Quotes About Likability

It's really nice to know that people can't resist me. I want to be longed. I want people to really like me like nothing else in the world.

That's what frees up an actor: when you don't have to be responsible to likability.

I love Sandra Bullock. I think everybody loves her.

I really like Savannah Guthrie. I think that she is a very likable person.

There's no act. That's the whole Charles Barkley package. That's why people like him.

I like that lady - Sarah Palin. She's great. I like the cut of her jib.

As far as humor goes, I've always been a very insecure person and I've always wanted to be liked.

I don't know what it is that I do, but when I play a really bad guy, I'm able to bring some level of likability to it.

I can't put much weight into whether the public likes me because the more important thing is that, as an actor, I can truly say that there's not a single director or actor who I've worked with who'd have a bad thing to say about me.

I don't worry about whether a character is likable, as long as the character is believable.

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.

I love Katy Perry! She's very charming.

Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.

Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?

There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.

In order for American Pie to have worked, you have to have a character who, even while he is humping a pie, the audience still likes.

Most of my major roles have been to play characters that the audience does not initially like or warm up to and then they grow to like in spite of that.

It's one thing to be this 'tough chick,' but you also have to be likeable.

It is part of our human nature to want to be liked. It is part of our human nature to worry about what others think of us. It is an attribute of greatness and of American exceptionalism to not surrender to our nature, but to be guided by an inner calling to persevere and to prevail, no matter the personal cost.

My father wasn't much for show business. He was an insurance man - very well-liked, very warm. He had a lot of friends.

I scarcely know a professional man I can like, and certainly not one who has been what the world calls successful, that I should the least wish to resemble.

I'm a morning person, which is a hideous thing to be. No one likes morning people, not even other morning people.

You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar.

There are a lot of guys who are respected but not liked.