Appease Quotes

I don`t `handle` people. It`s so much easier to manipulate actors than to really have an earnest discussion with them. It`s very easy to say whatever`s going to appease them and then turn around and do whatever you want to do. It`s difficult to be forthright with people, because the job does not lend itself to that.

This is my chance to get out there and appease the fans of my music as well as show people that I do do standup comedy because a lot of people don`t know that`s where I started.

I think that if you can achieve a balance, then you appease a lot of yourself and your career and what it takes to maintain in this business for a while.

Oftentimes they are. But I can`t live my life trying to change me to appease someone else. If someone`s intimidated by me, that`s something they have to deal with. When I walk down the streets of New York and an old woman grabs her purse when I pass by, I`m not going to give it a whole lot of energy because I`m not in the wrong, I`m a millionaire and I`m not thinking about grabbing an old woman`s purse. Also, there`s a difference between presence and physical size. I think I`ve been blessed with screen presence, but if you look at me next to John Travolta, for example, John`s bigger than I am. I do work out and I am muscular, but I am not that big a man. (On if people are intimidated by his size)

I always thought to myself, `Why should I appease you, Mr. So-and-So? Why shouldn`t I just be who I am and do what I do? It doesn`t really matter what I look like as long as the music is good,

Why am I compelled to write?... Because the world I create in the writing compensates for what the real world does not give me. By writing I put order in the world, give it a handle so I can grasp it. I write because life does not appease my appetites and anger... To become more intimate with myself and you. To discover myself, to preserve myself, to make myself, to achieve self-autonomy. To dispell the myths that I am a mad prophet or a poor suffering soul. To convince myself that I am worthy and that what I have to say is not a pile of shit... Finally I write because I`m scared of writing, but I`m more scared of not writing.