I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
You can't satisfy everybody; especially if there are those who will be dissatisfied unless not everybody is satisfied.
It's incredibly difficult to make sure that everybody's happy.
It is impossible to please all the world
Every child is taught if you try to please everyone, you end up upsetting everyone.
You cannot please all of the people all of the time, and that is truer in the arts than anywhere else.
Trying to please everyone can be very hard, but, like 'Shrek' or 'The Simpsons,' 'Robin Hood' manages to entertain adults and children at the same time, but in different ways.
You can have so many different demands; trying to please the fans, pleasing the manager, please yourself.
People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.
When you read something, it's a movie in your mind and such a personal experience. What we're trying to do is to bring a consensus version of that to life and make as many people happy as we can.
Everybody has their own opinions and you cannot please everybody. I'm never going to try to do that - to please everybody - because there is always somebody who will say they don't like it.
It is not the business of politicians to please everyone.
You'd die very sad if you tried to make everyone in the world happy, you know what I mean? You can't; no one can.
You can't make everybody happy.
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.
Y'know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show.
The politicians, they try to please everybody and when you want to please everybody, you won't please everybody. That's not my way of doing politics.
You're never going to please everyone, and if you do, there's something wrong.
You cannot please everyone. You cannot soothe everyone.
I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.
You can't satisfy everybody. If you do, you're probably doing something wrong.
I've always navigated my way around the comedy writing rooms because I didn't want to cater to this side and that side; I just wanted to be liked by everybody.
I want to reach out to everybody with my music and my album, but you're never going to please everybody. Someone's going to say something because, you know, it's an opinionated industry.
I've found that if you just try to make the film you want, you'll find the right audience. If you try to please everyone, you're going to make really boring films.
It ends up being a terrible movie if you try and please everyone.
