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Quotes About Sympathy

Sometimes you can just step into the character, and you get all your feelings and emotions just from sympathizing with her and being her. But then, other times, you just have to resort back to anything that you've been through in your own life and try to play that.
~ Charity Shea
Without having an emotional connection or some relatability to the characters, there's really nothing to root for, in some respect.
~ David Nutter
When I see people sad, I'm sad.
~ Anne-Marie
All you'd have to do is get a sad look, and he'd try to do something for you.
~ Margaret O'Brien
It's hard to be scared if you don't feel for a character, because you don't care if they die or live.
~ Elisha Cuthbert
Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.
~ Kangana Ranaut
As with anything that involves emotional pain, comedy isn't too far behind. There's that element of no matter how painful something is - as long as it is not you that is going through it - it can be funny.
~ Ben Miller
Any scene I've ever played where I've thought people who watch it had experienced something like that - for example, people who've had to deal with losing a parent - I want to do it as respectfully as possible for those people.
~ Claire Foy
People think the advantage of a parent in the business is that they'll open doors for you. But the true advantage for me is having someone who knows exactly what you're going through.
~ Katherine Waterston
I feel so linked to Paris.
~ Spencer Stone
It is at a time like this, when crisis threatens the stomach, that the French display the most sympathetic side of their nature. Tell them stories of physical injury or financial ruin and they will either laugh or commiserate politely. But tell them you are facing gastronomic hardship, and they will move heaven and earth and even restaurant tables to help you.
~ Peter Mayle
Kimse kimseye ac?masayd?, hiç bir insan ac?nacak halde bulunmazd?.
~ Peyami Safa
The detectives later learned that Phyllis had told Melton that she felt sorry for Richard Ramirez because he hadn't gotten proper representation with the Hernandezes. Melton thought Ramirez was a mad dog that needed killing. An argument ensued, which grew into a senseless murderous rage.
~ Philip Carlo
Again, one man loses by death a much-loved1359 son; another has a reprobate son alive; both equally to be pitied, though the one mourns over the death, the other over the life, of his boy.
~ Philip Schaff
I am not I; pity the tale of me.
~ Philip Sidney
similarity in experience does not necessarily make a juror sympathetic . . . [but] may lead to less objective and more harsh responses.
~ Phyllis Chesler
It's what they say to do when you're depressed, you know. Walk in someone else's shoes for a while, and your own won't feel so tight.
~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
She liked it? 'I love it--the way you'd love an orphan, or a bird with a broken foot.
~ Pico Iyer
When it was over my daughter said, 'Oh, I felt so sorry for him - he didn't want to hurt you, he liked you.' That was Victoria. When you visualize him up there on top of the Empire State Building, you do feel sorry for him.
~ Fay Wray
You know how when people lose their grandma or grandpa, people they say they're sorry? They do mean it, but... there's nothing to say. There's a void that cannot be filled.
~ Amaury Nolasco
As a mentor, you have to be willing to put yourself in your mentee's shoes to understand their struggles that they deal with. It's not supposed to turn into a pity party by any means, but empathy speaks volumes to a mentee in need of help rather than forced sympathy.
~ Tobias Harris
I don't know, I'm just a weird person like that, I'm kind of sensitive and I feel bad for people that hurt other people 'cause it's just awful.
~ Jeff Bauman
We've got to be kind.
~ Leslie Jordan
The Nation and Government," TR wrote, "within the range of fair play and a just administration of the law, must inevitably sympathize with the men who have nothing but their wages, with the men who are struggling for a decent life, as opposed to men, however honorable, who are merely fighting for larger profits and autocratic control of big business.
~ Jon Meacham