I’ve realised that I am who I am and that is it. Like it or lump it. I’m not around to please anyone any more, and it’s a huge relief.
I try not to read reviews. It’s hard not to hear what the critics are saying, but as an actor, I try not to let it in and to just give the best performances I can. At the end of the day, if you’re trying to please the critics, you’re missing what’s really important: being creative and having fun.
Explain to me, please, why in our literature and art so often people absolutely incompetent in this field have the final word.
I have the utmost respect for Charles Barkley. He was a heck of a ballplayer… When it comes to basketball, please quote Charles Barkley. But when it comes to race in America? Please don’t quote Charles Barkley.
I always say, when you’re onstage you can’t please everybody. I’m sure there are people who may not take to what I do, but that’s okay. Thank God the majority are in my corner.
I think that we have to do our job well, investigate thoroughly and then describe very honestly what we see to the Security Council. And some of the things might please people there and other things may not please the people.
We’re not trying to be everything for everybody. We’re not trying to please the masses.
Laughter does not please the mighty.
The blues comes right back to a person’s feelings, to his daily activities in life. But rich people don’t know nothing about the blues, please believe me.
When I was dealing with a lot of Iraqis, lies were constant; people constantly lied to you. It’s a part of their culture. They wanted to please you so much, they were willing to lie to you to please you.
So much is man the slave of his heart that he will shut his eyes to what does not please him and believe all that he hopes.
To our enemies all over the world who plan America’s demise, please take my advice. Give up now. No matter what, you will lose. You will lose it all.
If you want to avoid criticism, then you shouldn’t be a historian, because historians are trying to understand and explain. If you’re trying to please people, then you should go into the fashion business, or the candy business.
When you’re a performer, you have to please a large audience. And when you’re in politics, you have to please a large audience, too.
You can’t please all the people all the time.
I think I’d want to see the Hollywood sign, that’s for sure. I’ve never seen that yet. And oh, please, please, please, can I go to Disneyland?
Your brain is so lovely and so willing to please. It wants to help so much.
When I was younger, I used to just want to please everybody and not want to be an issue or not be considered a diva. I’ve just grown up and realized you have to look out for yourself and stick up for yourself, and there’s nothing wrong with that.
You can’t please everybody all the time, but you can please a majority.
I don’t type my sentences on an arena’s pitch, surrounded by thousands of cheering or booing fans – I don’t feel pressure to please a crowd.
As we depend upon our masters, for what we eat and drink and wear, and for all our comfortable things in this world, we cannot be happy, unless we please them.
I, of course, wanted to do something with Drew Barrymore. Please. So we were reading scripts back and forth and then we found this script, Fever Pitch.
For whoso dies for Christ, he is conqueror and is delivered from all misery and attains the eternal joy to which may it please our Saviour to bring us all.
Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
My mom would still be mad if I didn’t say ‘please’ and ‘thank you.’
I was at a banquet, and I went into the ladies’ room, and I’m in the stall doing my business, and a piece of paper and pen came from outside the door, and she says, ‘Ms. Wagner, would you please sign this for me?’ And I said, ‘Are you kidding me?’
If the powers that be really knew how much time I spent thinking about and researching celebrities, they probably wouldn’t let me anywhere near the red carpet. But, please promise not to tell them. I’m harmless, I swear.
If you ever need anything please don’t hesitate to ask someone else first.
The only thing that I don’t like is my kids watching comedy that isn’t actually funny. There’s a lot of supposed tween comedy on TV that isn’t particularly funny, but it’s got a lot of laugh track. And I go, ‘Please don’t watch that. Please just watch something that’s actually funny.’
If the response you finally receive from me is ‘thanks but no thanks’, then please accept at face value that I would really not be the right investor for you. You’ve got to trust me on this, and in this case take ‘no’ for an answer.
You can’t please everyone, and you can’t make everyone like you.
I don’t want to do things because it will please other people. I’m not doing this to get fame or any attention. I try to be selective about who I get advice from. I would like to contribute to the art world, but, you know, you can’t plan these things.
You’re under tremendous pressure, and everyone needs you to be perfect all the time, and that often creates a perverse incentive to not tell the truth. Please remember – when you get caught not telling the truth, it’s over.
When you’re in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There’s also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.
I think every artist would love to just please themselves musically all day long.
The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppress individuality. They wish to please the public.
I can’t write in a whole lot of different styles, trying to please the highbrows one time and the lowbrows the next. I pretty much have a basic style I employ.
Storytelling enables us to play out decisions before we make them, to plan routes before we take them, to work out the campaign before we start the war, to rehearse the phrases we’re going to use to please or placate our wives and husbands.
Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl.
When I go back to Texas, I travel the state, and I see people all the time who come up to me, men and women across Texas, and they grab me by the shoulder, and they’re afraid. They say, ‘Ted, you know, I just lost my health insurance. I got a child with diabetes. I’m scared. Please stop this from happening.’
As a candidate, Obama projected himself as a new Reagan, above narrow party politics. He wanted to please all but has ended up annoying many.
I know electric knives are excellent for carving turkeys that have had their bones removed and been forced into a mold to shape them. Please note that those turkeys are called hams.
I don’t ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.
Conservatives, please. Let’s not duplicate the manias of the Left as we figure out how to deal with Mr. Obama. He is not exactly the anti-Christ, although a disturbing number of people on the Right are convinced he is.
The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.
Barbies, nails, and fashion – I’ll take everything in baby pink, please.
Paddington Bear was a refugee with a label – ‘Please look after this bear. Thank you’, and he had a little suitcase.
Taking the time to polish a pun or fine-tune a practical joke is a way of saying, ‘I’m thinking about you and I want to please you.’
We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.
If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.
You can’t please everyone. There’s always going to be someone disappointed, so you might as well make yourself happy and Be You.
After over 50 years of headlining, I’ve been received very beautifully. But I always say, when you’re onstage, you can’t please everybody. I’m sure there are people who may not take to what I do, but that’s OK.
Nobody should force you to do a bad piece of work in your whole life – no client, no creative director, nobody. The job isn’t to please the client; the job is to produce something for the client that makes them incredibly successful.
I pushed the process forward by saying, ‘We should do this, this, and this right now. Please find the budget for me to find a structural engineer, a mechanical engineer, a civil engineer, so we can do the preliminary work.’
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.
You can’t live your life trying to please people. You be courteous and you be respectful, but you’ve got to do things in the way that you want to do them.
I have always been a flirt. My mother says whe I was a child, I used to stand outside the house and just smile at everyone who walked by. Like, ‘Please take me with you!’
It’s our money, and we’re free to spend it any way we please.
When you retire, it’s a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don’t quit work; you develop an attitude where you can do what you please.
America was first colonized by Puritans. Most of our earliest immigrants, and many since, have come here in order to practice their religious beliefs as they please. Our culture has always been, and will most likely always be, profoundly influenced by religion.
