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 ~
To offer a man unsolicited advice is to presume that he doesn't know what to do or that he can't do it on his own.
~By John Gray ~
There are a lot of people who will come to me for advice or whatever.
~By Joe Mantegna ~
I'm opening up my heart to the idea of dating. It's funny - my friends would always come to me for romantic advice. I know nothing, and things have changed since I was dating in high school! I'm really trying hard to spend this time working on myself.
~By Olivia Wilde ~
I understand how hard it is to talk to people about MS. You don't want pity or random advice.
~By Teri Garr ~
The advice would be the same for any kind of fiction. Keep writing, and keep sending things out, not to friends and relatives, but to people who have the power to buy. A lot of additional, useful tips could be added, but this is fundamental.
~By Fred Saberhagen ~
Hollywood is fickle; your career can end pretty fast. If the acting jobs dry up, you have to have something to fall back on. In fact, that would be my advice to kids interested in acting - make sure you get an education too.
~By Matthew Lawrence ~
My advice to someone to follow in my footsteps is to have patience. I've been doing this for twelve years.
~By Christina Milian ~
I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know about this problem at this time. And here are the consequences of these actions.
~By Joyce Brothers ~
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
The worst men often give the best advice.
~By Francis Bacon ~
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
~By Edward W. Howe ~
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice.
~By Norman Ralph Augustine ~
Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment.
~By Sally Quinn ~
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 ~
So there was a constant flow and a thin line there between reality and television and yes, much of what I was experiencing in my real life was also what was going on in the television show to the extent that I had to take writers' advice and from the counselors around.
~By Alan Thicke ~
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 ~
My advice is keep your lips away from the spinning things.
~By Adam Savage ~
He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.
~By Omar Sharif ~
Unfortunately, I was not wise enough to listen to her advice, and hastily married. In a few weeks, I had occasion to repent of the step I had taken, as the report proved true - a report which I thought justified, and indeed required, our separation.
~By Maria Monk ~
Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.
~By Meg Cabot ~
Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate.
~By Patricia Ireland ~
As far as we were concerned, we were operators, we were administrators. I don't ever recall going to Dean Acheson and asking for any counsel or advice on administration, but I had the greatest respect for him, as I have today.
~By Paul Hoffman ~
My advice, Be healthy, reach your own goals and don't be afraid to impersonate a SNL star.
~By Teri Hatcher ~
The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.
~By Arthur Helps ~
Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice.
~By Don J. Manuel ~
Ask Mother for advice on breaking into show business.
~By Jack Davenport ~
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 ~
A student will send me an urgent appeal to hear her, saying she is poor and wants my advice as to whether it is worth while to continue her studies. I invariably refuse such requests.
~By Alma Gluck ~
Don't give your advice before you are called upon.
~By Desiderius Erasmus ~
Listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies.
~By Irving Berlin ~
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
~By George Chapman ~
The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.
~By Eden Phillpotts ~
Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.
~By Robert Herrick ~
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 ~
I don't think a reporter should give advice or make predictions.
~By Peter Jennings ~
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
~By Kitty O'Neill Collins ~
Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.
~By J. B. Priestley ~
I can remember how rude I could be at times to journalists and people phoning up for advice.
~By Benjamin Cohen ~
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always want it the least.
~By Earl of Chesterfield ~
We will say to people that if you can work, and if you want to work, we will do everything we can to help you. We will give you the training, we will give you the support, we will give you the advice to get you going and get you back at work.
~By David Cameron ~
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 ~
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 ~
We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
~By Tom Stoppard ~
I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing over whether it is true or not.
~By Peter Medawar ~
The president took the advice of my East Texas grandmother: If you can skin a cat without getting the room all bloody, why not do it that way?
~By Richard Land ~
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
~By Socrates ~
Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.
~By Carolyn Wells ~
Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.
~By Dave Barry ~
There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
~By Joseph Addison ~
My Department has already recognised this and has been working specifically on the technical support issue since January and will offer advice to schools during the Autumn term.
~By Estelle Morris ~
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 ~
Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.
~By Rudy Rucker ~
I never take advice from anyone more messed up than I am.
~By Tom Hopkins ~
It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house.
~By Warren E. Burger ~
Sandler's always good. Tom Hanks gave me some good advice.
~By Jimmy Fallon ~
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 ~
Generally speaking, when a woman offers unsolicited advice or tries to help a man, she has no idea of how critical and unloving he may sound to him.
~By John Gray ~
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 ~
My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school.
~By Jillian Bach ~
It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
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 ~
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
~By Samuel Smiles ~
My other advice is to start writing songs and singing right away.
~By Jerry Harrison ~
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 ~
When I was in my early 20s, I had my hair permed. Bad idea! It turned into total frizz. My advice to women is, if you have nice hair already, don't get a perm, leave your hair alone!
~By Mariska Hargitay ~
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 ~
I once said the Queen of England could use some fashion advice.
~By Kathie Lee Gifford ~
My advice is to make acting your second career choice.
~By Amber Tamblyn ~
My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.
~By William Allen White ~
When your mother asks, "Do you want a piece of advice?" it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway.
~By Erma Bombeck ~
Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there.
~By David Zucker ~
Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men don't think there's a lot they don't know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, "I know what I'm doing, just show me somebody naked."
~By Jerry Seinfeld ~
I'm certainly the last person to give advice on, well, anything.
~By George Clooney ~
It gets really tricky giving advice. The older I get, the less advice I give.
~By Anne Heche ~
As far as advice, that will be in my next book, my next collection. I certainly never like to instruct anyone, but just say as I feel. That's the same as advice, isn't it?
~By Fay Wray ~
My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it.
~By Samuel Lover ~
We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.
~By David Sarnoff ~
In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.
~By Winston Churchill ~
My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.
~By Mark Warner ~
When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him.
~By Josh Billings ~
When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Most people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
I counseled many returning missionaries. I interviewed 1,700 missionaries all over the world. My advice to them is that you should study and prepare for your life's work in a field that you enjoy.
~By Thomas S. Monson ~
I'm not a very good advice-giver.
~By Juliana Hatfield ~
If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
~By Galileo Galilei ~
Sorry; I have no space left for advice. Just do it.
~By Donald E. Westlake ~
Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that's gonna keep you completly original and fresh and I just think that, that's just the best advice I can give, to an artist creatively.
~By Bubba Sparxxx ~
The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.
~By Andres Segovia ~
Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes.
~By Ann Landers ~
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.
~By Henri Nouwen ~
His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.
~By Oliver Hudson ~
I think there has to be greater heed paid by the Security Council members to military advice.
~By Alex Morrison ~
It is the part of a fool to give advice to others and not himself to be on his guard.
~By Phaedrus ~
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
~By Agatha Christie ~
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 ~
What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.
~By Aeschylus ~
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