Quotes About Individuality

Characters don't belong to anyone, not even the person who plays them.

You are the plays you write. How on earth could you write them otherwise? They're projections of your own predilections.

In my mind, the plays I was writing were extreme examples of art for art's sake. I didn't necessarily think that other people would love them, though I thought they probably would.

My way of playing is very different and Karpov plays very differently as well.

There are so many factors that one needs to keep in mind while composing for a film. Every movie is different and demands a separate approach. Originality also plays an important role.

Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

I'm not saying that Sam J. Jones was Flash Gordon - there's no such thing. No actor can be the person, that's a bunch of crap. People pay to see an actor be himself, whether he plays Hamlet or whatever.

I'm a personality - like a George Plimpton who effectively plays himself in a bunch of different roles, or a Paul Lynde-type character.

When I look at me, I think I'm a good catch. Why wouldn't somebody like me for me? I'm a pleasant person. I'm an intelligent person. I'm a good person. I'm not bad looking. Why wouldn't I be able to get somebody to like me?

I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.

Please don't compare me to the best player of all time. Let me do my own thing.

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.

The day that I ever become hip... please shoot me and put me outta my misery!

You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.

You're never going to please 100 percent of women.

If you are writing comedy and try to please everybody, you'll please nobody.

All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.

I will wear makeup because I want to look good for myself, but it's not to please other people. It's not so I fit in with the pretty girls or to impress guys.

You cannot please everybody. You keep marching forward.

I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.

There is a great demand everywhere in the world for individual mobility. People like the fact they are not on somebody else's schedule. They can come and go as they 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.

One thing I learned in the military is we fight for everybody's rights to say and do as they please, so everybody is free to make their choices.

All any artist can do is please themselves.