Jack O'Connell Quotes

Everything that happens to me in my life, be it good or bad, it's all education, and it's important for that to become part of what you do. It all feeds the beast.

I take nothing away from my existence in the 'hood, because it sharpened my instincts. We had a different way of living that developed our survival instincts, and I use those to this day when I make films. You can't buy that.

You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.

I've grown up a lot, I'm on my own, and I've learned some valuable life lessons.

My teacher told me I'd never amount to anything. I left high school at 15, after one year. But my real teachers were all the people around me. And I was a good listener.

I've had some tremendous adventures, good and bad. It's part of the novel, and a novel isn't interesting if it doesn't have some good and bad. And you don't know what good is if bad hasn't been a part of your life.

Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge.

I ain't got much education, but I got some sense.

I learned how to navigate the world, and life's potholes, in Pittsburgh.

I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can.

I've seen the good, the bad, and the ugly. Lived it and I'm still here to talk about it and help someone else if I can.

In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.

In my life, I have made the occasional catastrophic choice, and it's just a case of moving on and learning from it.

I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it.

Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.

In my life I have always found ways of dealing with a situation.

The best place to find material is in real life. I've always maintained that it's not until the mid-20s that you have enough of a life to draw from. There's nothing better for a comic than to go through some bad stuff - and some good stuff, like getting married.

Life does throw some hard stuff at you as you get older, much harder. But you are more able to deal with things.

There is nothing I've been through in my life that I regret, or that I would go back and change. I feel like everything that happened - personally and professionally - I went through for a reason, and I learned from those things.

Oh my gosh, I'd give so much advice to a younger version of myself. I would say it really does get better as you get older. The things that mean so much, the things that seem like, you know, it's going to cause the end of the world, are all things that I've already forgotten.

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster.