Pat Travers Quotes

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

I decided I should go after the roles I like, that I am inspired by, and then, if I am having a good time, chances are that people will like watching you.

No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.

I can say with full sincerity that I am happy. I'm happy because I'm doing what I love and I'm not selling out.

I enjoy every role I do.

I don't care about commercial success. I get to do what I love and communicate whatever I want.

I will act because I enjoy it.

It seems like a gross waste of time to continue our career predicated on the idea that we're going to divide opinion. What's more important is just doing something that you love.

It's not always about huge giant commercial success. It's about art.

Me being myself, I'm not happy when I'm not playing.

With 'Haters Back Off,' I'm creating something that I want to make, and I'm not focused on, 'Is this gonna trend, is this gonna be popular?' I'm just focused on telling the story.

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.

I'm having fun. I'm being myself. I'm doing what I love. That's all that matters.

I can't play the game of basketball and live my life on what other people expect me to do or what they think I should do. That doesn't make me happy. What makes me happy is being able to make plays for my teammates, to be able to represent the name on the back of my jersey.

You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness: Complete use of one's faculties along lines leading to excellence in a life affording them scope. It applies to women as well as to men. We can't all reach it, but we can try to reach it to some degree.

I’m not trying to satisfy anybody but myself and the role that I’m playing.

Have fun. Keep your integrity. Do what you want to do and stay true to that.

I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.

You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.

I just want to get on stage and sing and be happy.

In the music industry, we value large success. I realized that while I would like that, that it's not what my writing is about. And if I start making it about that, it becomes impure.

I try to please myself. I don't try to anticipate what people want to see.

I'm doing exactly what I want to do, and I'm having fun doing it.

Satisfying myself is the point in filmmaking, in my mind.

I'm not entangled in shaping my work according to other people's views of how I should have done it.