Joel Edgerton Quotes

I've met people who are baffled by children, as though they were never children themselves.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can't be naive.

As a kid, you don't know what's going on at the time. But once you get older, you start to realize it.

I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.

Watching children grow up, you learn a lot about life and about being a better person - you learn a lot about what's really important in the world and what isn't.

Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget.

Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through another's eyes or heart.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

I love kids. I was a kid myself, once.

Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view.

I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

I guess the older I get, the more understanding and forgiving I've become.

I think as you get older, you tend to think of teenagers as really young.

I think as you get older, there are things that there's just no light side to, but you know, I guess the more you empathise with people, the more empathy you have, the less you are able to see the lighter side.

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.

Adults are obsolete children.

It's a terrific privilege to be able to see into somebody else's life.

I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.

The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.

Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?

It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.

You have to treat people gently because we're all in a process. What might seem like a good idea to somebody at 21 is probably not going to seem like a good idea at 50, but you don't know that until you get there.

As far as my mindset changing, I see myself having more empathy in my older age.