Quotes About Likability

The main work of a trial attorney is to make a jury like his client. —CLARENCE DARROW

I don't know that she is as amusing as she was when she was a child, but she makes me love her and I like people who make me love them. It saves me so much trouble in making myself love them.

I know I haven't much sense or sobriety, but I've got what is ever so much better — the knack of making people like me.

His accent is kind of irresistible, she says. It makes him feel a little lonely to realise how easy it is to be liked by someone who has no idea who he is.

You must: Learn to understand what motivates the people you want to influence. Become an expert at communication. Know how to make people like you. Learn how to inspire people.

You know what I like about you, Finch? You're interesting. You're different. And I can talk to you. Don't let that go to your head." … "You know what I like about you, Ultraviolet Remarkey-able? Everything.

If you want the people to like you, you just need to spend some money.

What you're trying to create is a certain kind of an indispensable presence, where your position in the narrative is not contingent on whether somebody likes you, or somebody knows you, or somebody's a friend, or somebody's being generous to you.

When you start to prioritize hiring likable people within your organization, these likable people will attract other likable people.

It's never been a priority for me to concentrate on the likability of the character.

No support of one star or one director or one producer can make any individual actor a star. You have to connect with the audience; the audience have to like you. That is something that cannot be manipulated or fought for or tried for. Either they like you, or they don't.

I feel like you can't get an audience to like your character if she's actually cool, but you can if she's trying to be cool and sometimes fails.

You get Don King's point of view in what is almost a Shakespearean, classical technique. He comes across almost like a lovable rogue, like Iago in 'Othello' or Richard III. He's doing all these bad things, but I kind of like him. It's like 'Pulp Fiction': Everybody's a bad guy, yet you like them.

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.

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.

I'm not necessarily interested in telling the story of people who are super likable.

Yet he liked her face. He liked her voice. He liked being around her.

Being liked was not much of a reward for being poor and disrespected. By the same token, money and respect were more than enough consolation for having a pack of insecure neurotics dislike me.

Small talk is about putting people at ease. Your unspoken answer to their unspoken question, How do you like me so far? must be, Wow! I really like you.

I have always wanted to be liked and respected.

People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.

I suppose he smiled at Cody - he had probably discovered that people liked him when he smiled.

I don't end up playing a lot of likable characters, so I find myself living in a lot of unlikable skin. As a result of that, I don't always feel good. I get a lot more catharsis from taking pictures or painting or making short films.

I don't know whether it's audiences or filmmakers who want characters to be likable today, but I don't think actors are afraid of their characters being unlikable.