Don't give advice unless you're asked.

- Amy Alcott

I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.

- Carol Ann Duffy

Many people have asked me how I feel about losing my job.

- Carly Fiorina

I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.

- Carly Fiorina

I asked the question, 'Will I ever perform again?'

- Brian Harvey

I don't give my advice unless it's asked for.

- Blythe Danner

And several galleries - two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment.

- Beatrice Wood

If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard.

- Bob Woodward

I haven't done period dramas back-to-back, or really anything back-to-back. You get asked to do what you're most recently famed for, so I'm careful of not repeating myself.

- Benedict Cumberbatch

I am the flower child who will not wilt. You couldn't have asked for anything more.

- Annie Golden

I never had an existential moment when I asked myself what I was going to do. I always wanted to be a lawyer, and I knew exactly the kind of lawyer I wanted to be.

- Alan Dershowitz

When I was a teenager, if you'd asked me, I would have said I was in a relationship with New York City. It was my first real love.

- Aleksa Palladino

I've worked with very few directors who've asked of me what I asked of myself.

- Asia Argento

I really prayed and asked God for my first film.

- Anthony Hemingway

One day, a musician asked me what I did. When I told him I was to be a businessman, he laughed and said, 'You are not a businessman.' Sometimes all it takes is one person to put an important thought in your head, and he did.

- Alexander Hanson

An adaptation I was working on of Trollope's 'The Pallisers' has been axed by the BBC... I was also going to do Dickens' 'Dombey and Son' but they've asked me to do 'David Copperfield' instead.

- Andrew Davies

I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me.

- Agnetha Faltskog

Frankly, no one had ever asked me before. My sexuality is something I'm completely comfortable with and open about.

- Anna Paquin

I know what I'm good at, and if I'm asked to do something I'm not - like hip-hop dancing - I get self-conscious.

- Anton du Beke

For 20 years, Simon & Schuster asked me, 'Why don't you write your autobiography?'

- Arnold Schwarzenegger