Joanna Kulig Quotes

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

When we're 16, we have lots of heavy thoughts. And these are the heavy thoughts, where, when we're in our 30s, we look at 16-year olds and sort of scorn it.

When you're 18, 19, you think you know everything, but you have no clue about anything.

We all are so serious when we are younger.

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my 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.

You never expect anything when you are 20 because you think that you'll never get older.

I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life; I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that.

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

As you get older, you think about things differently from when you do in your twenties, when you think you'll live forever.

Adults are obsolete children.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.

You couldn't pay me enough money to go back to being 20. So many tears; what a nightmare it was. It's much better being older.

The burdens of childhood are as hard to bear as the crosses that weigh us down later in life, while the happinesses of childhood are tame compared with those of our maturer years.

We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.

When I was younger, I was kind of fearless. I think it takes more courage to do things when you know more. I was completely naive, and I was like, 'Why can't I do anything I want to do?'

It's funny: 'Next Thing' was written in a time of my life when I was actually really naive and thought that I was wise.

How can you sing a line like, 'I've fallen out of love' when you're 18? You need to experience something of life before you can sing it.

I think I'm a little less naive than SpongeBob can sometimes seem to be.

Back when I was an idealistic 18-year-old on my way to Chicago, I might have believed that being on the side of virtue would guarantee a good outcome. These many years later, I know better.

I wasn't in any hurry to grow up and become this worldly person.

I've calmed down, certainly, from the days of being 18, but I'm still having a good time.

Of course you do things differently in your 30s and 40s than in your 20s.