Admire Quote by Sally Rooney

The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it because I think I have a weird barometer…

— Damien Chazelle

I think the most appealing characters for the audience are the ones that you never know whether to root for them or whether to…

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

Any actor is happy to be involved with something that's challenging, controversial, and not easily palatable. Things that are too dumbed down or easy…

— Adam Driver

You know, the hard thing about audiences not liking what a character does is that they sometimes take it out on the actor personally.…

— Linda Cardellini

I think a lot of actors are overly concerned about being well liked in the parts they play.

— Molly Parker

You know that's why people don't like unlikeable characters. It's not that they're not interesting. Everybody knows the most interesting character in a book…

— Ottessa Moshfegh

In terms of likeability, that's something that I don't think about as an actor when I approach a role.

— David Duchovny

I think most actors like to be liked.

— Anjelica Huston

I always find it easier to portray myself as being unlikeable and idiotic; to actually play a character that is likeable and engages the…

— Steve Coogan

Impressionable audiences should be seeing characters that are properly fleshed out.

— Percelle Ascott

Often times, if a character is pretty straightforward, he or she is not as interesting to portray.

— Jonathan Jackson

For me, portraying a character is not about liking or disliking it; it's about meeting a challenge that's thrown at you.

— Manoj Bajpayee