Joseph Roux Quotes

What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

When I turned 30, I realized how ignorant I really was. I always thought I had a very accomplished life.

My life experience has made me realise what's important and what is not.

I've learned a lot. I've seen a lot. I've grown a lot.

Back when I was an idealistic 18-year-old on my way to Chicago, I might have believed that being on the side of virtue would guarantee a good outcome. These many years later, I know better.

Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.

In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps; has no harvest from it, but carries the burden of age without the wages of experience; nor knows himself old, but from his infirmities, the parish register, and the contempt of mankind. And age, if it has not esteem, has nothing.

The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

I am so enriched because so much has happened in my life. The way I can express myself is because of the life I have led. It's only when you experience life can you emote it.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

When you're young, you just go banging about, but you're more sensitive as you grow older.

Life experience is what defines our character, even if it means getting your heart broken or being lied to. You know, you need the downs to appreciate the ups. Going on the adventure or taking that risk is important.

People become more interesting from about 25 - they develop character and their personalities come out.

In my long and difficult and mature life, I have come to learn that the less I know about acting and the more I know about everything else, the better I'll be at both acting and living.

Wisdom begins at the end.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

I think we are a product of all our experiences.

The longer you live, the smarter you get because you've been around. You've seen things. You've gone through different emotional experiences in your own life, and hopefully, you understand things better. And that makes you a better actress.

Once you get older, you get a little closer to yourself, intimate.