My advice to an aspiring actor would be to never stop learning or working for what you want. Nothing comes easy, ever, if you want something, you have to work for it. By working for it I mean work on your craft, learn from people who have something to teach. It's just like anything else, practice makes perfect.
~By James Lafferty ~
There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
~By Sophocles ~
All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs.
~By Andrew Fletcher ~
Never give advice in a crowd.
~By Pope Paul VI ~
My students frequently ask what their next project should be. My advice: immerse yourself in the music you love and you will find what you want to do; you will discover your next project.
~By Lukas Foss ~
Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.
~By Jack Davenport ~
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
~By Thornton Wilder ~
The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.
~By Jack Kevorkian ~
Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.
~By Richard M. Nixon ~
I'm very wary about giving advice. I think it's very dangerous to give advice to people, except if you know them very well.
~By Omar Sharif ~
Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate.
~By Patricia Ireland ~
A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
~By Bill Cosby ~
I met with my lawyers. They gave me all the wrong advice. For a long time I refused to accept the child was mine. I should have met her, arranged a DNA test and accepted my responsibility.
~By Boris Becker ~
In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.
~By Anne Sophie Swetchine ~
I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don't need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording.
~By Charlie Daniels ~
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
~By Edward W. Howe ~
The most consistent gift and burden of motherhood is advice.
~By Susan Chira ~
Advice may not be good advice 10 or 15 years from now. Someone could tell you something years ago and it might not work now. The world is constantly changing. One word could mean something different today. Today you can't give advice to anyone.
~By Roy Haynes ~
If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
~By Jack Adams ~
It is plain that, when it comes to inferior officers, Congress itself can pass a law sending these nominees to the President with him having the authority to put them on the bench without the advice and consent of the Senate.
~By John Jay Hooker ~
It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
~By Logan P. Smith ~
However, I think, first of all, that what's happening in Sierra Leone is going to have the great influence on those governments who will be asked to provide forces to the Congo. Second, of course, the Security Council has no professional military advice organized in any way.
~By Alex Morrison ~
She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).
~By Lewis Carroll ~
I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.
~By Soren Kierkegaard ~
Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.
~By Anna Howard Shaw ~
Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well.
~By Germaine Greer ~
Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.
~By Robert B. Parker ~
I'm not a very good advice-giver.
~By Juliana Hatfield ~
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
The best careers advice to give to the young is 'Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for doing it.'
~By Katherine Whitehorn ~
At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler.
~By Dennis Ritchie ~
The most significant piece of advice my father gave me early on about acting was, don't get caught acting. Really believe in what you're doing and then commit to it. Even if it feels uncomfortable, even if you feel that you're gonna look like an ass. It's all acting, but find the truth in a moment as opposed to just pretending you have and rather than trying to act your way out of it.
~By Kiefer Sutherland ~
Children don't need much advice but they really do need to be listened to and not just with half an ear.
~By Emma Thompson ~
Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long.
~By Robert Lynd ~
The Muslim leaders swallow the advice of the Western powers and bodies like the IMF and World Bank, even when it is bad for their countries and they know this.
~By Abu Bakar Bashir ~
The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'
~By Dinah Shore ~
I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.
~By Barry Williams ~
He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
~By Francis Bacon ~
I guess I had it made. My mother gave me advice - she taught me that women like to be looked in the eye - and my grandmother gave me condoms.
~By Usher Raymond ~
I don't think anybody can be told how to act. I think you can give advice. But you have to find your own way through it.
~By Judi Dench ~
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
The only advice I would give Christians entering the world of arts: give yourself a period of time, maybe three or four years. If you haven't made it in your chosen art form, dump it.
~By Cliff Richard ~
The Athenians are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all.
~By Protagoras ~
As far as advice to potential teenage idols, there is no formula.
~By Bobby Sherman ~
Women don't like advice. They don't want you to fix their problems, they just want you to listen.
~By Shawn Wayans ~
Nobody ever seems to want my advice about serious stuff. People will be like: 'Who made that sweater?' Or 'How did you get your hair so straight?' They don't to come to me for the relationship advice or deep stuff. In fact, my little sister actually hides from me.
~By Lauren Graham ~
I'm certainly the last person to give advice on, well, anything.
