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I always felt weird. I don't feel particularly likeable.
A party full of 'likeable' people doesn't bear contemplating.
Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
Most human beings are quite likable if you don't see too much of them.
It really takes likeable superstars to get the attention of the masses.
Most human beings are quite likeable if you do not see too much of them.
It's one thing to be this 'tough chick,' but you also have to be likeable.
There're two people in the world that are not likeable: a master and a slave.
Why Nicolas Sarkozy is the head of France, [he is] warm and extremely likeable.
Outside the ring, I'm not a mean guy. I'm a likeable guy. I'm reachable, to my people.
Chocolate is one of those flavors that's very likeable, very loveable, very versatile.
If we want users to like our software, we should design it to behave like a likeable person.
The vegan diet is obviously lacking whatever essential nutrient it is that makes people likeable.
Some people are inherently likeable. If you're not - work on it. It may even improve your social life.
Being really likeable all the time is just not real life, so it's your duty to make a well-rounded character.
There's something really freeing about playing a character that isn't even, like, remotely likeable whatsoever.
So we all want to be liked; I just don't always think I'm that likeable. I think my personality is really 50-50.
When you sign onto something, you want the character to be redeemable and likeable, hopefully, and understandable.
I don't try to be likeable. The worst thing people do is present versions of themselves to the world that aren't real.
We only see female protagonists who are likeable, with one cute flaw, such as adorable clumsiness. I'm fed up with it.
It is very simple to be likeable in Washington. You just go along to get along. You just do what your leadership wants.
My dad's so likeable, you wouldn't feel in competition with him. If any boyfriends have ever felt that, they're long gone.
As a young ma,n I was an absolute idiot. I think my exes would say I was a likeable baby. I had a teenager's bedroom when I was 32.
The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.
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.
You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.
If you think a candidate is electable and has the adeptness to be president, that's one thing. Elect him for these factors, not because he's likeable.
The most interesting characters keep us hooked. Not likeable ones! Iago, Shylock, Darth Vader - are they likeable? Do you want to invite them to dinner?
I was supposed to be authoritative, but at the same time had to be likeable, a quality that is a bonus, not a requirement, for men in the same position.
Gillard is as likeable as Rudd is charmless. She is self-deprecating; he is ludicrously vainglorious. She is a mistress of understatement; he is a ranter.
People lie in everyday conversation to appear more likeable and competent. While men and women lie equally as often, they tend to lie for different reasons.
Don't go around asking the question, 'Is this character likeable?' and expect that to be compatible with serious literary endeavours. That's not what it's about.
Leadership must be likeable, affable, cordial, and above all emotional. The fashion of authoritarian leadership is gone. Football is about life. You can't be angry all day.
It's the first villain that I've played in a movie that has absolutely no vulnerability and no innocence, nothing whatsoever that is likeable about her other than she's so bad.
When it comes right down to it, whatever business you're in, you're in the people business. After all, people prefer to do business with people and companies they find likeable.
Richard III is not likeable. Macbeth is not likeable. Hamlet is not likeable. And yet you can't take your eyes off them. I'm far more interested in that than I am in any sort of likeability.
It has been my experience that if we make the effort to listen to people when we meet them, and work to get to know them a little, it is then easy to find something likeable in practically anyone.
I've always liked people who know me to like me, because I think I'm quite likeable. But people who make up their minds based on the image in the papers or a voice on a pop record? They're idiots.
That was the most important thing to me: making sure 'Gardner Elliot' was likeable and funny and interesting. I took my time before filming to chat with Peter, the director, to create this character.
I always find it easier to portray myself as being unlikeable and idiotic; to actually play a character that is likeable and engages the audience is far more difficult. It's a more subtle kind of challenge.
I don't know if likeable, pleasant characters have enough conflict for me to want to do them. I admire those people, but I've never been that kind of screen presence who can do nothing. I need to do something.
I hope that what it comes down to at the end of the day is that people believe that I believe what I'm singing. It comes down to being believable. You don't have to be likeable; generally, though, I think I am.
In general, being likeable is more about being interested - rather than interesting. Indeed, a good way to convince someone that you are an awesome conversationalist is to simply shut up and let the other person talk.
You can't worry too much about what you think the audience wants to hear. You just have to hope that you're a likeable enough person that what you're saying will relate to other people, so they can laugh at it as well.
Rather than teach women how to negotiate with sexists or shrink themselves down to 'likeable' size, perhaps the solution would be for employers to stop being sexist. In the meantime, women will continue to be blamed for their lower salaries.
Some are in it for the money, which is fine. Some of them are in it to be a movie star; that's another reason. Some actors - and this I never understand - will only play likeable characters. And if they're not likeable, they change them to be heroic.
I was once told that I had become too confident and that it made me less likeable. Many successful people will get this at some point, because the people who haven't followed a similar path can be threatened by someone who has and is unabashed about it.
There's a horrible fallacy that exists in the popular discussion of fiction these days: the idea that a successful central character need be 'likeable' or 'sympathetic'. It is surely more important that they be human, no? More crucial that they breathe?
I've had great pleasure meeting the likes of Newt Gingrich and having a chat with the fellow on a staircase. I found him completely dishonest and totally likeable, because he doesn't care! He knows what a politician is, and he's a perfect embodiment of one.
I know I'm likeable, but living with me is different. Yes, I can be charming. That desire to please people and learning what to do to charm their socks off is something many of us do. But you get into a relationship, and the party's over at some point. They see the real you.