Jena Malone Quotes

Part of being young is making mistakes.

I think we all get into situations where we don't know how to proceed, and those are really the scariest moments that we have, but that's also what makes us 'grow up' and learn a lot about each other.

I had a lot of growing up to do. A lot of times, I learned the hard way.

I was young not too long ago, and I know the last thing you want is someone preaching to you.

I wish there were people when I was young that I had a respect for and looked up to that I could have been guided by. I didn't have that, and I really do wish I did because I think I would've learned a lot more.

I made so many mistakes when I was younger.

When you get a bit older, you gain more experience, and you try to put it to good use, to help yourself in different ways and also the young players.

When you are 16 or 17, you think you are right about everything. But when you are over 20, you realise the mistakes you made at 16 or 18. You learn with age.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.

Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.

Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.

No man is ever old enough to know better.

I believe that young people are looking for answers to the big questions just like everyone else, and that they respect intelligent comment to help guide them through tough times.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

I'm at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I'm playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It's exciting and scary.

You can't tell them anything, but hopefully they will learn from the example and won't have to go through it.

What teens will realize is always a mystery to me. I'm still realizing so many things myself, very belatedly, that it seems unwise to think I have any right to be showing people things in hopes that they'll realize them.

If I can give you some kind of knowledge of life you should listen.

Some of the best advice I've gotten was from William Hurt and Harry Connick Jr. I've really learned a lot from both of them.

Whether it's in the right way or sometimes the wrong way, you learn about life and its lessons.

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

I was young and naive. I didn't have the advice I have now and made mistakes. I didn't understand it was about attitude as well as ability.