TIME100 Next Gala: What’s the Worst Piece of Advice You’ve Ever Received?

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00:00What is the worst piece of advice you've ever received or advice that you're glad that you ignored?

00:04Oh, don't run for governor.

00:08There's a lot of people saying that initially, but they're pretty quiet now.

00:13I probably have been told a million times not to dress a very long list of people

00:18and I just dressed all of them and told everyone to like go shove it

00:22and it's been my biggest moments ever in my career.

00:25So yeah, so I usually don't take advice very well.

00:29I just do what I like to do and it usually works out.

00:32Every now and then, I don't know, the housewives might get in trouble,

00:34but other than that it usually works out.

00:37Someone told me at drama school that you can't be truthful unless your feet are in parallel

00:43and I was like, what?

00:46So you can't, unless your feet are like that, there's no way you can do good acting?

00:51I was like, shut up.

00:54Is that a good one?

00:57You need a four-year degree to do anything in life?

01:00I was like, yeah, probably that.

01:03To be anywhere, to be successful, honestly.