"Know Your Voice and Stand By It," Says Angelina Jolie as TIFF 2017 Stars Share The Best Advice They've Received

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Oscar-winner Christoph Waltz was advised to "stay away" from acting at a younger age.

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00:00What's the best advice?

00:01What is the best advice?

00:03Oh my god.

00:03Um, um...

00:05Advice for what?

00:06Just in general.

00:07What is the best advice you've ever received?

00:09Professionally or personally.

00:11Take Fountain.

00:15It's fantastic, isn't it?

00:17Bette Davis.

00:18Anyone going to Hollywood, that is the best advice.

00:21You have to explain, it's an avenue.

00:22No, no, no.

00:23Take Fountain, Bette Davis.

00:24Let them do the work.

00:30Best advice you've ever received, either personally or professionally?

00:35Never take advice.

00:36Never resist a generous impulse.

00:39Don't take candy from strangers.

00:41I've been told, don't be so weird.

00:44I've been told you should wear more makeup because you're actually pretty.

00:47Don't lie.

00:48Do what you say you're going to do.

00:50If you make a mistake, fix it.

00:52And don't speak unless it's funny.

00:53Don't eat yellow snow.

00:57This is a really good one, actually.

00:59You don't change people.

01:01Actually, an old actor said to me once, and it's very, very true in all walks of life,

01:06learn how to nap.

01:07That came naturally for me at age 35.

01:10For me, it came from Chaka Khan.

01:12And she told me to get out of my own way.

01:14That was years ago.

01:16And I'm still working on that, getting out of my own way.

01:19I think I was always just told to always be myself,

01:23which I actually think is a line that Julie Walters said to me in Billy Elliot,

01:26which I think actually is a fictitious line, but still a good piece of advice.

01:30I think it's not advice that I was given.

01:33It's something that I've learned.

01:35It's just to wear your own shoes.

01:37Well, you guys don't understand what that means.

01:39I do.

01:40She understands.

01:41Because I always wear the wrong shoes.

01:43Yeah.

01:44You have to put them on the correct feet.

01:46Ignore people when they say you can't necessarily do something.

01:49I was told early on, stay away.

01:52Stay away from what?

01:53From acting?

01:54Yeah.

01:55Get out and open your eyes.

01:56The world is filled with things to see.

01:58A great director once told me, talent we can find.

02:02What we need as people in filmmaking is endurance.

02:07Mine was right at the beginning of my career.

02:10I used to introduce myself by saying, you know, I'm Angela Robinson and I want to be a filmmaker.

02:17And a friend of mine said, if you want to be a filmmaker, say you're a filmmaker.

02:22Don't say you want to be a filmmaker.

02:24So I started introducing myself.

02:26I'm Angela Robinson and I'm a filmmaker.

02:28And that just little shift in thinking, I think really made a big difference.

02:33And it worked out.

02:34Hey, look at this.

02:35Here you are.

02:37When you're starting out as a young actor, you're being hopeful.

02:41So many people vying for so few positions.

02:43But someone told me once, if you see actors on a screen, whether it's in the theater or

02:48on your TV, that's proof that it can be done.

02:50So why not you?

02:51And for me, my advice would be, like, love the story that you're doing and do the only

02:55thing that you love.

02:56Just be fully as you are and know your voice and stand by it.

03:02Because I think you draw your own line and you stand.

03:05Be bold and risky and adventurous in what you're doing.

03:10Don't think, you know, conventionally so much.

03:13I think you really will satisfy yourself and achieve your best work if you take some risks

03:18risks and try to go all the way rather than do what seems easiest or what maybe first

03:23comes to mind.

03:24I mean, just really go for it.

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