Quotes of: Sympathetic Keyword

I don't know why, but audiences are often sympathetic to thieves. Sometimes they are more sympathetic to thieves then they are to earnest people. What does that say about society?

Matt Dillon

Every single means of communication amongst the public, the government has antennae into, to find out who is liable to be sympathetic and who is not liable to be sympathetic, and I think this has probably been going on since all channels of communica...

David Lloyd

I alternate between feeling sympathetic toward humanity and being a misanthrope. When I'm sympathetic, it usually means I haven't been around people in awhile.

John Raptor

It's not very interesting to establish sympathy for people who, on the surface, are instantly sympathetic. I guess I'm always attracted to people who, if their lives were headlines in a newspaper, you might not be very sympathetic about them.

John Irving

There's a bizarre insistence on how a story should be. 'The protagonist must be sympathetic!' they say. Whatever that means. I never engage in that discussion. I never use that word, 'sympathetic.' I just know 'interesting.'

Alexander Payne

The deliberate habituation of patriotism has a bearing upon the problem of peace. Knowledge of other peoples will not bring harmony and mutual goodwill unless it is sympathetic knowledge, and, if it is to be sympathetic, our mental prepossessions mus...

Love

I don't like sympathetic characters.

Howard Barker

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

Gian Carlo Menotti

He’s a pagan! I’m an artist! We’re naturally sympathetic!

Sidney Howard

A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise.

Joyce Carol Oates

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

Homer

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

Alexander Siddig

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

Michael Strahan

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

Matthew Modine

I was brought up to be sympathetic toward others.

Joyce Carol Oates

To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating.

Ronald Firbank

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

Steve Earle

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

Peter Asher

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

Jason Segel

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

Pablo Picasso

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

Christopher Atkins