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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A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason. – William R. Alger

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Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us. – Orison Swett Marden

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Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. – Thomas More

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Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves. – Randolph Churchill

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…and torture myself with happy thoughts… – Terri Guillemets

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The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side. – James Anthony Froude

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