Top 100 I Don't Like Quotes
#1. I don't like the word 'calculated' because it sounds pejorative. Intentional. Intentional is better, I think. Wild in passion and intentional in expression.
Jane Fonda
#2. I realized that if I don't like something, I can change it. If I don't feel comfortable with something, then I have a voice to say it's not cool.
Zendaya
#3. I've been accused of being a minimalist writer. I don't like a lot of verbiage in there.
Kathy Reichs
#4. Most people who know me know I'm not switched on all the time. I don't like to be like that in real life, because it's draining.
Rebel Wilson
#5. He shrugged. "You're not going to like it, I'm afraid."
"Well ... to be honest, I don't like anything.
G.A. Aiken
#6. I should've written a contract up before we slept together so he understood exactly what it entailed outside the bedroom. It meant you have to agree with everything I say, especially when people I don't like are present
Donna Augustine
#7. I can be completely spontaneous, which is absolutely wonderful. I don't like it at the same time; no one wants to be nervous all the time, but that nervousness mixes with the excitement I feel on the stage, and it makes for a wonderful performance.
Sophie B. Hawkins
#8. I don't like being in debt, and I wouldn't borrow money for anything.
Cameron Mackintosh
#11. I've had days when I go in my bedroom for 24 hours at a time. I call them my Cilla Black days, and they're literally black days. It's like the old Boomtown Rats song 'I Don't Like Mondays.' You just want to shut the whole day down.
Cilla Black
#12. I don't like the fact that most black people or black comedians have to present themselves in a flamboyant way. It's good if you can do that, but I don't like to think that's the way all black comedians are. I'm not that type.
Franklyn Ajaye
#13. I think what irks me is that I feel like women are really being compartmentalized physically, and it's been done so much that now we're doing it to ourselves. I don't like it.
Jill Scott
#14. I'm just an entertainer, man. I don't like to pigeonhole myself to anything. I love to do it all.
Ice Cube
#16. Kate Middleton has a nice silhouette and she is the right girl for that boy. I like that kind of woman, I like romantic beauties. On the other hand, her sister struggles. I don't like the sister's face. She should only show her back.
Karl Lagerfeld
#17. I don't like being a celebrity, really ... Some people get greater praise than they deserve because they have had exposure in the media. I don't think I agree with that at all.
Robert Winston
#18. Chase Jennings, I love you. I love the boy you were and the man that you've become and even when I don't like you at all I still love you because you are you, kind safe and good, because you understand me and are not afraid.
Kristen Simmons
#19. I hate mules. I hate the noise when someone walks with mules. Clomp, clomp, clomp. I think it's very not chic. I don't even like a flip-flop. I don't like this noise.
Carine Roitfeld
#20. I loosen my grip and take a tasteless bite. I don't like bananas much - they're so mealy - but they're a safe fruit to eat, always cleanly wrapped in their own packages. As I chew, I crane my neck to check out the people around us.
Corinne Duyvis
#21. When you didn't let a woman help, it was a way of keeping her at a distance, of letting her know that she wasn't family, of saying I don't like you enough to let you into my kitchen.
Liane Moriarty
#22. Quilty grimaces. "I don't like what comes after 'dicker.' " "What is that?" Quilty sighs. "Dickest. I mean, really: it's not a contest!
Lorrie Moore
#23. I'm a bit claustrophobic, I don't like crowds, I live by the sea - that's what I see when I come out of my house in Bridlington.
David Hockney
#24. I don't like balance. Balance is not a word you can use in Versace fashion.
Donatella Versace
#25. I don't like to look a man in the eye.
Lech Walesa
#26. To this day, I don't like people walking on stage not looking good. You have to look good. If you feel special about yourself then you're going to play special.
Benny Goodman
#27. By the time I could see again, the captain had announced the final descent into Seattle. Couldn't they find a less ominous phrase for it? I don't like flying as it is, even without the implication that before landing I might want to have all my worldly and spiritual affairs in order.
C.E. Murphy
#28. I'm careful not to give into theatrics when times are tough, I don't like it when somebody gives into outside pressure and puts on a show for others.
Tony La Russa
#29. I'm not an extravagant guy ... I don't like going over the top on anything. I have what I need and I try to keep it that way.
Jose Bautista
#30. I don't like explosions. I don't mind progress. But digital photography has made every man, woman, child and chimpanzee a photographer of sorts and consequently has numbed down the general quality of photographs.
Elliott Erwitt
#31. I don't like things to feel forced. I just let it flow, if it's not flowing I just wait a bit in the studio or I go home.
Ryan Montgomery
#32. I don't like to think that maybe I'm just getting old. I'm not too excited about watching a huge explosion. I'm more interested in people and characters.
Norman Jewison
#33. The truth be told, Lord, I don't like you very much right now.
