Joel Edgerton Quotes

I'm not sure I'd go back and do anything over in my life. I've definitely had my fair share of failures and moments where I wasted my time or that of other people, but if I did those moments over, I'd have missed out on so many lessons.

Mature striving is linked to long-range goals. Thus, the process of becoming is largely a matter of organizing transitory impulses into a pattern of striving and interest in which the element of self-awareness plays a large part.

Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.

While most people turn 21 and decide to go out and party, I turned 21 and decided that I was going to become somebody that I never thought I could be: somebody who cares about herself and her body, her future, and her health.

I wasted most of my 20s being so frustrated I forgot to have fun. I was so concentrated on one thing - 'Must make movie.'

I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older, you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me.

This year has been full of lessons learned and soul searching and realizing I'm an adult. It's time to take responsibility and not take the easy way out.

Personally, my twenties were a complete waste of time. Professionally, I hope some good came of them.

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.

My memoir is about my time in film and the decision to leave Hollywood, grow up, and stop pretending.

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.

So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me.

I spent my 30s figuring out how to be a grown up, I guess. I loved my 30s! My 30s were really about being happy with what I was doing.

My 20s were a completely and utterly different time in my life.

It feels like as you get a bit older, you've worked out the things that are good for your life apart from with acting.

I could have been better. That's my goal now, to be better.

I definitely do live my life at a different pace now than I used to... I feel like I'm guilty of all the overindulgences of a guy in his 20s and early 30s could've gone through, but I look back on it with great fondness. I don't have a lot of regrets.

When suddenly your focus changes, you see the years going by and it's an extra reminder that you don't want to live life with any regrets.

I think I'm evolving, I'm always in search of bettering myself, how I can improve as a sportsman and as a person.

I think there's a lot of learning process in figuring out what things you want to do and shouldn't do. Maturing in that way is something that comes with experience and time.

When you're 22 or 23, you think the world revolves around you, and I felt that way for a long time. But I just turned 30, and I love it! You realize, 'Whoa, baby, you ain't all that.' And you're not! You're just a woman out there doing something she loves.

With Maurice suddenly going, I realised... I think I've matured. I don't take things lightly any more.

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

If I had one regret in life... it's that I was not more humble at an earlier age.

It takes time to be who you really want to be. It doesn't happen overnight.