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Advice Quotes - Page 52

My advice to any actor who's playing, quote, unquote, "extra" to think of it more like Stanislavski did. It's not a small part. You are the lead in the movie, in your own movie.

"Moment Of Truth In 'Youth' Hits Home For Actor Harvey Keitel". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. December 5, 2015.

Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly.

H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.616, Vintage

If the advice of a fool for once happens to be good, it requires a wise man to carry it out.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1868). “Nathan the Wise: A Dramatic Poem”, p.230

Getting lost in her loving is your first mistake.

"Sundown". Song by Gordon Lightfoot, March 25, 1974.

Beware of long arguments and long beards.

George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana”

I lost touch with my son in terms of advice early on. Maybe it had to do with being gone so much, doing location films when he was at an age where he needed support and guidance.

"Eighty-one Years. Seventy-nine Movies. Two Oscars. Not One Bad Performance". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. June 1, 2011.

Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Paul Victor Cohn (1910). “Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”

Nothing is given so profusely as advice.

"The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 110, 1678.

He of whom many are afraid ought himself to fear many.

Francis Bacon, John Blackbourne, George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress) (1730). “Francisci Baconi Baronis de Verulamio ... Opera Omnia Quatuor Voluminibus Comprehensa: Containing, I. His Natural history. II. Physiological and medical remains. III. The new Atlantis. IV. His Apothegms. V. Essays. VI. Colours of good and evil. VII. History of the reign of Henry VII. VIII. History of Henry VIII. IX. Beginning of the history of Great Britain. X. Of a war with Spain. XI. Of an holy war. XII. The history of the office of alienations. XIII. Advice to the Duke of Buckingham, Sir Geor”, p.295