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Quotes About Likability

You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar.
~ Stephen King
People like me as a host.
~ Nicole Byer
She's easy to like. I've never understood why that's considered a compliment – that just anyone could like you.
~ Gillian Flynn
I've never understood why that's considered a compliment – that just anyone could like you.
~ Gillian Flynn
Unless you're a serial killer, you're worried about being liked by somebody.
~ Kristin Bauer van Straten
There's such an emphasis on having a character be likable. I don't think it would be helpful if I worried about that. I mean, not everyone's likable.
~ Adam Driver
Iago is one of the most liked characters in Shakespeare's canon, and he's the most evil, most extraordinarily manipulative person in history. He says the worst, most politically incorrect things, even for the time the play is set in - and yet audiences adore that character.
~ Kelsey Grammer
I would rather have people say let's see more of her than she's too much.
~ Agnes Moorehead
It was clear to me that both were intelligent, kind people, but careless with each other's feelings, and poles apart in temperament. I liked both immensely; I hated their way together.
~ Esi Edugyan
I really enjoy those characters like 'Profit.' With those elements that are shady and dark, you're not responsible for being a likable character. Like some of Jack Nicholson's characters, you remember them for so long.
~ Adrian Pasdar
Contemporary research shows that happy people are more altruistic, more productive, more helpful, more likable, more creative, more resilient, more interested in others, friendlier, and healthier. Happy people make better friends, colleagues, and citizens.
~ Gretchen Rubin
So now Lorraine did TV interviews. The fascination with her was endless. Her natural likability came out because you simply can't teach that.
~ Harlan Coben
I was liked, and what a difference it made.
~ Maya Angelou
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
~ Bertrand Russell
It doesn't even matter if they out-and-out abhor me, Because when I am done with them, they'll totally adore me.
~ Judith Viorst
As far as humor goes, I've always been a very insecure person and I've always wanted to be liked.
~ Peter Steele
I suppose I am instinctively flirtatious. But not exclusively to women. I want to be liked.
~ Gyles Brandreth
I may not be the most likable person in the world, but I try not to upset people.
~ Haruki Murakami
You feel as if everybody has been given an instruction manual on how to be likable, but you didn't get it. And they are all sold out now. And if you are what you eat, then you must have surely spent the last few years of your life eating dog food and cat shit. Because when you look in the mirror, it is all that you see.
~ Heather O'Neill
You feel as if everybody has been given an instruction manual on how to be likable, but you didn't get it. And they all sold out now. And if you are what you eat, then you must have surely spent the last few years of your life eating dog food and cat shit. Because when you look in the mirror, it is all that you see.
~ Heather O'Neill
His deepest need was that people should like him. An admirable trait that; in a spaniel. Or a whore.
~ Michael Dobbs
I would prefer to be well-liked in any and all situations.
~ Janeane Garofalo
I grew up in a post-dictatorship dictatorship society. The axis of likability is how dictatorships survive. Becoming popular is part of what dictatorships hijack to remain in power. For me to write things from the same toxic axis that made stronger the dictatorship that completely disfigured my family and my society, it just wasn't going to happen.
~ Junot Diaz
I'm just me. I'm that cool girl who - as I like to say, I have that Carson Daly effect, where, if you watched 'TRL,' he was able to do interviews with NSYNC, blend right in, and then he would do interviews with Cash Money and blend in there, and you just naturally liked him.
~ Karen Civil