Jim Broadbent Quotes

Youth is wasted on the young.

A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.

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.

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

It is the part of a fool to say, I should not have thought.

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

When you are young, you do a lot of stupid things.

People tend to repeat the same quotes at me that I said when I was 23. And of course, you say things then, and sometimes they're ill-advised.

So young and so wrong.

Being young and dumb, honestly, you pick up some bad habits.

Sometimes when you're young and a little more immature, you can overdo things or not really have your legs under you.

I was pretty immature, and some of it came from just wanting to have fun.

We’re all born idiots, and we only get over that condition as we get less young.

I wouldn't say that I dislike the young. I'm simply not a fan of naïveté.

They always say 'youth is wasted on the young' - there's something to that.

Too bad that youth is wasted on the young.

At least when you're young you're also stupid.

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

I feel old and vulnerable. I now realise that I knew nothing and know nothing, but back when my career was beginning, I thought I was a man when, in fact, I was a dewy-eyed boy who'd not seen an avocado or eaten a tomato.

I'm very mature for my age, but I'm also innocent in a lot of ways.

I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago.

Getting wasted is only OK when you're young enough to not know better.

The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.