Francisco Goldman Quotes

When you get as old as I am, you start to realize that you've told most of the good stuff you know to other people anyway.

In life, we all learn from everyone.

I want to write about grown-up things.

All I have are my experiences, and I like to share my experiences to see if people could learn from them.

I've gotten away with a lot in my life. The older you get the more you realize you're not getting away with it, it's taking its toll somewhere. So you try not to put yourself in those situations. Part of the mysterious process called growing up. Some people do that better than others.

Novels teach you that actions have consequences. They help you grow up.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

I'm a grown-up now, and I value the training I had.

Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of wisdom.

The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Because I'm in an adult world and I'm really working, my age is just a number. It's not really who I am.

I'm a mature person.

When you're younger, you're trying to understand and make sense of what your parents are trying to instill in you, which is ultimately life experience. I remember being 17 and my dad trying to teach me the importance of responsibility.

You're never too young or too old to be a mentor.

I think all my life's story is condensed in my face. It is neither innocent nor coy. It speaks volumes.

My films, sometimes, have my own reflections of life. They have life lessons I've had that I put across in a humorous or satirical way.

I think there's a lesson in everything.

Some things I thought were important for a young man to know.

Now I got kids and I'm more wise now. Life means more to me than having fun. I'm more calm, more wise, and more cautious.

Everybody has a story. And there's something to be learned from every experience.

People say that crisis changes people and turns ordinary people into wiser or more responsible ones.

I'm always inspired by actresses who are older than me. Because I know that person has lived so much more life than I have. There's a whole other toolbox.

Those that have lived longer than us always have something to teach us, that we can take with us for the rest of our lives.

As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.