Sympathetic Quotes

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.

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

I try to find what makes even the worst, most despicable character sympathetic at his or her core.

I am disposed to be thus particular from the interest you take in our welfare and from the entire confidence I have in your knowing, that you will be sympathetic with us in our misfortunes.

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.

No one who knows my personal situation would think I am not sympathetic to the needs of the active forces.

To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating.

If you can find the line between sympathetic and creepy, you have reached a very funny area.

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.

I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'm too busy being mad at everything.

We're sympathetic, but once you step on the field, football's football.

I've been on the other side of the table many times, trying to get people to be sympathetic to projects, and I've been the victim of that kind of intense kindness masking extreme stupidity.

I am a vigilant monarchist. I want to see things evolve. The direction the monarchy seems to be moving in - towards a more mainland-European model - is one I would feel sympathetic about.

More and more the world is growing to love a lover, and one has only to read the newspapers to see how sympathetic are the times to any generous and adventurous display of the passions.

I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain.

At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.

This (George W. Bush's) administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations.

Developing our sympathetic compassion is not only possible but the only reason for us to be here on earth.

Of course, there will be few people who are sympathetic but you don't become a great team overnight, no matter how much money you have at your disposal.

Obama and the Democrats are not focused on the moderates. They're focused on getting their base out, and they're trying to expand that base by forming sympathetic, empathetic alliances with the downtrodden, and there are a lot of downtrodden because Obama has made them that way via his policies.

There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.

Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.

Where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds come to listen with serious and sympathetic men.

I was brought up to be sympathetic toward others.

The pat on the back, the arm around the shoulder, the praise for what was done right and the sympathetic nod for what wasn't are as much a part of golf as life itself.

There are too many people sympathetic to radical Islam. We should be looking at them more carefully and finding out how we can infiltrate them.

There was nothing in all Douglas's powerful effort that appealed to the higher instincts of human nature, while Lincoln always touched sympathetic cords. Lincoln's speech excited and sustained the enthusiasm of his audience to the end.

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.

Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.