Quotes About Approval

My victory is when the audience buys a ticket to watch my film. I am extremely thrilled when they give it a thumbs-up.

I was a kid, and I would watch standup comics do the 'Tonight Show,' and if Johnny Carson liked you, he'd wave you over to the desk; that pretty much meant you were about to be the most successful comedian in the country for the next few years.

I think anybody who says they don't care about being liked is lying. I care if my dog waves its tail when I come home. But you're not going to make everybody happy.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It's impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

We cannot say no to what has already been approved by the citizens.

When I look back at my career it is nice to know that I've been appreciated on and off the pitch because not everyone is.

I don't like the five-person group dynamic. I just never have. It doesn't make sense to me that six people would just sit in a circle and say, 'Now I want approval,' 'Now I want approval,' 'Now I want approval.' 'I have something funny to say,' 'No, I have something funny to say, me!' It's hard to make plans.

I'm finally my dad's favourite because Kevin Costner is playing him.

Am I trying to win the approval of human beings or God? If I were still trying to please people I would not be a servant of Christ.

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've done only things I've liked, and I'm happy that others have liked them, too. I hope it keeps going that way. But l would never want to do films which please just one set of audience; they should connect with everyone.

When I was young, I just tried to please everybody.

You don't want to let people down, and that's so hard because you're never going to please everybody. There's always going to be someone that's a naysayer.

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.

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.

It is an actor's defect. I want everybody to like me, so I'll say what I think will please them.

I haven't mowed a lawn in quite a while, but I remember hating that when I was growing up. To please Dad, you have to get it right, and that's the thing. You have to please Dad.

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.

I took a lot of bad things after Athens. I just learnt to deal with it. The problem was beforehand I had this feeling where I was trying to please everybody - I wanted everybody to like me.

As a teen-ager I was constantly trying to please people, which I guess is true of all adolescents.

From the first instant I met her, I wanted to be Nora Ephron. I just really wanted to please her.

If anything, I want to please people too much.

I made a lot of mistakes growing up, trying so hard to fit in. I got so lost trying to please everybody.