Top 599 Please Quotes

Please believe that I do this because I am convinced that my illness cannot be helped for any length of time and I cannot bear to be a burden on anyone any longer.

It’s good to please the network, but you really just have to tell the stories you want to tell, and if you try to please other people, it ends up starting to water stuff down. Those decisions we have to make are hard, but we usually just err on the side of ‘What would we want to see?’

As a filmmaker, you have to understand the essence of the book and tell the story you want to see on the screen, and hopefully please yourself – because you can’t possibly please everyone.

To you people out there, you producers and you network owners and you agents and you creative sparks, please give transgender talent a chance. Give them auditions. Give them their story. Do that.

I wanted to be a good kid, and I wanted to please my parents.

America is full of readers of all different sorts who love books in many different ways, and I keep meeting them. And I think editors should look after them, and make less effort to please people who don’t actually like books.

I like basketball, but please don’t ask me basketball questions because I’ve got a lot to learn.

Being in the spotlight, you’re always picked apart. It’s not easy. But over time I’ve realized that you can’t please everyone and when you feel overwhelmed, just take a step back. Love yourself first.

The people at Columbia Pictures have been great, but I had to tell them, ‘Please don’t be nice to me. Just pay me.’

I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.

I took a lot of bad things after Athens. I just learnt to deal with it. The problem was beforehand I had this feeling where I was trying to please everybody – I wanted everybody to like me.

My job as an entertainer is to take you some place else. I love exploring different genres of music to please my fans.

You don’t want to let people down, and that’s so hard because you’re never going to please everybody. There’s always going to be someone that’s a naysayer.

I try to please everyone.

I still have five years to the end of my term. There are many candidates. There’ll be a problem if it’s supposed to be a European or someone from the emerging countries, the so-called BRICS. This will be decided, but please don’t think Poland has anything to say about it.

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

A little before my 10th birthday, I was like, ‘Can I please have a puppet, Mom and Dad?’ They were like, ‘No. You are a singer, not a ventriloquist. You have three brothers, and you’re in gymnastics. There’s no way we have time for this.’

People have got their opinions, and you can’t please everyone.

You can build a place that is beautiful, but nobody feels comfortable sitting in it, and the kids aren’t allowed to go into many of the rooms. Or a place can look lived in, but it doesn’t please the eye.

You call to a dog and a dog will break its neck to get to you. Dogs just want to please. Call to a cat and its attitude is, ‘What’s in it for me?’

You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.

Join a Bikram-flow-yoga, Flywheel, or Pilates class so you can find spiritual oneness amid grunting socialite moms. Do whatever you want. Just, please, for the love of God, stop talking about it.

There’s a stage where you’re desperate to get a job, and you’re waving your hands in a sea of nothingness, going, ‘Please, please, please! I’m over here – give me a job!’

Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.

I’m very selfish. I make music that I love because I only live once, and I’m an artist. I don’t try to revolt against anybody, and I don’t try to please anybody. I feel very strongly that I if love it, someone else will love it – not everybody, though.

I’ve learnt so much over time and with the experience that I’ve gained. You can’t please everyone.

Know your worth and please don’t invest in toxic people or relationships, because any bond that requires servicing is not worth your time.

How does a queen bee behave? However she wants to. But please don’t wait for someone to hold the door open for you when your own arms work perfectly fine – do it yourself.

I’m a Roman Catholic. Or was. I was brought up that way and used to say my prayers every night, but I don’t pray to God any more. I might use the usual phrases I picked up from my parents, ‘Oh, if God spares me next year…’ or ‘Please God…’ but they’re only phrases.

I’m not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you’re ninety?

I don’t think that independent or off-beat films are not commercial, nor do I want to categorise them. At the end of the day, what matters is how much you compromise to please the masses. But, I am not someone who loves compromising. If there’s a lot to give up on things that matter to me, I start losing interest.

I remember I was up for the role of Jim in ‘Huck Finn,’ and because I went to Harvard and Yale, they didn’t think I would be able to play a slave. I said, ‘Oh, please.’ I had to go in there and prove to them that I wasn’t too intelligent to play a slave.

TIVO executives stand up and say, ‘Well, we’re not getting rid of commercials, but we are letting them fast forward, because people like commercials, and if they see one that they like they stop and watch it.’ I mean, please.

I went to, you know, a church in Chicago, and my mom, of course, was in the choir because my mom was a singer; she used to sing. I wanted to be in the choir as well, and I was like, ‘Mom, please, you know, I want to sing in the choir with you guys.’ I kept on asking her, and finally I was, you know, in the choir.

Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

You’re never going to please everyone, and if you do, there’s something wrong.

My mother, she didn’t believe in praise. She’d never say anything was great. I think that’s quite Northern, to not make people feel too good. I didn’t mind if she was proud of me or not, it didn’t bother me. I was never trying to please her.

I wonder if those people shown protesting the deployment of nuclear weapons to western Europe during the Reagan era are feeling appropriately stupid today. ‘Please don’t take away our precious Soviet Union! – We demand the annihilation of all life on Earth!’

You can’t make everyone happy no matter what. All I can do is live my life and try to be successful and please myself.

I’m very much a people-pleaser, and with a book out, I had to learn that you can’t please everybody with your book.

If you want to stand with me as a single mom – and I know so many of my friends and colleagues do – please don’t appropriate my burden as a way to validate your own. To suggest that you are single-parenting when you are simply solo for the weekend devalues what real single mothers do.

As a teen-ager I was constantly trying to please people, which I guess is true of all adolescents.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‘Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

Everybody that listens to something hears it differently from their own perspective. And you can’t please everyone. Don’t even try. Please yourself first and then try to please those people around you that you feel know what you’re doing.

Dearest TV media and vans outside my home, please do not stress and work so hard.

I think an actor’s process should be very personal and private, and sometimes I have thought, ‘Oh, please, put it away now.’

Please do not ask me to talk about my divorce. Mr. Ziegfeld and I are such very good friends. It is only a little matter quite between ourselves.

Genetic Denim gods, if you’re listening, please don’t rip, and if you have to, maybe you could have an elf from your warehouse send me another pair… I’m a size 28 and its called ‘The Twig’ in a dark grayish wash… I will wear them until I die, unless those rips beat me to it.

From now on, we want to put on even cooler performances, be cooler, be better, so look forward to it. Please, always look forward to it.

I believe in the institution of marriage, but one can’t fix a time for it. Please don’t predict it for me.

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

I’m very please to have Unai Emery as my coach. I’m convinced I’ll be able to make progress under him by working hard, which is the most important thing for me.

If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.

I’m looking forward to providing the men of Seattle with an evening where they can kick back, light up a cigar and enjoy a night to themselves. Women, we can’t technically keep you out, but please stay at home.