You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.
Although I'm not particularly troubled myself, I do have a lot of empathy for troubled characters.
You have to have empathy, knowledge and compassion for your characters if you're a writer.
To act, no matter how the character is, you have to love and have compassion for the character you're playing.
It's important to find characters that share sympathy with a young audience, not just in the story but their role in the world.
I've always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. You're trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what that's about so you can represent it.
I have a lot of compassion for human beings in life experiences, so I allow myself to feel what these characters are feeling and don't have a problem accepting that.
In order to inhabit a character, you've got to embrace and empathise with them.
I get cast as a lot of sympathetic characters. I'd like to play someone really unpleasant.
I don't care about sympathy. I care about playing a character who's understandable and clear.