Unlikable Quotes

#1. I'm just attracted to playing people who are ostensible unlikable. That's not to say that there's something in there that makes you care. It might be that you just find them so awful that you just can't stop watching, like a car crash.

Steve Coogan

#2. I'm a fan of Louis C.K., I'm a fan of Lena Dunham. I love shows about people that other people would consider unlikable, or, like, the work of Woody Allen and Albert Brooks.

Jill Soloway

#3. 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

#4. Political leaders or governments owe their position partly to force and partly to popular election. They cannot be regarded as representative of best elements, morally or intellectually, in their respective nations.

Albert Einstein

#5. I'm so grateful that God allowed me to go through that because it's made me.

Betty Williams

#6. There are lots of unlikable characters in literature. It doesn't mean they're not fascinating.

Lynne Tillman

#7. Hush up, minx. You're a funny one, but you're certainly more likable than unlikable.

Julia Quinn

#8. Whether you're writing television or movies, at some point you're going to encounter a male executive or investor who's going to say, 'I don't like that woman. She's unlikable.' And often, it's literally for being a regular human woman as opposed to an attracting human woman.

Jill Soloway

#9. For you, my darlings, freedom to do what you like is the discovery of how unlikable what you like to do makes you. Not that that stops you doing what you like, since you like doing what you like more than you like liking what you do ...
[Lucifer]

Glen Duncan

#10. When she saw a shooting star streak overhead, she asked her beloved what he wished for, and he said he only wished to sit there with her for as long as forever.

Zubin Mathai

#11. I got my hands under the breasts, lifted them. Tons of meat. Meat without mouth or eye. MEAT MEAT MEAT. i slammed it into my mouth and flew into heaven.

Charles Bukowski

#12. The best time to act on this was decades ago. The second best time is now.

David Brin

#13. The Web as we've known it for a long time has been pages linking and pointing to other pages.

Mike McCue

#14. I was going to love her brutally and unconditionally. Forever and ever, amen.

C.D. Reiss

#15. Change the boundaries of business.

Bill Gates

#16. 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

#17. I always would be happy to make a character even more unlikable, but you know, there's a limit and if you go there, you get into a very different kind of movie, man.

Paul Giamatti

#18. I've had male executives say that my lead character was unlikable because she slept with a lot of guys.

Julie Taymor

#19. It's funny what actors take issue with. Some won't do parts where animals are in jeopardy; some won't ever play anyone remotely unlikable - 'Heroes only, please.' Some won't do violence. I have no such qualms.

Rob Lowe

#20. When I left Bradford and got a phone call from Dave Parnaby asking 'did I want to come back in?', I was delighted to accept. The whole buzz at the club at the moment is great for someone like me who is still learning and wanting to hopefully go into management in my own right at some point.

Colin Cooper

#21. It's typical of people to keep seeking answers they can't handle yet. Questions are easy. Everyone's got many. Answers are hard, and usually unlikable.

Cameron Jace

#22. 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

#23. I don't approach a role by saying I'll be unsavory or unlikable.

Michael Rooker

#24. I don't think that because you are a perfectionist that that makes you necessarily automatically unlikable.

Jennifer Garner

#25. 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

#26. Why would I hate you?"
"Because I was being, as Oscar made a point of telling me later, the most unlikable version of myself

Meg Leder

#27. I love it when you like a character, and then she does something you don't like, and you hate her for a while - then you love her again. I'd like to see her have unlikable moments that the audience understands and sympathizes with.

Adelaide Kane

#28. Unlikable characters in books are interesting. Unlikable characters in life are hell.

John King

#29. But of course Anton turned out to be brave and strong, and so he died while he was still unlikable.

Elise Blackwell

#30. Making it happen, It's just something you gotta do.

Auliq Ice

#31. Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.

James Boswell