Casey Affleck Quotes

I learned from my past.

Looking back, I made my mistakes and I understand and learned from them.

As an individual, I've learnt a lot about life - some things that proved to be helpful and some things I wish I never knew.

Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.

I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

Sometimes you don't understand what you're going through until you're on the other side of it.

And maybe I'm a little smarter now than I was before for all the stupid things I've done.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

I learn from each experience, and I take it for what it is and gain what I can.

I have many regrets and things I wish I could go back and change, but I have also worked hard and tried to improve myself.

I've learnt from my life experience.

I remember some of the biggest mistakes I have made really, really well.

I have learned from my mistakes and become older.

I made so many mistakes when I was younger.

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.

Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

Life's experiences, whether they be pleasant or unpleasant, torturous or excruciatingly wonderful and blissful, you know, season you somehow and you learn from them.