Empathy is much bigger than sympathy. When the character is empathised with, that means you have succeeded as an actor. So even if it’s a villain, the audiences don’t hate you… they understand why you have turned into a villain.
I have buckets of sympathy for the obese, often subject to cruelty, ridicule, denunciation, and contempt.
Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
Sympathy with nature is part of a good person’s religion.
Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.
Captain Hale, alone, without sympathy or support, save that from above, on the near approach of death asked for a clergyman to attend him. It was refused. He then requested a Bible; that too was refused by his inhuman jailer.
I joined the Party definitely in 1923 after having already been in sympathy with it before.
Reasoned arguments and suggestions which make allowance for the full difficulties of the state of war that exists may help, and will always be listened to with respect and sympathy.
He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it.
You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.
I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people’s minds better than we Liberals.
Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.
I didn’t feel any remorse or sympathy if I injured a rival. I went over the top a few times but I never broke anyone’s leg.
Despite my excellent mood, I don’t have any sympathy for Romney. If he’d been a good candidate he wouldn’t have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.
All art is an intensely vulnerable gesture, and it is made with no small amounts of risk, and fear. So, I have plenty of sympathy for self-defense mechanisms, especially among artists.
In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
I’m completely indifferent to what genre I read provided that I feel sympathy with how a writer perceives being alive in the world.
My upbringing has given me sympathy for the idea of isolation and what it is to be a new person in the room, where everyone else has some amount of familiarity and comfort.
The late Tom Wicker’s biography of Nixon, called ‘One of Us,’ is really quite good: you see the biographer discovering dimensions of sympathy for his subject that he hadn’t expected to feel.
I’ve never wanted sympathy votes in anything I do in my life.
Any sympathy won for Aileen Wuornos based on a lie is not sympathy at all. The question is, can we have sympathy for the circumstances of someone’s life? That’s what I was interested in.
There’s little place for sympathy in football.
I have always had sympathy for Atletico Madrid because, among other things, I have friends there, and my father always liked Atletico.
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.
Every footballer plays with the hope that people love to watch you. But, for me, there is no sympathy or interest. I don’t seem to have any charm for fans.
