Likeable Quotes - Page 2

• I don't think anybody says to Coetzee or Dostoyevsky or Kafka, "Your characters aren't likeable." It's not about your character winning a popularity contest. That's not the writer's job.

  Lynne Tillman

  Jobs, Character, Winning

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The individual attributes of warmth and competence are often perceived to be negatively correlated. That doesn't mean they actually are, but that's how people perceive the world. So, cruel people, those who gave negative book reviews, for instance, were seen as less likeable but as more intelligent.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Book, Mean, Intelligent

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• [My hair] creates this Tarzanesque, likeable bad-boy image. It says, 'I am a wild child. I will take you on a Harley ride, then make passionate love to you. And should you be attacked by a lion or an idiot at a bar, I will protect you.'

  Bret Michaels

  Children, Boys, Hair

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• I like to write about people who are real and likeable. I like to write about people who tell their stories in that close and intimate voice we use with best friends. I love the closeness and honesty and vulnerability that come from characters who can talk that way.

  Katherine Center

  Honesty, Real, Writing

  Interview with Angie Mizzell, angiemizzell.com. June 16, 2009.

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• My theory of what makes people likeable stars is that they're likeable.

  Rob Letterman

  Stars, People, Theory

  Source: collider.com

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• Jonathan Coe's genial, likeable novel can only be described as a kind of lit-prog-rock concept album... Coe recreates the period with such loving accuracy that I frankly suspect him of having planted a secret microphone in the tin Oxford Mathematical Instruments box I carried around in my school days... As always with Jonathan Coe, the sheer intelligent good nature that suffuses his work makes it a pleasure to read.

  Peter Bradshaw

  School, Intelligent, Oxford

  "Boys will be boys" by Peter Bradshaw, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2001.

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• I've worked with Sourav and I enjoy his company. I found him to be likeable and a very nice fellow. It will be good to renew the acquaintance.

  Greg Chappell

  Nice, Found, Enjoy

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• Finding myself a nice and likeable character is a complete change.

  Nicholas Young

  Nice, Character, Finding Myself

  Source: collider.com

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• It was great to have a Republican character as likeable as Alan Alda was in the West Wing. He was one Republican I would probably vote for; he was old school.

  Allison Janney

  School, Character, Vote

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• I guess I always knew going into the movie that casting that part would be difficult. Oliver just felt likeable. I felt it would be hard to dislike this man. I don't know why, but I'm sure other directors have felt the same when casting him. Oliver is goofy yet formidable, smart but likeable... I didn't want the character of Alex to be nasty or demonised. I wanted him to be struggling with his actions.

  Nicole Holofcener

  Smart, Struggle, Character

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I'm writing what I want to write. But it's almost an act of rebellion on my part. Because as a person, I've always wanted to be very likeable, and I think that's a horrible thing, particularly for women. You're always like, "Oh, I hope I didn't hurt anyone's feelings. I hope they like me!" And that's just so stupid.

  Tama Janowitz

  Hurt, Stupid, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Theresa Rebeck's writing is so scarily funny. I just love how unapologetic she is with her writing: she doesn't try to make her characters likeable or heroic, she just really makes them human. Hopefully, the audience is able to love them in the end - or have whatever feelings that they want to have about all of them - but I love that she doesn't have that agenda. That is something that, as an actress, was really appealing to me; to just get to be in this group of people who are complicated and very human.

  Lily Rabe

  Character, Writing, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Pretty much all comic-book people, like all Hollywood people, for the most part, are pretty liberal. I think especially UK writers. Alan Moore is probably the most radical guy you'll ever meet. I grew up loving those guys, so my heroes, as a kid, were radical cartoonists, essentially. I couldn't help but - I grew up in a left-wing household. But I do think it's fun, writing right-wing characters. I've found it interesting, just as a writer, to get inside their heads and make them likeable.

  Mark Millar

  Fun, Hero, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• As an actor you always wanna protect your character. You wanna make them loveable, likeable. You wanna make them strong, you want them to be the hero, you want them to always be right.

  Katrina Law

  Strong, Hero, Character

  Source: comicsbulletin.com

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• Studies show that women seeking power tend to be punished for doing so, because it goes against cultural bias. Women are expected to be likeable and pliant. We are also trained to expect any success we attain to come to us through men - by pleasing men, as good employees, good partners.

  Catherine Mayer

  Men, Study, Partners

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

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• Why Nicolas Sarkozy is the head of France, [he is] warm and extremely likeable.

  Bob Dylan

  France, Warm

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• It is very simple to be likeable in Washington. You just go along to get along. You just do what your leadership wants.

  Ted Cruz

  Simple, Want

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. July 18, 2016.

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• The Postman Always Rings Twice that's a book that I think every writer should read - that has to do with technique. But it's also a novel narrated by a guy who has decided by page 11 that he's fallen in love with a woman, and they're going to murder her husband so they can be together. There's nothing remotely likeable about him, but James M. Cain brings you so far into his head that, at a certain point, you have that uncomfortable but also thrilling sensation of seeing things exactly as he sees it.

  Jonathan Dee

  Husband, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Sometimes people try to give me advice going forward, and they say, "You know, you've just got to work to be more likeable in Washington." And I laugh and say, "You know this isn't rocket science.

  Ted Cruz

  People, Giving, Laughing

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. July 18, 2016.

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• Playing what Hollywood determines is a hero, it immediately sets actors up to feel like they just can't explore the dark parts of themselves - the character has to be likeable, has to be fuckable, has to be redemptive on all fronts. When you're playing a character that's just inherently destructive or messed up, you're given this beautiful permission to try things. There's a license to fail.

  Jordan Gavaris

  Beautiful, Hero, Character

  "Family Ties". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 13, 2016.

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• When you approach it, and I hate sounding like the pretentious actor, but yeah, I think you have to find things within the character that are likeable, or at least human, and not to go at it with any sort of predetermined notions as to what that character is.

  Steve Carell

  Hate, Character, Thinking

  "Steve Carell, Allison Janney Interview, The Way Way Back". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. July, 2013.

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• People, you know, had trouble with the character. Mindy is not immediately likeable. She does and says a lot of things that you don't see in, forget female characters, any characters. Like, she says things like, "I'm going to hell because I don't really care about the environment and I love to gossip."

  Mindy Kaling

  Character, People, Gossip

  "Mindy Kaling On Refusing To Be An Outsider And Sexism On Set". "Morning Edition" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. October 16, 2014.

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• Sometimes it's fun to explore ideas that might make people uncomfortable. If you let it, there's a lot of self-censoring that can go on in the name of remaining likeable, but I don't find that an artistically interesting path to take.

  Ted Alexandro

  Fun, Names, Ideas

  "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

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• A person riding a unicycle on a tightrope doesn't worry about being likeable; they're doing something amazing that very few people can do.

  Ted Alexandro

  People, Worry, Riding

  "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

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• You have to have faith that if you want people to like your brand, you have to do likeable things. There has to be some degree of trust that, if you're an enjoyable brand, people will want to spend time with you.

  Jeff Chapman

  Business, People, Degrees

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