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.
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!
Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you.
We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.
No one wants advice - only corroboration.
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.
I think he's informing himself, reaching out and getting ideas and information and advice. I haven't the slightest doubt that internally taking shape in that marvelous brain of his is a philosophy of foreign affairs. But it would be premature to say that one is fully formed.
Good advice is one of those injuries which a good man ought, if possible, to forgive, but at all events to forget at once.
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.
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.
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.'
As far as advice to potential teenage idols, there is no formula.
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
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.