit sympathetic.

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

I think a lot of the time, the studio system is so compelled to kowtow to its fear that women are not going to be found sympathetic. It just sort of euthanizes any hope of more diverse examples of the emotional realities of people. Representing my gender, I think, "Well, I have those emotions, why don't those ever get brought to the screen so I can feel recognized?"

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

With 'Vikings,' I had the task of making these people interesting and, to a point, sympathetic.

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