Top 34 Likable People Quotes
#1. The wide world is full of likable people who get kicked in the stomach regularly.
John D. MacDonald
#2. I understand that in TV, people like likable people. In film, you can get away with playing a terrible person. In TV, you're in people's homes every week.
Matt McGorry
#3. Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive.
Walker Percy
#4. This is another thing about the world which is upside-down: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive. Down
Walker Percy
#5. When you start to prioritize hiring likable people within your organization, these likable people will attract other likable people.
Karen Salmansohn
#6. I've played parts that were just likable people, and there's a certain pleasure in that. And that's that.
Annette Bening
#7. I feel like I got hit by a bus." "You kind of did," I said, "only it was an angry orc with the strength and attitude of a silverback gorilla.
Elle Casey
#8. Brain surgeons are dealing with the very last thread of life, and they have to be very confident, but I think they tend to remember their failures rather than their successes, and that must be very hard. Who do you share that failure with? That's why their personal lives are often disastrous.
James Nesbitt
#9. I think I've made a career out of making despicable people likable.
Walton Goggins
#10. Only in bad novels people always think the right thing, always say the right thing, every effect has its cause, there are the likable ones and the unlikable, the good and the bad, everything in the end consoles you.
Elena Ferrante
#11. People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#12. Remember that sports are meant to be fun. Don't let someone make the sport unfun for you.
A. J. Kitt
#14. It's a character that I always found really likable. I'm fond of Zorro because he was a popular figure who worked for the people.
Antonio Banderas
#15. There are people who know Hillary Clinton who tell wonderful stories about her, how likable she is, how funny she is; 99 percent of American people don't - have never seen that side of her.
Mark Shields
#16. Even in a crowded room, likable leaders make people feel like they're having a one-on-one conversation, as if they're the only person in the room that matters. And, for that moment, they are. Likable leaders communicate on a very personal, emotional level.
Travis Bradberry
#17. There are likable characters in prison. Sometimes the worst criminals are also some of the most charming people.
Taryn Manning
#18. If you want to be a leader whom people follow with absolute conviction, you have to be a likable leader. Tyrants and curmudgeons with brilliant vision can command a reluctant following for a time, but it never lasts. They burn people out before they ever get to see what anyone is truly capable of.
Travis Bradberry
#19. 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
#20. I've always sort of preferred people who are not entirely likable.
John Green
#21. There are so few strong roles for women, especially young women. And Veronica is very serious but also very likable. She's a lone wolf, and it appeals to people that she isn't rich and doesn't have a lot of friends. No posse. She's just like you, like most of us.
Kristen Bell
#22. I may not be the most likable person in the world, but I try not to upset people.
Haruki Murakami
#23. Contemporary research shows that happy people are more altruistic, more productive, more helpful, more likable, more creative, more resilient, more interested in others, friendlier, and healthier. Happy people make better friends, colleagues, and citizens.
Gretchen Rubin
#24. The truth is that we don't need everyone to like us; we need a few people to love us. Because what's better than being roundly liked is being fully known - an impossibility both professionally and personally if you're so busy being likable that you forget to be yourself.
Jessica Valenti
#25. The happiest people are not the ones with the best or the most things, but those who most appreciate what they have.
Oliver Gaspirtz
#27. One problem with a lot of musicians is that they remove themselves in a studio and make a record and assume people are going to pay attention to it just because they've made it.
Moby
#29. People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.
Daniel Clowes
#30. Toronto's likable, but it could be a lot more, as I think Montreal is, lovable. What we need more than anything, I think, is a great pedestrian promenade. Pick a busy streetscape, close it to cars forever, and it will fill with people enjoying nothing more than the pleasure of their own company.
Andy Barrie
#31. Well, I think likability is an overused word. I don't watch people 'cause I like them; I watch them because they're compelling. Sympathetic is a little different. Likable just thins you out. Working to make a character likable is what kills most TV shows.
Louis C.K.
#32. Somewhere close behind air and water is the need for food.
L.J. Martin
#33. Underneath he has on jeans and a baggy beige jumper that's twenty quids' worth of knitted depression. "Let's
Tana French
#34. I've always liked TV shows that have slightly unlikable leads, where you root for them in spite of a lot of things. I know it's not common with shows with young people; they have to be so likable. But, I mean, teenagers just generally aren't very likable. I know I wasn't as a teenager.
Bo Burnham
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