A lot of girls ask for advice on how to get into acting, and I'm kind of the worst person to ask, because it just kind of fell in my lap... I was just in the right place at the right time.
~By Alexis Bledel ~
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
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 ~
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
~By Harper Lee ~
Anybody who thinks talk is cheap should get some legal advice.
~By Franklin P. Jones ~
Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
~By Benjamin Franklin ~
I can remember how rude I could be at times to journalists and people phoning up for advice.
~By Benjamin Cohen ~
There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Know when to tune out, if you listen to too much advice you may wind up making other peoples mistakes.
~By Ann Landers ~
That is where the irony of the film comes off, in terms of the language it employs - where he tries desperately to be a 'TV Dad,' to give advice and it's so pat it becomes ridiculous.
~By Atom Egoyan ~
The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
Sure, I have advice for people starting to write. Don't. I don't need the competition.
~By Robert B. Parker ~
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 ~
In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.
~By James MacGregor Burns ~
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 ~
It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from "Dear Abby" instead of going to Mom and Dad.
~By Abigail Van Buren ~
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 ~
Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.
~By Carolyn Wells ~
Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.
~By Baltasar Gracian ~
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 ~
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.
~By Jose Bergamin ~
I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television.
~By John McGahern ~
No enemy is worse than bad advice.
~By Sophocles ~
An expert is somebody who is more than 50 miles from home, has no responsibility for implementing the advice he gives, and shows slides.
~By Edwin Meese ~
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
~By Joseph Addison ~
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 ~
My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.
~By William Allen White ~
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 like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
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 ~
It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family. Our legal advice was that we could not broadcast it.
~By Martin Bashir ~
My advice to kids is give it your all! Give it 110% and don't give up!
~By Vanessa Hudgens ~
In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
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 ~
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
~By Agatha Christie ~
Sorry; I have no space left for advice. Just do it.
~By Donald E. Westlake ~
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 ~
I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.
~By Harry S. Truman ~
It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
~By Aeschylus ~
Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.
~By Joan Rivers ~
My own perception of that is somewhat colored by where people ask my advice, which is still, of course, about changes to Python internals or at least standard libraries.
~By Guido van Rossum ~
So my own suspicion is that the attorney has stopped this prosecution because part of her defence was to question legality and that would have brought his advice into the public domain again and there was something fishy about the way in which he said war was legal.
~By Clare Short ~
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 ~
There are a lot of personal things that take place when becoming governor and I am happy to work with him should he ask. I will give him the best advice I can give.
~By Scott McCallum ~
I'm certainly the last person to give advice on, well, anything.
~By George Clooney ~
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 to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it.
~By Samuel Lover ~
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 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 ~
The best advice he gave me was to carry on. It would have been difficult to set foot back inside a TV studio if I hadn't carried on - I don't know if I would have ever gone back in.
~By Cilla Black ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.
~By Henry Ford ~
The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally.
~By Carroll Quigley ~
Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you.
~By Meryl Streep ~
The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
If the student could give up her work on my advice, she had better give it up without it. One does not study for a goal. The goal is a mere accident.
~By Alma Gluck ~
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
I think, especially in our business we meet a lot of people, and sometimes you spend so much time being nice to strangers, and so, you know, keeping a clear head and just being nice to each other. And that's all the advice I can give.
~By Catherine Zeta-Jones ~
What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists.
~By Paul Wellstone ~
For the most part this is a place to find down-to-earth advice on everyday cooking, eating, food shopping, cooking equipment, and nice things to put on your table.
~By Arthur Schwartz ~
Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.
~By Robert Herrick ~
It is the part of a fool to give advice to others and not himself to be on his guard.
~By Phaedrus ~
There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
No one wants advice - only corroboration.
~By John Steinbeck ~
My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit the guy, cuz he gave me the most practical advice. It empowers you.
~By Vin Diesel ~
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 ~
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
I once said the Queen of England could use some fashion advice.
~By Kathie Lee Gifford ~
Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.
~By Theodor Adorno ~
A good scare is worth more than good advice.
~By J. W. Eagan ~
Meyer and I have a bit in common because we're both left-handed. I think it's great that he seeks out that advice because he's not too cool or too uncomfortable to ask for it.
~By Barry Zito ~
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 ~
No vice is so bad as advice.
~By Marie Dressler ~
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 ~
In 16, 17 years as a pro I was used to the head coach doing it alone. He might have asked his people for advice, but he made the decisions on his own. In order to learn quickly I couldn't do that.
~By Jurgen Klinsmann ~
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 ~
He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.
~By Abu Bakr ~
My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
~By Timothy Leary ~
Advice to persons about to marry - don't.
~By Henry Mayhew ~
Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
~By Zac Efron ~
I'm gonna give them the advice that I always took myself, that it's better to get to know somebody before you jump into the sack with them. Because then if you jump into the sack and fall in love, and you liked them already, you're home free.
~By Pia Zadora ~
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 ~
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 ~
The worst men often give the best advice.
~By Francis Bacon ~
My job is to give the president and secretary of defense military advice before they know they need it.
~By John W. Vessey, Jr. ~
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 when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
~By Aeschylus ~
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 ~
Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
~By Edna St. Vincent Millay ~
That's my advice to all homosexuals, whether they're in the Boy Scouts, or in the Army or in high school: Shut up, don't tell anybody what you do, your life will be a lot easier.
~By Bill O'Reilly ~
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 ~
A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.
~By James Callaghan ~
Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there.
~By David Zucker ~
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 ~
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 ~
It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.
~By Friedrich Schiller ~
I'm not a very good advice-giver.
~By Juliana Hatfield ~
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