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We can always make ourselves liked provided we act likable, but we cannot always make ourselves esteemed, no matter what our merits are.
— Nicolas Malebranche
I've always tried to be fair to my subjects. That's easy when they are as likable and admirable as Lewis and Clark, or Eisenhower.
— Stephen Ambrose
We have hated the French for years. Now you have just joined the club. It makes you much more likable.
— Simon Cowell
A lot of the stuff I have done had been not only the likable guy, but like the nice likable guy.
— Ron Livingston
It is better to be likable than to be talented.
— Utah Phillips
I've played parts that were just likable people, and there's a certain pleasure in that. And that's that.
— Annette Bening
It's not that you aren't likable. On the contrary. You are. It's just that one wonders if you haven't made a career out of being so likable.
— Jerzy Kosinski
If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
It's hard not to like Asimov; he's a really likable guy.
— Cory Doctorow
I'm known for playing bad guys, so this was an interesting departure from what I'm known to play, which is a softer, more likable, affable character.
— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
It amazes me, Saint, that you can own so few redeemable qualities and still be so likable.
— Suzanne Enoch
Intent matters. If you believe you're charmed, capable, likable, popular, then you are.
— Brenna Yovanoff
People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Our biggest struggle as human beings is to project ourselves as something that society has deemed admirable or likable instead of being honest.
— Matthew Shultz
was also witty and likable, intelligent
— Kathleen Baldwin
I thought it was time for a tough, smart, likable female private investigator, and that's how VI came to life.
— Sara Paretsky
When you smile, you don't only appear to be more likable and courteous, you appear to be more competent.
— Ron Gutman
I don't worry about whether a character is likable, as long as the character is believable.
— Matt Dillon
Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.
— Balthazar Getty
Truffle isn't exactly aphrodisiac but under certain circumstances it tends to make women more tender and men more likable
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Pete Rose is the most likable arrogant person I've ever met.
— Mike Schmidt
When you start to prioritize hiring likable people within your organization, these likable people will attract other likable people.
— Karen Salmansohn
The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him.
— Joseph Heller
It's a character that I always found really likable. I'm fond of Zorro because he was a popular figure who worked for the people.
— Antonio Banderas
If you can make a character likable that's not very nice, that's the challenge of the job.
— Zooey Deschanel
Bill Maher does something amazing in Religulous. He makes Michael Moore look incredibly likable in comparison.
— Mick LaSalle
I do want to play characters that have redeeming qualities, that are likable, for sure, and I have in the past, and I will again.
— Pablo Schreiber
That occurs everywhere, unfortunately. Powerful, smart women who make it to the end sometimes are not seen as the same charismatic likable guys.
— Allison Grodner
The wide world is full of likable people who get kicked in the stomach regularly.
— John D. MacDonald
People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.
— Daniel Clowes
I often play women who are not essentially good or likable, and I often go through a stage where I hate them. Then I end up loving and defending them.
— Kathleen Turner
You're likable enough, Hillary.
— Barack Obama
The goal of leadership is not to be likable or loved but to be proven trustworthy and respected.
— Miles Anthony Smith
I don't mind playing somebody who's not likable, or makes the audience feel slightly conflicted.
— James McAvoy
Writers are only rarely likable.
— Joan Didion
Palin is smart, politically skilled, courageous and likable. Her convention and debate performances were impressive.
— David Brooks
The more likable he is, the more deadly he is.
— Suzanne Collins
There are likable characters in prison. Sometimes the worst criminals are also some of the most charming people.
— Taryn Manning
A child owes respect to a parent, but there is no natural obligation to like a parent - unless the parent makes himself likable as a person.
— Sydney J. Harris
Love is the most likable, invisible fashion of life that you can wear with passion.
— Debasish Mridha
I want to say It's okay to be a person. We're all afraid. We all get hurt. It's okay to hurt. You'd be so much more likable if you just acted human.
— Jennifer Niven
So it was good for me to play a likable person and it was just an amazing situation to be in.
— Kristin Davis
Most human beings are quite likable if you don't see too much of them.
— Robert Wilson Lynd
I think I've made a career out of making despicable people likable.
— Walton Goggins