Quotes about Personal Growth

I am that 'everyman' in that I have made every mistake you can make in your career and in your personal life. But I am a survivor.

I have a different perspective on the world than the way I looked at the world when I was 20. I was kind of naive. I'm a cancer survivor, been working in this industry for a time, and older with more opinions, more experience.

You know that book 'Quiet: the Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking', by Susan Cain? That's like my manifesto. The older I get, the more I think I could be a hermit.

You come to these thresholds in your life where you need to remember why you do what you do, to reconnect with yourself. When I look back at something like 'Raw Like Sushi,' I think I was very much in the right place at the right time.

I've had a family my entire adult life; I started raising kids when I was 21. I suspect that being part of a family has probably informed my life as a writer as much as anything else has.

I was always the person who would make the mistake. I was the one who would get suspended from school.

Once you climb to another level, you have to figure out how to sustain it.

I swear, I have not played 'Dare Iz A Darkside' damn near since I did it. Seriously!

'South Pacific' - I really learned a lot. I swear I like to say that during 'South Pacific,' I went from being a girl to being a woman.

My whole life growing up, both my parents told me not to swear like a sailor. After college, I recall there was finally a time where I swore, and neither one of them was correcting me, and I felt so relieved. I thought, finally; I can finally be myself and not get yelled at.

The thing that got me to change was when my kids would come and tell me I was swearing on TV, so I knew I wanted to make a change.

I am certainly not drama-free in my life, and I used to be a lot more feisty, but I have arrived at a place where I really try to not sweat the small stuff anymore.

My high school girlfriend would ask if I finally learned how to unbutton the back of a sweater!

I think, a lot of my career and my life before I went to Sweden, I felt like I was trying to be someone else.

Trying to find the limit of yourself and the limit of the car and sometimes to exceed it and see the real limit - if you find that sweet spot and are able to repeat it, it is one of the best feelings.

It was kind of a hard lesson when I figured out that not everybody is going to be kind, be sweet. So I've learned that I am never going to make everybody happy. There's always going to be someone who can't stand the way I write, and I can't take that personally.

I love my son. He's a great soul. He's a sweet person, but events that have happened to him in his life, some of his own making - as a parent ,you really can't take full responsibility for the destruction that can happen to a child.

I have a lot to show as an actor, and I will take my own sweet time for that.

When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.

You want to be in control of a lot. You grow up. You sink or swim. I suppose I swam.

I wanted swimming to be something that I loved, something that I was motivated to do for myself.

After my cancer diagnosis, I really took my swimming to a new level.

I've gradually gained more confidence swimming for distance in the open sea, but I still return to the rock pools.

I was a swimsuit model, and I got bored. Acting was challenging. It was very hard and intimidating. We choose to do things in life sometimes that scare the crap outta us. Performing in front of people was my challenge.