A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.
It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.
Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
Sympathy is one of the principles most widely rooted in our nature: we rejoice to see ourselves reflected in another; and, perversely enough, we sometimes have a secret pleasure in seeing the sin which dwells in ourselves existing under a deformed and monstrous aspect in another.
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.
I don't care about sympathy. I care about playing a character who's understandable and clear.
I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy.
There's a great tradition of actors taking on parts of much less obvious sympathy.
Victims always feel alone and helpless.
People aren't inherently sympathetic.