~By George Clooney ~
There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
~By Joseph Addison ~
There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.
~By Bo Bennett ~
I'm not in the business of becoming famous. And that's the advice I give to younger aspiring actors. Work onstage and do the little roles. In the end it's not important to be seen. It's important to do. There's a lot of disappointment in this business, but my family keeps me grounded.
~By Kristen Bell ~
A lot of people think I'm cynical when I talk about acting. The truth of the matter is, I just don't want someone to get some lame advice that will send them in the wrong direction.
~By Amber Tamblyn ~
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
~By Joseph Addison ~
Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
~By Gordon R. Dickson ~
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
~By Baltasar Gracian ~
I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.
~By Jennifer Aniston ~
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
~By Aesop ~
Whatever advice you give, be short.
~By Horace ~
Listen to advice. You don't know how many writer's conferences I've taught at where at least half the audience fights all the conventions of the field.
~By Jane Haddam ~
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
~By George Chapman ~
Clearly, we need to have the very best advice and counsel on what actions can be taken to help lower the cost of gasoline.
~By Jeff Bingaman ~
I considered Nat King Cole to be a friend and, in many ways, a mentor. He always had words of profound advice.
~By Diahann Carroll ~
In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.
~By Solon ~
I also did an Ozzy piece for him, and so I got hired. Everything happened really fast. I can't give people advice, because everything in my life changed completely in less than a year and it's still not something I am used to.
~By Chuck Klosterman ~
When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
~By Al Franken ~
Don't give advice unless you're asked.
~By Amy Alcott ~
It's queer how ready people always are with advice in any real or imaginary emergency, and no matter how many times experience has shown them to be wrong, they continue to set forth their opinions, as if they had received them from the Almighty!
~By Anne Sullivan ~
It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
~By David Hockney ~
My advice, Be healthy, reach your own goals and don't be afraid to impersonate a SNL star.
~By Teri Hatcher ~
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
~By Wilson Mizner ~
It gets really tricky giving advice. The older I get, the less advice I give.
~By Anne Heche ~
I had neither expert aid nor advice. I studied no courses in writing; until a year or so ago, I never read a book by anybody advising writers how to write.
~By Robert E. Howard ~
Here's good advice for practice: go into partnership with nature; she does more than half the work and asks none of the fee.
~By Martin H. Fischer ~
Now that it's officially summer, here's my advice to parents who want to continue teaching their kids during the next two months and learn something themselves: visit Civil War battlefields.
~By Marvin Olasky ~
Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend.
~By Leslie Fiedler ~
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Pension reforms, like investment advice and automatic enrollment, will strengthen the ability of Americans to save and invest for retirement.
~By Steve Bartlett ~
Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.
~By Abu Bakr ~
Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet.
~By King Edward VIII ~
If I have any advice to give to the Syrian president it is to cooperate for the sake of the investigation or for the sake of uncovering the truth.
~By Walid Jumblatt ~
The advice that I usually give to young actors is that if you can create a character for the stage and keep that character fresh for at least 6 months that means you're doing the show eight times a week.
~By Joe Morton ~
For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness.
~By Terence ~
I'm not in the business of becoming famous. And that's the advice I give to younger aspiring actors. Work onstage and do the little roles. In the end it's not important to be seen. It's important to do. There's a lot of disappointment in this business, but my family keeps me grounded.
~By Kristen Bell ~
The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
~By Arthur Helps ~
I tell people, Don't take my advice. What do I know?
~By Nick Lachey ~
Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
~By Josh Billings ~
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
~By Gloria Steinem ~
My job is to give the president and secretary of defense military advice before they know they need it.
~By John W. Vessey, Jr. ~
It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
But I try not to become preoccupied with that because with whatever direction I follow, with whatever advice I've followed or not followed, It's landed me in New York, in a very beautiful hotel, talking to people about something that I love. So I ain't that far off.
~By Eriq La Salle ~
I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.
~By Jack Nicholson ~
My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I've tried to follow that advice.
~By Warren Christopher ~
I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
~By Edna St. Vincent Millay ~
We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.
~By David Sarnoff ~
My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.
~By Adam Savage ~
Sorry; I have no space left for advice. Just do it.
~By Donald E. Westlake ~
There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
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