Top 25 Quotes About Likability
#1. If I add a negative element to the piece, you are not a villain necessarily but you bring a stronger, more negative aspect to the film, and if you don't do that, the film goes off balance where you can't worry about likability, you have to come in and play the part the best way that you can.
Alec Baldwin
#2. I could see (though not as clearly as I do now) that one of my biggest problems was me. Because I wanted everyone to like me and to approve of me, I tried to be nice to everyone all the time and this proved a remarkably efficient way of losing control over my life.
John Cleese
#3. 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.
#4. Lie down among the pines for a while, then get to plain pure white love-work ... to help humanity and other mortals and the Lord.
John Muir
#5. Don't," her knee narrowly missed connecting with his groin, "call me woman."
He smiled at her - his blood-stained teeth stark against his soot darkened face."Why?" She punched him in the jaw and he reeled, but stayed upright."Did the Chiona steal your gender as well as your likability?
March McCarron
#6. With the case of [Mike] Pence, giving a little aurora of likability to a candidate, a lead candidate who's a little lacking in that department.
David Brooks
#7. When I play a part, I never think about likability.
Rachel Weisz
#8. The question of likability is a bit of a puzzler for me. You know, I don't write people with likability in mind. It's more whether or not I find them compelling.
Patrick DeWitt
#9. I think a lot of Bernstein - but not as much as he does.
Oscar Levant
#11. It's never been a priority for me to concentrate on the likability of the character.
Johnny Galecki
#12. Bull had been around charisma before. The sense that some people had of moving through their lives in a cloud of likability or power.
James S.A. Corey
#13. If a number's individual digits sum to a number that is divisible by three, then it too is divisible by three.
Amor Towles
#15. President Obama's decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident.
Chuck Grassley
#16. The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value.
Washington Irving
#17. Maybe that's the way I'm private - I respect the privacy of "my" characters? Anyway, we're getting close to the whole "relatability" and "likability" thing.
Ben Lerner
#18. My mom,Sarah used to tell me that you could be anywhere when you life begins but you wouldn't know it until it changed everything you thought you knew
Shey Stahl
#19. I also remembered that you were beautiful."
"Memory does play tricks on us."
"No. Your face is the same, but I don't remember what beautiful means anymore.
Orson Scott Card
#20. Willpower works for a few weeks, or maybe a month or two at best.
Rick Warren
#21. Programmer time is expensive; conserve it in preference to machine time
Eric S. Raymond
#22. Comedy and drama are different sides of the same coin. And the thing about comedy and drama is about likability. It's about character first. It's about story. And for me, it's about empathy, and I think the realer someone is, the further you can go either way with them.
Ricky Gervais
#23. If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like.
William Feather
#24. From the moment we were first dumped in Jamestown and had our teeth checked before getting sold off and later considered three-fifths of a human being, an abundance of 'likability' hasn't been something blacks have had to stockpile. Instead, it's been a centuries-long battle for respectability.
John Ridley
#25. As women get more powerful, they get less likable. I see women holding themselves back because of this, but if we start talking about the success-likability penalty women face, then we can do something about it.
Sheryl Sandberg