Heather Blanton
#34. I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.
Oscar Wilde
#35. I am so organized that it's dysfunctional. Everything has a place. I am a very visual person, so my environment is important to me. If my environment is messy, I can't think clearly. I don't like clutter. A clean desk is a clean mind for me.
Alexa Von Tobel
#36. I started playing the guitar when I was 14. I'm not superstitious about guitars, but I do need strings to be old because that's part of my sound, and I don't like steel strings.
Jose Gonzalez
#37. The Christian is prepared to say, 'I don't like the sound of this, ... but if this is what it really means, I'm going to have to pray for grace and strength to get that into my heart and be shaped by it.'
N. T. Wright
#38. You may not like what I see but I don't like what you do.
Donna Lynn Hope
#39. I had my hearing aid fixed today so that I could properly hear you. I can't see as well. I now have - this has stopped me from smoking - a pacemaker, have for about the last 15 years. No, I don't like getting old.
Mike Wallace
#40. I DON'T LIKE MY VOICE. I DON'T LIKE THE WAY I LOOK. I DON'T LIKE THE WAY I MOVE. I DON'T LIKE THE WAY I ACT. I MEAN, PERIOD. SO, YOU KNOW, I DON'T LIKE MYSELF.
Elizabeth Taylor
#41. I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
Patrick Stump
#42. I don't like old friends talking to me like I'm a pop star, cos it makes me feel like I'm becoming two-dimensional.
Thom Yorke
#43. I'll wear little dresses for a look and then it'll become only shorts for a while or only t-shirts for a while. So I go through different phases but I combine different things. I don't like things that draw too much attention. It's usually just things that complement me and aren't too loud.
Odeya Rush
#44. I've heard all the coaches complaining about the new CBA rules limiting padded practice. I don't like the reduction to just 15 padded practices during the season. When I coached, we always practiced in pads; and three days a week.
Jimmy Johnson
#45. As a rule, I don't like to laugh at the misfortune of others. The exception to that rule is if it's really, really funny.
Scott Adams
#46. For me, the acting part - and I have to say it makes me a little worried about my own psychological make-up - is that I just love to hide in other characters. I don't like to get up in front of people and talk as Kathy Baker. But as soon as you say 'action,' I'm lost in that character.
Kathy Baker
#47. Well, I don't like to get involved in these philosophical issues very much.
Murray Gell-Mann
#48. I don't like to treat words and sounds like objects. You have to penetrate deeply into their meaning.
Eyvind Kang
#49. I don't like to think of it as being fired. Instead, I prefer to think of it as being on indefinite leave with a sabbatical flair.
J. Cole
#50. Sometimes I look at some of my old work and I don't like it.
Mike Royer
#51. I don't like going to the mall. I'm not really like the other girls. I just like to go out on the golf course and play. Golf is fun and feels really good.
Michelle Wie
#52. I don't like people that litter. If you don't throw a wrapper in the trashcan and you just toss it out on the ground I wanna take you and toss you into outer space.
Dane Cook
#53. I don't like to analyze what I do too much, but I certainly never meet a single person and say, 'You're the next character.' People think that's what I do. They also think that I sit down and observe and try to imitate random people. I've never done that at all.
Chris Lilley
#54. I have a friend who is a juggler. If I'm at his house, I don't like to take food from him, if it's in threes. He has three apples left, I guess I can't have one. I wouldn't want to screw up his practice routine.
Mitch Hedberg
#55. I don't like guys who are conventional. I'm an achiever; he has to be an achiever. I admire drive, I admire ambition. I like a guy who keeps my on my toes.
Priyanka Chopra
#56. Well, we became a vegetarian. But that didn't last very long, because, um, I don't like vegetables. Or salad, nothing like that!
Dakota Fanning
#57. I don't like Tommy on Broadway at all. I like the music, I'm pleased with Pete's success but I don't like what they've done to it.
Roger Daltrey
#58. I kind of like social media, and I like hearing from people. I don't like the ugly stuff, but there are some people - smart people - who have a very different perspective, and I'll get a backlash from them. And this isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Paul Bloom
#59. I don't like men who blow-dry their hair. If you are a man and you blow-dry your hair, then I don't like you and that's all there is to it.
Jack Dee
#60. When you are doing a TV series, people tell you when you have to wake up and when you have to have lunch, and I don't like it.
Thalia
#61. I don't like myself very much as a person, but I'm proud of what I create.
Steven Morrissey
#62. I don't like to be entertaining. I don't like the feeling of being entertaining. If there was a musical or a comedy that was not just for entertainment but was rooted in something I could relate to on a real level, then I think I would do it.
Ryan Gosling
#63. In general, I hate films that are overtly either very masculine or very feminine, you know? The same way that I don't like a war movie about soldiers smashing people's heads. But a chick flick I like would be Cassavetes' movies. 'A Woman Under the Influence,' 'Husbands.'
