Quotes about Personal Growth

I was a serial monogamist.

I learn from my family. And it's not like I learn from them on the sets only.

I left it for seven years before going back on stage. I know now not to leave it so long.

I think at 17, if I'd have seen a show that was really geared towards a woman's sexuality and her finding that and not the male, and not the woman being sexualized, it would have been so interesting to see that growing up.

I think everybody, at some point, rather feels that they have to shake themselves up somehow.

I don't know what would have happened to me as a writer if I had gone to England and shaped my life out of England. Of course, I will never know, but I think I prefer what did happen.

All the moments I've had in the last 10, 15 years as a player have maybe shaped me to where I am today. But the way I live my life, the way I think I want to be positive, happy, to have experiences that I can look back on.

Things for me have quite changed after 'Kabir Singh,' and I am happy with the way things are shaping up.

I've definitely grown a lot as an individual, as a man, and as a father, and that perspective needs to be shared and put out there.

I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves.

I've come a long way from the area where I grew up in Sheffield. It's been a journey, but I've fully enjoyed it.

I was a shy kid and acting did bring me out of my shell during high school.

I was someone who used to live a sheltered life.

I actually did use to sell shoes.

Weirdly, even as I became more confident as a writer and as a person, I completely lost faith in my own ability to shop for clothes.

For years, I looked down on my mother for shopping at Asda, and now I feel very ashamed of it.

I love to go out. I can go out shopping with myself. I love to do things alone. I spend a lot of time with myself.

I think when you're 17 and you're angry, you're angry about very short-term things. And there's nothing wrong about writing that record. It's a very real record to write; it's the realest record I could write when I was 17. The problem is, when you're 28, it's not the same thing; it can be a put-on.

One does make mistakes and the best thing for any individual is to learn from those shortcomings.

I have a lot of shortcomings. I'm aware of that. I work on those things.

As an actor, I obviously want to do lead roles but over a period of time, one gets prepared to carry a movie on your own shoulder.

I sleep five hours, I get up at 4 A.M., I take three or four cold showers a day. I do things differently.

It was a hard decision to leave Norwich, and you have to take into account a lot of things - could I make the step up? Do I want to have another season of really showing what I can do?

I never gave much thought to anything since I was 22 years old, when I got into the arts, so when Larry David came to my house in 2000, I didn't even think about it - I just thought about showing up on the set.