Quotes About Advice

The best piece of advice I ever got from anyone was when Spike Jonze said, 'Take money out of the equation.' And that's actually when Vice started making lots of money. That's when I stopped worrying about money and started worrying about what I wanted to do.

No enemy is worse than bad advice.

The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.

The worst beauty advice that I have ever taken has been from people who have told me that sunscreen isn't necessary. Not true!

The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book.

Best advice: 'Just be yourself.' Worst advice: 'Just be yourself.'

I would be the worst acting coach ever, because I have no idea what I'm doing.

Once, I was going to a film event, and someone told me not to wear high heels to it. They said that it might intimidate the men. For some reason, I was ready to take their cue, but about an hour later, something in my head started ringing, and I thought, 'That is the worst advice anybody's ever given me.'

I'm the worst person to ask about how to get noticed. It took me 25 years.

Little pieces of advice like that can provide us with months' worth of entertainment.

Stay away from drugs. They're not worth it. I've tried, but there's none of them that's worth it.

Use an accountant the first time you file your taxes after becoming a freelancer. It will be worth it.

Tom Ford, who is my all-time favourite, once said to me, 'Here's the thing about dress shirts, Rob. You need white, and you need black.' 'What about blue,' I asked. He said, 'Have you ever seen Cary Grant in a blue dress shirt?'

Just like my agent had told me, Tom Brady is a really cool, down to earth guy.

When I was coming up, everybody wanted to be Tom Hanks. There was always Robert De Niro and Al Pacino - they were the heavily dramatic stuff. I always had a foot in both camps. The hardest thing was to resist the advice to be like someone else. It took me a while to figure that out.

I think everyone can always improve, but listening to a ton of people all the time is not necessarily a good thing.

A ton of kids at school have made fun of me; if I had to give advice to other girls, I would say, 'Hang loose and ignore them. They shouldn't faze you no matter how popular they think they are.'

I was fortunate to be under my dad. And there's a ton of things that I learned from my dad what to do. There's probably a few things I learned what not to do.

When I was a teenager, I was obsessed with black eyeliner all around the eye, but for someone with my kind of skin tone and hair colour, using brown is actually better than black. I've also learnt from makeup artists how to apply lipstick in the correct way: by starting with the Cupid's bow first and working your way around.

Along the way, I've had different advice from different music producers. I've been told to tone it down, that the quiet parts of my voice are appealing and there's harshness to the loud part of my voice.

Wear a foundation one shade lighter than your skin tone - you can always make it darker, but not lighter, once it's on.

When I was growing up, my dad wore a lot of browns and greens - darker colours, autumnal colours. When I was on the BBC news trainee scheme, around the turn of the millennium, we had someone come in and talk to us about what you wear on television, and I was told that khakis, greens and browns went very well with my skin tone.

Rahman sir was the first music director I met and I was very nervous after meeting him. I made him listen to some of my songs nervously and he told me that my tone is good but I required working on the maturity of my voice with respect to my age. That was the golden advice I got from him.

If you want to build a startup that has a good chance of succeeding, don't listen to me. Listen to Paul Graham and others who are applying tons of data to the idea of startup success. That will maximize your chance of being successful.