Likable Characters Quotes

#1. Since 1977, there have been many science fiction movies, but none has managed to equal [ A New Hope 's] blend of adventure, likable characters, and epic storytelling.

James Berardinelli

#2. There are likable characters in prison. Sometimes the worst criminals are also some of the most charming people.

Taryn Manning

#3. Ultimately, if the character is interesting and you said that before: It doesn't matter if it's likable. That's really what it is. If they interest you. If the context in which the characters are set interests you then I think then you're pulled in by it.

Christian Cooke

#4. A great character needs trials to overcome - experiences to give them depth, to make them vulnerable, relatable, and likable. Good characters need hardships to make them strong. The idea makes sense, but it still sucks if you're the heroine.

Kelly Oram

#5. It's a funny show. The characters are surprisingly likable, given how ugly they are. We've got this huge cast of characters that we can move around. And over the last few seasons, we've explored some of the secondary characters' personal lives a bit more.

Matt Groening

#6. Since I had a soft spot for zombies and my curiosity was killing me, I opted for plan Z.

Darynda Jones

#7. In order to appeal to a wider audience on network in order to survive, generally your characters need to be, at a base level, a little bit more likable.

Shawn Ryan

#8. Making money isn't a bad thing at all - it allows for a lot more freedom.

Robin Sharma

#9. I think some of the big characters, you know, they do these adventures, but they've got something about them, they've got this charisma, and they've got to have a sense of humor. Because whether it be very dry, or very silly, they've got to be likable.

Rhys Darby

#10. I make a big pot of pasta with vegetables, and I stretch it out for the week.

Sylvia Kristel

#11. Watching 'Girls,' it was really angering for me at first, because I really had spent decades hiding unlikable, unattractive Jewish girls in likable, attractive, non-Jewish actors and characters.

Jill Soloway

#12. States should not balance their budgets on the backs of students.

Arne Duncan

#13. [I] have fantasies of killing myself and thus being the powerful one not the powerless one.

Anne Sexton

#14. I do want to play characters that have redeeming qualities, that are likable, for sure, and I have in the past, and I will again.

Pablo Schreiber

#15. You have to imbue the characters with their own sort of feeling of justification and morality. Everyone has that, whether we see them as evil or not. So I try to bring the characters to life by making them likable or lovable, in the sense that they can be, at least to themselves.

Mark Russell

#16. I think even the characters that are fundamentally evil and wrong, I want people to really love them. I think that's important to writing believable characters. They don't have to be likable but they have to be loved, at least by the author.

Mark Russell