Category: sympathy

I’m not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who’s going to win, and I’m not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who’s going to lose.

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

In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.

I have a theory because I was being beaten up a lot by people outside of school, it was almost like if I could make myself sick enough they’d take sympathy on me.

The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.

Here’s my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there’s this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is … Read more

I don’t care about sympathy. I care about playing a character who’s understandable and clear.

Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it, or a vibration that exists between us that convinces me they are right.

There’s something very beautiful and compelling about someone who has ambition and someone who knows what they want, but it can get a little frustrating at times, so I understand that. I have sympathy for that.