Likable Quotes

There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians.

It's hard not to like Asimov; he's a really likable guy.

It's a funny show. The characters are surprisingly likable, given how ugly they are. We've got this huge cast of characters that we can move around. And over the last few seasons, we've explored some of the secondary characters' personal lives a bit more.

I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable.

There are so few strong roles for women, especially young women. And Veronica is very serious but also very likable. She's a lone wolf, and it appeals to people that she isn't rich and doesn't have a lot of friends. No posse. She's just like you, like most of us.

Although Ronald Reagan was somebody I disagreed with on most ideological things, he was a friend of mine, and he was a very, very likable man. Ronald Reagan, for instance, was maybe more able to get the very rich to do the right thing sometimes.

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.

People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.

Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.

Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive.

So it was good for me to play a likable person and it was just an amazing situation to be in.

I would hope that people didn't think I was anything like Joan! It's very hard for me because Joan says such cruel things all the time. It sort of makes me cringe every time I read them because I think, 'Who could be so horrible?' To be able to deliver those lines and do them with a coolness, yet still make her likable, is a bit of a challenge.

We have hated the French for years. Now you have just joined the club. It makes you much more likable.

A lot of the stuff I have done had been not only the likable guy, but like the nice likable guy.

Pete Rose is the most likable arrogant person I've ever met.

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.

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.

I thought it was time for a tough, smart, likable female private investigator, and that's how VI came to life.

In order to appeal to a wider audience on network in order to survive, generally your characters need to be, at a base level, a little bit more likable.