Quote by Edward Norton
Ive always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, wh

Ive always thought of acting as more of an exercise in empathy, which is not to be confused with sympathy. Youre trying to get inside a certain emotional reality or motivational reality and try to figure out what thats about so you can represent it. – Edward Norton

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Just because youve made a couple movies, youve done some good movies, youve been nominated for some Academy Awards, whatever, nobodys entitled. Its a business. If they dont see it, I can think theyre wrong, but Im not entitled to a $15 million budget to make a film. – Edward Norton

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The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions. – Edward Norton

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I have this embedded faith in the process through which films of a certain type get discovered on longer timelines. – Edward Norton

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Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion. – Louise J. Kaplan

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Although Im Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version! – David Chalmers

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A sorrows crown of sorrow is remembering happier times. – Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction. – Anne Sullivan

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