Top 35 Likeable Quotes

There’re two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.

Outside the ring, I’m not a mean guy. I’m a likeable guy. I’m reachable, to my people.

The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.

I’ve had great pleasure meeting the likes of Newt Gingrich and having a chat with the fellow on a staircase. I found him completely dishonest and totally likeable, because he doesn’t care! He knows what a politician is, and he’s a perfect embodiment of one.

I do think there are some actors that can get away with trying to be funny, and they’re still funny because they’re just likeable, and you want to see them. Me, though, when you see me trying to be funny, it’s like the worst thing in the world. It’s needy, it’s cloying, it’s manipulative – it’s bad.

I always find it easier to portray myself as being unlikeable and idiotic; to actually play a character that is likeable and engages the audience is far more difficult. It’s a more subtle kind of challenge.

I don’t try to be likeable. The worst thing people do is present versions of themselves to the world that aren’t real.

I always felt weird. I don’t feel particularly likeable.

I’ve trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable.

You can’t worry too much about what you think the audience wants to hear. You just have to hope that you’re a likeable enough person that what you’re saying will relate to other people, so they can laugh at it as well.

People lie in everyday conversation to appear more likeable and competent. While men and women lie equally as often, they tend to lie for different reasons.

My dad’s so likeable, you wouldn’t feel in competition with him. If any boyfriends have ever felt that, they’re long gone.

Sometimes I just go, ‘Is it me? Am I really just not that likeable?’ The cool thing is, when you go out there and see a lady get mad or a guy get mad, or they hate you because you didn’t come from the independents, or whatever, what I like to do is just pour kerosene on that fire.

If people hate Michael Langdon, that’s a good thing. I’m not going to debate that. I don’t worry about making him likeable… My real focus in playing Langdon is making his intentions clear and how he operates and what his mission is and how he shapes the perception of who he is around people.

We have come to expect campaigns to be mean and stupid and politicians to be unresponsive, self-seeking and for sale to the highest bidder. We make jokes about our vice president, and all we ask of a president is that he be likeable. We seem to have given up on the Pentagon’s corrupt use of our tax dollars.

When it comes right down to it, whatever business you’re in, you’re in the people business. After all, people prefer to do business with people and companies they find likeable.

So we all want to be liked; I just don’t always think I’m that likeable. I think my personality is really 50-50.

It’s the first villain that I’ve played in a movie that has absolutely no vulnerability and no innocence, nothing whatsoever that is likeable about her other than she’s so bad.

Because I’m a big guy, I was always playing the bad guy or whatever, but after I did ‘The Blind Side,’ where I played a father who’s a really loving, likeable sort of person, a lot of those barriers were broken down. People saw me as something softer, not so much as a heavy anymore.

That was the most important thing to me: making sure ‘Gardner Elliot’ was likeable and funny and interesting. I took my time before filming to chat with Peter, the director, to create this character.

The most interesting characters keep us hooked. Not likeable ones! Iago, Shylock, Darth Vader – are they likeable? Do you want to invite them to dinner?

If you think a candidate is electable and has the adeptness to be president, that’s one thing. Elect him for these factors, not because he’s likeable.

Some people are inherently likeable. If you’re not – work on it. It may even improve your social life.

There’s something really freeing about playing a character that isn’t even, like, remotely likeable whatsoever.

In general, being likeable is more about being interested – rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.

I was supposed to be authoritative, but at the same time had to be likeable, a quality that is a bonus, not a requirement, for men in the same position.

Richard III is not likeable. Macbeth is not likeable. Hamlet is not likeable. And yet you can’t take your eyes off them. I’m far more interested in that than I am in any sort of likeability.

Chocolate is one of those flavors that’s very likeable, very loveable, very versatile.

I hope that what it comes down to at the end of the day is that people believe that I believe what I’m singing. It comes down to being believable. You don’t have to be likeable; generally, though, I think I am.

I was once told that I had become too confident and that it made me less likeable. Many successful people will get this at some point, because the people who haven’t followed a similar path can be threatened by someone who has and is unabashed about it.

I don’t know if likeable, pleasant characters have enough conflict for me to want to do them. I admire those people, but I’ve never been that kind of screen presence who can do nothing. I need to do something.

You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It’s difficult, because there’s a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.

I’ve always liked people who know me to like me, because I think I’m quite likeable. But people who make up their minds based on the image in the papers or a voice on a pop record? They’re idiots.

I don’t ever really feel guilty about music, quite frankly. When you’re younger, you think that anything you don’t like, you have to hate. I’m so far beyond that perspective. Although, I will say I resent Bruno Mars for making me like him as much as I do. I wish that he wasn’t so likeable.

Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.