Don’t try to please everyone. There are countless people who don’t want one, haven’t heard of one or actively hate it. So what?
Don’t try to make a product for everybody, because that is a product for nobody.
Your being alone is important and has validity beyond any philosophy. That is the message that you are trying to give to yourself. You are each trying to rediscover for yourselves, in your terms now - after centuries of myths and distortions - the validity of your own beings.
Rather than simply interrupting a television show with a commercial or barging into the consumer’s life with an unannounced phone call or letter, tomorrow’s marketer will first try to gain the consumer’s consent to participate in the selling process.
What could you measure? What would that cost? How fast could you get the results? If you can afford it, try it. If you measure it, it will improve.
A lot of pop music is based on trying to make people remember it so that they'll buy it. To me, it was not about that.
To be world champion brings fame. The fame brings good things and bad things too. I try to take the good with calmness.
Many of the American cartoonists that want to have a job and go so much for the total right without thinking, sometimes they get a slap on the face when their politician lets them down. So it goes on and on. The thing is staying in the middle and not getting committed, trying to get the best of both and do that with a sense of humor.
When people got old, why did they always develop a passion for scrabbling in the earth? Were they trying to get used to it?
All we can do is try not to fall.
Newspaper reporting is really storytelling. We call our articles 'stories,' and we try to tell them in a way that even people who don't know all the background can understand them.
If I'm not playing well, I do get down on myself because I am a perfectionist. [So I need] someone who believes in me more than I believe in me, someone willing to work as hard as I work. I don't understand what no means or what failure means; I only understand what yes means and try again means.
We, or I, cannot monitor everyone all of the time. If people want to do wrong, they will also try to hide it.
On played the Mayor's daughters in Horton Hears a Who: I had never done animation, so I thought it would be cool to try something different.
Being immersed in the fashion world is very addicting. I have to admit, at first, it was really overwhelming and I would get stressed about putting things together. Now, it's like trying to figure out a puzzle piece, and I love that.
Obviously I like to make sure that my life is separate, so as me as a person, I know that my fans know me. But as an actor I like to do different things and I'm gonna want to try new things that may not necessarily have a positive meaning.
If something is in my mind, I can easily forget everything else and maybe forget about other people. I'm trying to change it's not that I'm that bad. I want people to want to work with me.
I'm still trying to figure myself out as an actor.
You have to have fear to take risks - and I want to at least try.
I think that's what Dylan's trying to do: to create a space artistically where something else can take shape, can take life - where there's hope.
A clearer and more conventional narrative would have helped the film without, in my opinion, lessening its beauty and its impact. Frankly, I'm still trying to figure out what I'm doing there and what I was supposed to add in that context! What's more, Terry Malick himself never managed to explain it to me clearly.
You try to do your best at what you're getting paid for.
The best films in the world, you've got to beg and plead and try your best to get.
Consumerism has become a new religion, complete with its high priests at Which? and its fatwas against anyone with the temerity to try to sell anything at more than cost price ... It is a depressingly medieval outlook on economic life.
To put it in my music, that's not the message I am trying to send out. That's not the type of artist I am trying to be.
