This collection holds 176 sympathetic quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Howard Barker, Damien Chazelle and Michel Hazanavicius.

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I don't like sympathetic characters.

People aren't inherently sympathetic.

Godard never sought to be sympathetic.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.

I was brought up to be sympathetic toward others.

My characters are always utterly sympathetic to me.

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

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.

Be sympathetic with the other person's ideas and desires.

Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.

No place could be less sympathetic to my politics than America.

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating.

The science of the future will be based on sympathetic vibrations.

I'm not very sympathetic to the tendency to bring art to the people.

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

I thought that would be kind of cool, to make a bad guy look sympathetic.

The zombie was just an intriguing character; it is a sympathetic character.

The aid we can give each other is only incidental, lateral, and sympathetic.

Friendship allows you to see your own life but with a second sympathetic self.

The most sympathetic of men never fully comprehend woman's concrete situation.

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

I'm enormously sympathetic to talented people who have few roles to choose from.

There's enough of a willingness in the West to do sympathetic movies about Arab roles.

I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.

It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting.

The idea that people feel that they have to be sympathetic to me? It's a funny concept.

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

It's fun to play a character when you can't concern yourself with how sympathetic they are.

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

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

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

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

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

In any business, the more you learn, the more sympathetic you can be to other people's positions.

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

My mother was very sympathetic. She was the one who really gave me the courage to take my freedom.

I don't think that digital photography is romantic yet. It's not sympathetic the way that film is.

Pre-suasion is the practice of getting people sympathetic to your message before they experience it.

As a firearms owner myself, I'm very sympathetic to the concerns that people like me face every day.

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

My parents, once I made it clear to them that I wanted to do science, they were totally sympathetic.

Kant certainly was sympathetic with the metaphysical tradition of rational theology that he criticized.

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

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

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

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

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

When superstars go down, no matter how sympathetic the circumstances, fans know the franchise could be sunk.

I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.

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