Not Likeable Quotes

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

Nikki Giovanni

#2. 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?

Alison Owen

#3. 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.

Beau Willimon

#4. If we want users to like our software, we should design it to behave like a likeable person.

Alan Cooper

#5. Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.

Don Marquis

#6. That's why, his mom said, they made fun of him in the first place. "They're just jealous," she said. But Colin knew better. They weren't jealous. He just wasn't likeable. Sometimes it's that simple.

John Green

#7. I try to make all of my roles likeable in some way.

Adam Brody

#8. The Russian drove. New York turned in his seat to make sure I wasn't peeking. He should have been a surfer. His face was full of masculine prettiness and immensely likeable. Which, by horror's law of inverted aesthetics, made me sure we were being taken to our deaths.

Glen Duncan

#9. Anywhere you go liking everyone, everyone will be likeable.

Mignon McLaughlin

#10. 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.

Travis Bradberry

#11. 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.

John Mayer

#12. [Mark Twain] is still the rough, awkward, good-natured boy who swore at the deck hands when he was three years old. Thoroughly likeable as a good fellow, but impossible as a man of letters.

Willa Cather

#13. 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.

Will Smith

#14. 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.

Michael Douglas

#15. Ted Cruz is a nice guy, a likeable guy. He's not crazy. He's not nasty. And he certainly is not - he's not a liar. He's a down - down the middle guy that I - anybody could trust. He has got plenty of integrity.

Rush Limbaugh

#16. 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.

Constance Wu

#17. I'm not a jazz artist. Don't get me wrong now, it's all music to me. I just played music and if it's likeable, someone liked the sound, then fine, but I'm not interested in being a jazz musician. I don't consider myself a jazz musician. I don't have anything to do with that word.

Pharoah Sanders

#18. When you approach it, and I hate sounding like the pretentious actor, but yeah, I think you have to find things within the character that are likeable, or at least human, and not to go at it with any sort of predetermined notions as to what that character is.

Steve Carell

#19. Whatever cosmic attraction had drawn [Jess & Addie] to one another in the first place was beginning to fill in with the chinks and mortar of very real, very likeable human traits.

Bailey Bristol

#20. The good stories, of course, write themselves. And somebody wants to know who are the really good writers, and how many of them there are. There aren't any. Most of the writers are likeable frauds. Some are unlikable frauds.

R.A. Lafferty

#21. 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.

Karen Salmansohn

#22. Why is everyone hugging you? I asked.
I don't know. I'm likeable?

Amy Tintera

#23. The vegan diet is obviously lacking whatever essential nutrient it is that makes people likeable.

Jim Goad

#24. And it's not over-the-top, in-your-face likeable. It's subtle. The kind of likeable that lures you in and before you know it you've bought the ticket, boarded the bus, and are miles into the pleasant journey before you question where you're even going in the first place.

Kim Holden

#25. Mmm, being irresistibly likeable is such a trial,' she drawled in an impeccable aristocratic whine. 'One is constantly in demand, but one must do one's duty, mustn't one, dear chap? Noblesse oblige and all that ...

Susan Napier

#26. Insult is a monstrous scorpion, and compliment is a likeable nightingale; one stings mercilessly, and the other sings sweetly.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#27. 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.

Aimee Mullins

#28. There was more, he was sure. He could feel it. Something deeper. More profound. More worthy. More likeable. It was like a bittersweet yearning for something that was so familiar it hurt. Something he'd lost without even knowing he'd lost it. Something elusive that floated just beyond his grasp.

Alan McCluskey

#29. Shadow found himself starting to like Smith. He told himself that liking this man was not a sensible thing to do. He had met people like Smith before, people without consciences, without scruples, without hearts, and they were uniformly as dangerous as they were likeable.

Neil Gaiman

#30. You have to have faith that if you want people to like your brand, you have to do likeable things. There has to be some degree of trust that, if you're an enjoyable brand, people will want to spend time with you.

Jeff Chapman

#31. 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.

Dee Dee Myers

#32. My definition of likeable may be different from other people's. That's not traditional likeable. Sympathy is a different thing [to define it].

Paul Giamatti

#33. Gillard is as likeable as Rudd is charmless. She is self-deprecating; he is ludicrously vainglorious. She is a mistress of understatement; he is a ranter.

Germaine Greer

#34. I've seen people who are not very likeable but hilarious. I think comedians get to a point where they know they're funny, so they don't care - in the sense that they know what they're doing. They have a skill.

Ted Alexandro

#35. If I wasn't an actor? Hmm, I'd probably be a serial killer. I'm just so damn likeable, no one would ever suspect me.

Zach Braff

#36. I like to write about people who are real and likeable. I like to write about people who tell their stories in that close and intimate voice we use with best friends. I love the closeness and honesty and vulnerability that come from characters who can talk that way.

Katherine Center

#37. We love winners, even though they're very rarely particularly likeable people. They're almost always obsessive and selfish and inconsiderate. That doesn't matter. We forgive them. We like them while they're winning.

Fredrik Backman

#38. Reagan was an exceedingly likeable guy, just a heck of a nice fellow, despite his politics. He was funny and loved a good joke, the dirtier, I'm afraid the more ethnic, the better. I don't think he brought very much to the presidency, except charisma and success.

Walter Cronkite

#39. Make your characters interested in something. Striving for something. In need of something. Good at something. This will make them likeable and interesting.

James Franco

#40. 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.

Felicity Jones

#41. Preachers who talk about everything but the reality of Hell, are likeable betrayers of the Gospel.

Ray Comfort

#42. We have a world full of women who are unable to exhale fully because they have for so long been conditioned to fold themselves into shapes to make themselves likeable.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#43. My theory of what makes people likeable stars is that they're likeable.

Rob Letterman

#44. It really takes likeable superstars to get the attention of the masses.

Jennifer Wyatt

#45. 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.

Steve Coogan

#46. Sometimes it's fun to explore ideas that might make people uncomfortable. If you let it, there's a lot of self-censoring that can go on in the name of remaining likeable, but I don't find that an artistically interesting path to take.

Ted Alexandro

#47. 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.

Jonathan King

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

Julia Sawalha

#49. A party full of 'likeable' people doesn't bear contemplating.

Will Self

#50. In fact, some psychologists are defining self-esteem as the degree to which you believe that you are likeable to others[1]

Roger Covin

#51. 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.

Daryl Hannah

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

Randa Abdel-Fattah

#53. Finding myself a nice and likeable character is a complete change.

Nicholas Young

#54. It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.

Bryant H. McGill

#55. being likeable isn't just about social media or business - it's about living life, to its fullest.

Dave Kerpen

#56. A magnificent cause can overcome a prickly personality, but your ability to enchant people increases if they like you, so you should aspire to both. You'll know that you're likeable when you can communicate freely, casually, and comfortably with people.

Guy Kawasaki

#57. 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.

Omar Dorsey

#58. Most human beings are quite likeable if you do not see too much of them.

Robert Wilson Lynd

#59. I don't think anybody says to Coetzee or Dostoyevsky or Kafka, "Your characters aren't likeable." It's not about your character winning a popularity contest. That's not the writer's job.

Lynne Tillman

#60. Teach her to reject likeability. Her job is not to make herself likeable, her job is to be her full self, a self that is honest and aware of the equal humanity of other people.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#61. Listen carefully, be transparent, be responsive, be authentic, tell great stories-the qualities that would make you the hotshot at a party-and they'll make your organization a likeable one on social networks.

Dave Kerpen

#62. Some of the most likeable people on the outside are capable of truly heinous things.

Kenneth Eade