Quotes About Self-expression

You write to please yourself, you write to move yourself, to engage yourself in the asking of questions that are important to you.

I mean, if I was living to please people, I'd have never been in a band at all. I wouldn't have anything awesome around. I'd just be bored.

When I make movies, I don't ever go out there to please anyone other than myself. I never try to make a film for the masses. I just try to tell my story.

I will never censor myself to please anyone.

With my designs and my ideas, I want to please myself first.

I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.

You can't please everybody. I give up. I'm not trying to. I don't care. Leave me alone with that.

I don't do any art to please any people.

I didn't start drama school until I was 20, and I don't think I would have gotten nearly as much out of it had I gone when I was 18. I didn't show up there to please anyone. After I was accepted, I wrote, 'The Audition's Over' and put it on the door of my dorm.

Most of what I wear, I select myself. You can't please everybody, and as long as I'm comfortable with what I wear, I think that's what's important.

You're not going to be perfect, but the most important thing is not trying to please anybody. It's loving yourself inside out.

You have to understand that your music isn't for everybody; your job isn't to please everybody.

I know at the back of my mind that there's no way I can please everybody, so I still just have to be myself anyway.

All I can do is follow my instincts, because I'll never please everyone.

I do want to make music that people love, but I also want to make music that I love. I know I can't please everyone with anything I do, so I don't think too much about how other people are going to take things.

I have never been a mass appeal kind of an actor, so I don't have to worry. I don't have to please everyone.

America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damned well pleased.

I remember as a kid being asked if I was Jewish or Irish. I said, like the glib little 15-year-old I was, 'You can be both.' Feeling very pleased with myself. Before they smacked me.

I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.

I think my whole life, I put a lot of energy into pleasing other people, and trying to make jokes, and trying to make people laugh.

I'm 25. I'm a white, blonde girl in the entertainment industry - it's so easy to fall into a world of pleasing everyone. I feel more comfortable showing all these odd angles to myself.

Even if I get dressed in a way that is pleasing to people, I know I will get trolled.

I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.

Even as a child, Muhammad Ali got perverse pleasure out of being different. He liked the attention it got him, but most of all he just liked being himself: odd and independent.