No vice is so bad as advice.
At a certain point, you try to avoid reading feedback or blogs because there's always the risk of reading some sort of negative stuff that can be hard to hear.
Thinking back, the majority of the conflicts I've had in my life have been a result of offering up my two unwelcome cents, crossing that line between constructive truth-telling and preaching.
People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare.
Opinions are like a**holes, everybody has one.
Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never.
We all have the temptation to be backseat drivers when it comes to decisions that don't work out the way we want.
It's always dangerous to prescribe an idea on other people.
It's hard to make out the difference between insults and bad advice.
People feel they can just pass judgement with a tweet or with a comment and then you're supposed to change your life for them. I can't worry about what some phantom individual online has to say about me.
Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.
I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements.
I have received more advice than any man living—mostly bad.
It's hard sometimes to not want to know what people are saying behind your back and to ignore certain things that are being written.
It's annoying when people go, 'I didn't know you could actually sing.'
Nothing is given so profusely as advice.
My dad used to tell me 'opinions are like assholes, everybody has one'
Political advice is a bit like your average Christmas fruitcake: something everyone gives and no one wants.
If you feel uncomfortable about something, just because you're in the public eye, it doesn't mean it doesn't hurt when people say things.
Look, you know, you can't please everybody. I'm a stand-up comic. I know that. It doesn't matter how funny you are and how well you do, there's two people that are going to walk out of there hating you.
A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
A person's body changing is simply not clearance for you to talk about it.
Everyone makes fun of my calves. They are so big. I don't really even like them, I don't really want them as big as they are, but I have no choice.
Sometimes it's better to not read too much, to not listen to everybody.
