Aging & Wisdom Quote by Joe Lando

Lando’s line has the breezy, lived-in cadence of someone who’s spent a career being reinvented by other people’s scripts. “There’s an old saying” is a quiet credibility move: he borrows the authority of folk wisdom so he doesn’t have to sound preachy or personally aggrieved. It’s a way of making advice feel communal rather than confessional, the kind of phrase actors deploy in interviews when they’re talking around something raw (a canceled show, a stalled project, aging in an industry that treats time like an enemy).

“This too shall pass” is often marketed as comfort, but its real power is its double edge. It promises relief from hardship while also warning that the good parts don’t get to stay, either. That ambiguity fits show business perfectly: applause fades, roles evaporate, relevance is rented. Lando’s add-on, “and change is good,” tries to resolve that unease by reframing impermanence as opportunity. It’s not a philosophical proof; it’s a coping strategy that turns volatility into virtue.

The subtext is pragmatic resilience: don’t cling, don’t catastrophize, keep moving. Coming from an actor, it reads like a professional ethic as much as a personal mantra. Your identity can’t be welded to any single gig or era, because the market won’t allow it. So you metabolize transition into growth, even if you have to say it out loud to make it true.