Quotes about Personal Growth

The more time you spend with any character, whether it's from a comic book universe or a really naturalistic universe, the more time you spend, the more that character just becomes another aspect of yourself.

My mother liked to command me to do things I found scary. I always wanted to stay home and read. My mother only ever wanted me to get away.

I think I'm working on being a lot more positive in my everyday life because I realize comments and things can hurt.

I'm no longer interested in being in big commercial films.

I've come a long way from my first commercials.

Because I was happy in my space, I was doing commercials, masala films, love stories... But somewhere as an actor I wanted to push myself to reach a large audience and play a different role.

I started writing songs later in life because I just couldn't commit to it before.

I'm finding that I tend to be one of those people who gets into very committed, long-term relationships, and then I really focus on that relationship and not so much myself.

Every year, I spend time to improve how I communicate.

There's no one who has more authority over my life than me. And I can learn things myself and how to communicate to other people and how to apply with the rules of life.

I don't really compare myself to anybody but just try to be the best I can be.

Compare yourself to yourself and say, 'How can I be better? How can I be the real me?'

I learned a long time ago through my dad that you shouldn't really compare yourself to others - just because that hampers how good you can be.

Face your front' is a saying in my parents' culture. 'Face your front, don't look left and don't look right.' Don't be comparing yourself to everybody else, yeah? Follow your own journey.

There's really no comparison to me. I try to add every level to my game.

By Year 11, I was a shell of myself. My mum was a teacher in my school, so she could see that I was dimming my light there in comparison to who I was at home.

There have been comparisons but I don't want to be compared with anyone. I want to be myself, with my own style and identity.

I've learnt I can compete with the best in the world.

I can say that I don't compete with others and only with myself because I do so many films.

We are competing against ourselves.

I don't believe in competing with other actors. I believe the only person you can compete is with yourself. You can only do better work compared to your earlier work.

Some of the time, I am competing with myself.

My greatest competition is, well, me.

I'm competitive with myself.