Gael Garcia Bernal
#64. I hate flying. I don't like planes. I get really anxious.
Lucy Hale
#65. I don't like it when people are too pretty. They have to have character. Something a bit fucked up about them.
Ryan McGinley
#66. I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either.
Gary Bauer
#67. I don't like to read books where I feel as though I've stepped into the middle of things and don't know what's going on. I like to see characters I've met before, but I don't want to feel left out because I haven't read other books in the series.
Jude Deveraux
#68. One should eat everything especially healthy and not junk food. I don't like the idea of starving. I would eat and burn it out in gym. The amount of intake is what matters.
Kareena Kapoor Khan
#69. I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school.
Meryl Streep
#70. I had the habit of not accepting prizes or honors, but always, not out of humility, but because I don't like them. Maybe it's a little crazy, but it's good to have it, but I just don't like them.
Pope Francis
#71. I hope that my ideas attract a lively dialogue, even if my sentences are simple. Simple sentences have always served me well. And I don't use semicolons. It's hard to read anyway, especially for high school kids. Also, I avoid irony, too. I don't like people saying one thing and meaning the other.
Kurt Vonnegut
#72. If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio.
Orson Welles
#73. I would like to meet myself sometime to see how I would look to myself. But I'd have to be in an extremely good state of mind on such a day, because I don't like unpleasantness.
Multatuli
#74. I actually like doing commercials. I don't like doing them to the exclusion of everything else, but I like doing them. The 30-second format is very hard. I sometimes call it American Haiku. And I think some of the commercials I've done are not so bad.
Errol Morris
#75. You catch more flies with honey, ever heard of that?" He shrugged. "I don't like flies. They're annoying." He grinned "I'd rather catch hell.
Heather Hildenbrand
#76. I'll never have a tattoo - I just don't like them, and when you're old they can look a disaster. As for piercings, I don't like them on men.
Rafael Nadal
#77. I don't have a computer - I don't like to get into it that much 'cause it can screw with your head a little.
James Marsters
#78. I'm not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don't have a mobile. I just don't need things. I don't like things.
Yann Martel
#79. I happen to be kind of an inquisitive guy and when I see things I don't like, I start thinking, why do they have to be like this and how can I improve them?
Walt Disney
#80. What I do want is to be transparent about where I am and how I got here. I don't like the cone of silence - it didn't do me any favors in my 20s or 30s, and I don't see it doing much for other women, either.
Rachel Sklar
#81. You never saw Peter Sellers the actor trying to make you laugh. All he was doing was the character. What I'm saying is that I don't think you should know you're in a movie. I don't like it when actors are winking at the audience and saying, 'Right, isn't this funny? Are you with me?'
Steve Carell
#82. They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second.
Michelle Shocked
#83. I don't like to have a calm, orderly, quiet place to work. I often compose while driving, compose in my head. It is true that I wrote my little book, 'The Sounds of Poetry, A Brief Guide,' almost entirely in airplanes and airport departure lounges.
Robert Pinsky
#85. I don't like the way my teeth protrude. I'm going to have them done, but I just haven't had the time. Apart from that ... I'm perfect.
Freddie Mercury
#86. I don't like to say, "Oh, I don't like this kind of music." I like to listen to it and try to see what people who like it get out of it.
John Darnielle
#87. I don't like to risk my life, so I prepare sometimes for months or sometimes for years. But sometimes after a walk, I look what I have done, and I have a little bit of fear coming to me, just looking at pictures.
Philippe Petit
#88. I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do.
Paul Simon
#89. I'm a bit of a control freak, so I always appreciate being inside the nuts and bolts of the music - I don't like newer programs that paper over your cracks.
Max Tundra
#90. I don't like myself. I'm not vain at all. I hate looking at myself - I always think I look ugly. Honest.
Bruno Tonioli
#91. I don't like to put people in a competition to defeat the other.
Michel Gondry
#92. I don't like labels. I don't understand the need for them. When you define yourself a certain way, people have expectations.
Eddie Huang
#95. I don't like to do too much psychological research because it might turn a character into a patchwork.
Sara Zarr
#96. I don't like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
Casey Stengel
#97. Point out the problems, as long as you have a solution. I don't like critics who aren't doers themselves.
Natalie Massenet
#98. I like that theory because Annabeth likes that theory, and if I don't like what she likes, she gets all ha-mazan on me.
Rick Riordan
#99. I don't like people who take drugs ... customs men for example.
Mick Miller
#100. I'm not a Saban guy, because I don't like liars, and I think he lied. I think he lied to the Miami Dolphins and to the fans of Miami, and he left. And it's pretty simple: I think integrity is very important; if you don't have integrity, I don't know how you can be successful.
Ron Jaworski
