I haven’t grown since I was 13, and every girl cast opposite me isn’t allowed to wear heels on camera, for fear that I would look minuscule. In all of the casting calls for my best friends on every project, it says in big, bold, red letters: ‘Please no high heels.’ It’s a little embarrassing.
I like to come and go as I please which means I’m not anxious to dash back from the studio to fix dinner for a man.
All Oprah needs is a good book. My only request when she’s building any house is, ‘Could I please have a TV in my bedroom?’
I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure – which is: Try to please everybody.
I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
I don’t really care what the man on the street thinks. I never did anything to please him in the first place, and I’m not going to start now.
When I received the news of the Nobel Peace Award, I could not believe it. I told my father, ‘I think they have the wrong name, Dad. Please, can you talk to this man on the phone? I’m busy cooking!’
I read a lot of comics growing up. My mom used to say, ‘Would you please read a book?’ She was worried where I was going in my life.
I really like to please people, and I think it’s a symptom of being an only child.
That really has been my message over the years: ‘Hey, we’re all in this together, so let’s laugh about it a little, please.’ It adds perspective to an argument if you know where you’re coming from.
If you’re an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don’t prevent your children from learning about it and letting them draw their own conclusions.
I need to find a church on Sunday. I need to say ‘please’ and ‘thank you,’ ‘yes sir’ and ‘no ma’am.’ Do the little things because that’s part of being an adult.
Righteousness has to do with the vertical standard that God gives us to please Him. Justice has to do with the horizontal expression of that righteous standard in the lives of others.
Please take the time to leave something kind, or don’t leave it at all. You know? That’s an option, also.
I’m so focused on trying to craft the story that I’m in my own little world with it and that process. The one reader I’m trying to please as I write is me, and I’m pretty difficult to please.
I see a lot of actors that are doing things to please their coaches, their teachers in the past. They say ‘No’ to parts they should have said ‘Yes’ to simply because of the opinion of people in their past. I have no one in my past who is judging me and saying, ‘Maybe you shouldn’t do that.’ I’ll do it all.
Every time I start chasing my tail, and I’m trying to control all these elements of my universe, I pray, ‘I’m not in control of any of this. I can just do the best I can. Please guide me. Please help me figure how I can move through this in the way You would have me.’
You know, you don’t please everybody.
On a more practical level, anyone out there who wants to be a writer should clearly recognize that this is a brutal business, where even incredibly talented people sometimes never make a living. If you want to chase such a dream, please have a Plan B in place.
I like having the dough to come and go as I please.
You can’t please everybody. You’d be crazy if you’re trying to. So take some time out to do some things for yourself.
I was waiting for a train at Waverley Station in Edinburgh. My knee was hurting, so I asked a young man for his seat. He replied, ‘There’s one over there’. I said, ‘Please’, and when he refused I poured my water over him.
I think there’s so many points of view that you want to make sure your stories are being told from men and women… you get all of the different backgrounds. You don’t want every story being told from the same point of view. So just for better storytelling, I’m like, ‘Yes, please, bring some more ladies on.’
Rajini sir gave me an opportunity to work with him because he liked my work, especially my style of narration and dialogues. Now, I can’t go out and make something very different just to please him. He wanted me to make ‘Petta’ the way I want it and with my sensibilities intact.
When Priyanka Chopra makes a mark for herself internationally, we claim her achievements as our own and then threaten to ban her films and make her apologize for a work of fiction that has been created by someone else. Can we please attempt to be larger than that?
Not taboo – it’s just that straight actors still risk their careers commercially and economically. They have to please the crowd – they’re movie stars; their image is their industry. It goes beyond acting.
Look, you know, you can’t please everybody. I’m a stand-up comic. I know that. It doesn’t matter how funny you are and how well you do, there’s two people that are going to walk out of there hating you.
I try to forget about the expectation that’s out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I’m not trying to please them. I’ve spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.
You can’t please people who don’t really know you and, you know, I do think that one of the things I do want to do is please the people who matter to me and please the people that do know me.
I’m always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don’t want to face the truth.
Globalisation means many other countries are asserting themselves and trying to take over leadership. Please don’t ask Americans to let others assume the leadership of human exploration. We can do wonderful science on the Moon, and wonderful commercial things. Then we can pack up and move on to Mars.
Why don’t women have respect for themselves nowadays? What happen to the woman who learned her grandmama’s recipes and made her man sweet potato pie? I tell you, they don’t make ’em like they used to. Will my real women stand up, please?
Too many people try to please their parents. My parents were Republicans, which is too bad, but they allowed me to be who I wanted to be.
I used to cold call labels and pretend I was one of their artist’s attorneys. I’d say, ‘This is Jay-Z’s attorney, we need to speak with Craig Kallman,’ you know, owner of Atlantic, and they’d say, ‘Right away,’ and then I’d be like, ‘Please just listen to my demo tape!’
I went to college as an economics major because that was the easiest major that could still please your Asian parents, and then, much to their dismay, I became a stand-up comedian.
We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.
I didn’t go on a campaign of developers asking, ‘Please give me money.’
Please don’t hate me because I’m beautiful.
Guys are so easygoing and girls are a little harder to please, but that’s okay.
The core spirit of Pleats Please is joy, and what better emotion to wear on your skin every day?
No matter who we are, God does not adapt to please us; we always have to adapt to him.
May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.
As a person, I’m polite – I want to please.
Please stop teaching my children that everyone gets a trophy just for participating. What is this, the Nobel Prize? Not everybody gets a trophy.
I don’t make records that way, where I’m trying to please the marketplace or anything. Not because I have anything against that, it’s just never been a part of my aesthetic, even when I was with the Pixies.
We’re never going to please everyone, but all the great Jewish comics have succeeded through irreverence and self deprecation.
One day, we had a layoff at my job. And I went to my boss, and I said, ‘Please save someone else’s job. This is a win-win situation for the company and me – and just lay me off.’ I did that in around 2003, and I never looked back. I became a full-time comic.
If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people’s expectations, then you can go mad.
When you realize who you live for, and who’s important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I’m gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it – and I lived it for me.
Students follow rules. Students complete assignments. The job of students – in part, at least – is to please their teachers. Now, I realize I may be exaggerating a little here, but basically I think I’m right: students do what they’re told.
I don’t do any art to please any people.
It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects.
I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop the vivacity of his mind, and please do not forget to meditate upon the subject of our discussion.
I went to Jersey City State College to please a family member. I wasn’t prepared for school. To say I failed out is putting it nicely.
I used to have the mindset of worrying about everybody else’s opinions, trying to please everybody, but that’s not going to happen.
I studied with Strasberg, Elia Kazan. They raised the bar. They weren’t easy to please, and they made you achieve the best you could do. That’s what a teacher does: he infuses you with passion for something.
