Top 26 Quotes About Likeability
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. We need to move beyond the idea of 'environment' and fall back in love with Mother Earth.
Nhat Hanh
#4. In conversation, he came off as if he was enjoying a private joke at your expense. When he sang, though, he sounded as if he believed every word with all his heart. And it became hard to dislike him.
Sebastian Rotella
#5. In a late-night monologue, it's not just about being funny; you have to come off as knowledgeable. You have to cultivate a persona of trust and intelligence and likeability.
Anthony Jeselnik
#6. I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#7. Success and likeability are positively correlated for men and negatively for women. When a man is successful, he is liked by both men and women. When a woman is successful, people of both genders like her less.
Sheryl Sandberg
#8. In terms of likeability, that's something that I don't think about as an actor when I approach a role.
David Duchovny
#9. 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
#10. The worst piece of advice I've gotten in my whole career is from somebody who said, 'Remember, it's all about likeability.'
Clive Owen
#12. You've got to have a likeability factor, I think, in your comedy characters. If the guy's really, really funny but you just don't like him or her, then you're never going to root for them.
Rhys Darby
#13. We are far more revealing by the questions we ask than the answers we give. Answer briefly to sense where their questions are heading.
Kare Anderson
#14. I'm a Virgo and I'm more - I don't want to say 'negative' - but I'm the girl who thinks no one's coming to my birthday party, no one's buying my clothes, no one's reading my book, no one's watching my show - that's just how I think.
Rachel Zoe
#15. I hate the concept of likeability - it gave us two terms of George Bush, whom a plurality of voters wanted to have a beer with, and Facebook. You'd unfriend a lot of people if you knew them as intimately and unsparingly as a good novel would. But not the ones you actually love.
Jonathan Franzen
#16. The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it because I think I have a weird barometer in the sense that some of the characters I've cared about the most in movies are characters that are often thought of as despicable.
Damien Chazelle
#17. Its not over, until the Lord says its over.
T.D. Jakes
#18. Countries are effectively paid deference in direct and indirect ways if they're huge oil suppliers.
James Woolsey
#19. We tend to like each other better when walking, sitting or standing side by side or at right angles from each other.
Kare Anderson
#20. There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.
Leon Trotsky
#21. An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.
Spiro T. Agnew
#22. I spent the first forty years of my life making major interventions into other people's lives, and I have an idea of the limitations of that method. I see a major event as rather like major surgery. It is a moment, but whether people use it, whether people go with it, needs to be seen.
Rachel Naomi Remen
#23. Stand-up is great because I can get everything off my chest.
Bill Maher
#24. You can make low-budget film as long as there is something compelling about the characters. There is a believability in the chemistry and a likeability amongst the characters.
Mark McGrath
#25. Gossip bespeaks either a vacant mind or one that entertains jealousy or envy.
David O. McKay
#26. IT IS NOT ABOUT SYMPATHY OR LIKEABILITY, EITHER. EMPATHY IS ABOUT THE TRANSLATION OF FEELING.
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