I’m really excited that ‘The Other Woman’ did so well at the box office, and I hope that will keep encouraging people to make movies about women, starring women, about female friendships. More. Please.
As girls grow up and download what it means to be a culturally acceptable ‘good girl,’ they learn to please others at the expense of themselves. They worry about protecting relationships – and what people think of them – at all costs.
Please don’t quote me.
Oh, filmmakers, please don’t take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft.
I always say please live a simple life in the city so that we can lead a simple life in the mountains.
You’re always going to feel like you’re catching up, and part of that is just balancing work and motherhood and the whole feeling of needing to please, which I do think girls and women feel more than men.
I intend to buy ‘The New York Times.’ Please don’t take it as a joke.
I’m not ever going to retire. That’s – that wouldn’t be good, for one, just to go somewhere and sit down and do nothing. Please. No, that’s not moi.
I get very irate with actors when they talk about how distressing it all is. I mean, it’s only acting. Please.
There is much to life than fame and fortune. If you are a part of the entertainment industry, please remember it is all temporary.
Give me the flash lights, the red carpets, and all that goes with it. Please! Oh, and I love hoardings. I love them. Nothing makes me happier than my face splashed all over the city.
I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.
You can’t please everyone. You’re not an avocado. Not everyone’s going to love you.
If faux liberal white guys want to support and defend Obama, by all means please do so. But I would suggest they try to limit that support to matters of policy and not perspectives on race.
As every teenage girl, I was absolutely obsessed with The Beatles, and the first record I bought was ‘Please Please Me.’ I’d have been 13 at the time.
In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
The moment you say, ‘Please, give me a reason for this’, then you are being impossible and temperamental.
I’ll give the director what he wants, but please explain the requirement. If it reaches me, then there’s communication.
Please be nice, be kind to stray animals, dogs, and adopt them.
I was spoiled growing up. My dad would really spoil us. He would bring us to high-end stores and ask us to please try on those clothes. He’d make us try on all the pretty clothes, modeling like that… He liked dressing us up, my dad and my mom they loved dressing up.
And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can’t just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it’s much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.
The best boxers don’t always qualify for the Olympics. You can easily have a bad day, but please God, that won’t happen to me.
Please understand that I make music to express myself, and if you know anything about me, you know that I’m nothing but honest.
Please let me assure you, however, that the keen disappointment and regret which I feel in this regard serve only to enhance my profound appreciation of the great honor which you have done me; and my sincere gratitude for your generous action.
You just have to trust your instincts and hope that if someone doesn’t like your idea, you can prove them wrong in the final process. In the end, you can please some of the people some of the time, but that’s about all you can do.
I have one rule when adapting any text: nothing gets added; all the words are the original author’s own. But in the ordering and recreation of the story, I can do as I please, and to me, the heart and the point of ‘Dracula’ is appetite.
What I try to do is live with myself and please me. If I can’t do that, I can’t please anybody else or live with anybody else.
If I was on the air and was just kind of a plain-vanilla personality that took the safe road and the safe way trying to please all of the people all of the time, I’d been gone in two weeks.
I’m a big fan of huge populations of people, so you’d think with 300 million people in the country, you don’t even have to please 1% to be phenomenally successful.
I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.
The happy medium – truth in all things – is no longer either known or valued; to gain applause, one must write things so inane that they might be played on barrel-organs, or so unintelligible that no rational being can comprehend them, though on that very account, they are likely to please.
Many women my age have known the experience of giving up crucial parts of themselves to please the man they love.
I was raised to please people in authority, and I’d also come from a sheltered boarding school, so I was very naive and young for my years.
While staging demonstrations against wrongs, please do not cross the line, and see to it that no situation is allowed to turn into a riot.
I did some glamorous roles and even wore a bikini in the Telugu film ‘Drona,’ but the audience was aghast. Some said, ‘Please don’t ever wear a bikini again!’
Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that ‘Oryx and Crake’ is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it’s neutral.
The younger me was motivated by a need to please others, by the pressure to climb the corporate ladder and make money, and by a fear of failure – all of which became more and more intense as I navigated the competitive landscape.
Such is the endless dilemma of dialect. Not every reader will ever agree with the way that I handle it, no matter how hard I work to keep everything readable. But again it’s that balance I have to maintain between keeping it easy and keeping it real, and I know that I’ll never please everyone.
I had a mother I could only seem to please with verbal accomplishments of some sort or another. She read constantly, so I read constantly. If I used words that might have seemed surprising at a young age, she would recognize that and it would please her.
Please don’t stick with me if I start sucking.
Please remember that as you become a more extraordinary human being, every element of your outer world must change accordingly. Just has to. So the more remarkable you become, the more remarkable will be the professional and personal life you’ll create.
How can I go on with this? Please God, let me win a football pool.
Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.
I never called him Prince because I wanted him to be a person to me, not the man behind ‘Purple Rain’. Plus, technically, I was married to the Symbol… When we got married, it was much easier. If someone else was there, I could say, ‘Could I speak to my husband, please?’
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
If you love animals, please don’t eat them.
I don’t know the names of any pop musicians. Pop music is standardised; it’s made to please the largest audience possible. I also compose to please a large audience, but when you listen to my music, you understand that I have studied and applied the whole history of composition.
People are lying when they say that their record being broken is good for the development of the event. I would like mine to remain as long as possible, please.
My father played five years for Valence in France’s second division. I’d always cry when he would leave for training. Every morning, I’d say, ‘Dad, take me with you. Please, please take me with you!’
As I have traveled throughout my Congressional district, the one thing I heard loud and clear was simply please stop spending money you do not have, rein in spending, live within a budget.
Real Madrid demands the maximum. You have to win and please.
I think if there’s something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn’t have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please – not that it’s not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for.
Please, please stop saying that Ukraine is a corrupt country, because from now, it’s not true. We want to change this image.
Selectors can’t please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It’s an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.
People come up to me in airports, they walk into the office, and they say, ‘I’m going to cry; I’m going to pass out.’ And I say, ‘Please don’t pass out; I’m not a doctor.’
Because my man is handsome and successful, that makes me a gold digger? First of all, I pay my own bills, and I still pay my own bills. But if your man is gonna give you a gift, you’re gonna accept it. I’m not gonna be like, ‘No, can you please take back the Louis Vuitton purse?’ Absolutely not.
