Quotes About Pleasing

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.

I was very keen. I was super-eager to please and be good. And I was always kind of bossy.

As a child, all I knew was that people kept asking me to sing, and because I liked to please, I would sing. It wasn't until my dad told me that my singing made him happy that I began to think my voice might be good.

You can't please all of the people all of the time; you can only please some of the people some of the time.

It's good to please the network, but you really just have to tell the stories you want to tell, and if you try to please other people, it ends up starting to water stuff down. Those decisions we have to make are hard, but we usually just err on the side of 'What would we want to see?'

The films I've done with all my heart have gone on to become huge hits. When I set out to do a 'mass masala' intending to please B and C centres, it bombs.

A dog is like a liberal. He wants to please everybody. A cat really doesn't need to know that everybody loves him.

I just focus on trying to please and entertain those who have faith in my talent.

Listen to what others tell you about your voice. If you're only singing to please yourself, you might as well just sing under the shower. But if you're singing for others, you are reliant on them to ask you to sing.

It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother.

Often we lose our identity trying to please or placate others.

For me, cooking is a way to try and please people and tell them I love them. When I fall in love with someone, I want to feed them as well.

You know... the only person I really had to please after a point was the MPAA. Because Lions' Gate was like, hey, whatever you can get away with is fine, we don't care.

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.

If you remember you just have one constituent, and that's God himself, and if you try to please him I think you usually come with a lot steadier pace and a lot more peace in your life.

Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.

If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans.

All chefs are like Jewish mothers. They want to feed you and feed you and impress you. It's an eagerness to please.

My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.

You have to build your credentials as a candidate, not just as a woman. You also have to be willing to exercise power. We've been educated to be mothers, peacemakers, but we must learn that we can't please everybody.

As writers, we only aim to please. Or we aimed to please as children, which is why we became writers.

Men always like to please women. Women like to please men, too - some women. Some are very good at it.

As chefs, we cook to please people, to nourish people.

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.