I have no interest in being wrong, so if I am, please correct me. I don’t want to be wrong. There’s nothing in it for you or for me to be wrong.
I remember making ‘Mr. Show,’ thinking, ‘Man this stuff is really funny to me.’ I don’t know if anyone else will love it, but I know I’m going to still watch it in 15 years if I’m still alive and laugh really hard. Even though we had very high standards, we were trying to excite and please ourselves.
I’m not trying to please everybody. I’m just trying to play for one team and do it the right way.
I don’t have to do things just to please people. It’s okay to do what I love because what I love, my fans love. And they’re really the only ones that should matter.
I’ve realized I’m not going to please everyone; not everyone’s going to love me.
What I will say will not always please you, but what I say will always be honest and true and how I genuinely see it.
I’ve attended many concerts where I felt let down and I was wishing it would be something else. Not that it’s their duty to please me, but at the same time, I think a lot about what it’s like through the eyes of the consumer, the fan. I want not to pander to the audience, but to be aware of them.
The Miss America Pageant reinforces a belief that women are merely how they look and how they please.
‘They’ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‘they.’ You might have a personal ‘they.’ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‘they.’
I hope they get something of interest out of it, but I’d rather they all hate it and I like it, instead of vice versa… I make films to please myself first, and if the audience likes them, all the better.
Believe me when I say this: you can’t please everyone in concert, even though I still want to. Someone always wants you to sing a song that isn’t necessarily on your set list.
If you really want a radio station to play your song, go to that radio station every day with that song in your hand and say, ‘Please play it.’
Christian Louboutin, I love you, but honey, please! But when you have this much weight, you’ve got to give us a little platform. Sorry! The shoes are stunning though. An ounce of pain, it’s worth it.
It’s easier to get into controlling relationships when you’re young because you’re much more eager to please, and controlling men pick up on that. If they like to make decisions for you at the start of a relationship, it can be a warning sign.
I can’t help other people’s frustrations. I don’t owe people anything. If people would like to come to my concerts, I’d love them to come. And if they like the music that I make, I love that, too. But I do not make music for other people. I make it to please myself.
When you do comedy, you can’t please the world, although I’d like to think that most of my audiences were on my side.
Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.
What you learn is that you can’t please everyone all the time.
You’re never able to please everybody, especially when you’re transforming a country like Russia.
I’m free to leave… go wherever I please, do whatever I want; I believe everyone should live like that. Don’t be dependent on anyone else – man, woman, child, or dog.
Filter from your tap, and if you do occasionally buy the bottles, please recycle.
You name it – it is something every day from the Environmental Protection Agency, and every group I talk to is the same message: ‘Please stop them. Please stop.’
I would never do an album with 10 songs like ‘Jump Start’ on it. I’ll only go so far to please fans.
It’s easier to aim to please and say what others want to hear than to form an opinion and fight for it, even if it means taking a risk or losing your job.
The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
I think people who don’t have conflict in their lives are just trying to please people and not really living life to the fullest.
I’m enough of a southeast Texas boy – there’s enough white trash in my blood that when somebody gives me money to make a record, I feel like I have to please them instead of myself.
I like to be able to come and go as I please, and I don’t really like having my face and name plastered around. I think it’s a bit weird to have your name plastered on every page in a magazine, where in each case you’re using a different piece of equipment.
Every time I write a book, I think how I could be doing it better to please people – a nicer book with nicer characters – but I just can’t.
My father thought Gandhi was a great man. I suppose subconsciously, consciously even, I was aware that I wanted to please him and Ma, so I thought doing something like ‘Gandhi’ would be phenomenal.
If you enjoy and become a fan of Tony Rock, I really appreciate it! But, I do my comedy for me, so I don’t try and please everyone or appease anyone. In the end, it’s for me.
Mainly, I don’t like it when music is made solely to impress people or in order to please business people; it doesn’t sound good to me. If you’re making music in order to become famous or loved by the masses… that’s not what I’m about. When somebody’s making music for the wrong reasons, I hear it right away.
Please God, I’ll never be in a war zone, but everything I sort of know about people who come back is that it’s a hard transition to make. I mean, even if you’ve not been in a war, even if you’ve just been in the Forces, you come back and probably have more fights in civilian life.
Whatever culture, whatever country, girls are taught to please others as opposed to pleasing themselves.
The goal of listening to customers is not to please every one of them. It’s to figure out which customer segments serve your needs – both short and long term.
I suppose if I went to Turkey – I mean, I can’t imagine going that far away, but if I did go to Turkey, yes, I would probably try to know ‘please’ and ‘sorry’ and ‘thank you’, and ‘a beer please’, and all the useful words.
If I like it, it’s gonna be on my album. You can’t please everyone.
You’ve got the armor and everything on, and you think, ‘This is going to be great.’ Then they give you a sword, and you think, ‘Ah, it’s not too bad.’ And after 10 minutes you’re thinking, ‘Please, I can’t be doing this all day.’ I mean, I really don’t know how people sustained themselves in real battles.
Whatever it is your heart desires, please go for it, it’s yours to have.
‘Inherent Vice’ was a novel that already existed, and in ‘Steve Jobs,’ I was playing a real person; in those situations, you do feel an added pressure to please.
What does it serve any studio to not reflect the lives of people who are giving you money, who are crying out to you, ‘Hey, please tell our stories.’
Please, please, please, my dear competition. We can beat each other and fight each other as much as we want and argue, but do not predict how a system really works when you really don’t know and don’t want to know. Either be better informed, or don’t do it.
Now that I’m a wiser, older human, when I do photo shoots, I specifically say, ‘Please do not airbrush my moles out.’ Because they will do it, to make you homogenized.
I was meant to be a composer and will be I’m sure. Don’t ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football – please.
People will say, ‘Just one picture please.’ That is how it starts. There is just one picture and then somebody else wants another. And when I say ‘No’ I feel guilty.
There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please, that is, as they please or displease us.
As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director.
The main reason he wanted to be a recording artist was because it gives you much more freedom in your writing. You only have to please the artist and the artist is you so you can be more daring and experimental.
I phoned this number and said, Please, sir, I want to be an actor.
The old problems – love, money, security, status, health, etc. – are still here to plague us or please us.
If you’re going to perform, you’re going to attract criticism. You can’t please everyone all the time. You don’t know how things are going to come out. But that’s part of the fun of it, the adventure of doing any kind of art.
If it pleases you and you can write at all, it’s gonna please somebody else.
The one reader I’m trying to please as I write is me, and I’m pretty difficult to please.
You can’t please all of the people all of the time; you can only please some of the people some of the time.
We have women working in the foundries, stripped to the waist, if you please, because of the heat.
If you go about trying to please everyone, there’s going to be endless struggles.
Trying to please so many people can definitely cause a lot of stress.
