Quotes about Personal Growth

I realized that there is no fairy tale.

I don't consider myself to be a major talent, so the only solace I can take is to hope I'm growing.

In a dream world, it is to be able to continue picking and choosing projects that stand out to me and challenge me. Working with directors I look up to and alongside talented actors that push me to be better.

'The Big Chill' had a bunch of really talented actors, a great soundtrack, and the college connections that the characters shared. It's one of those movies I glean something different from every time I watch it.

Bieber's so talented, he needs to just be himself and be by himself and work on his craft. He has a lot of people around; he has to find the right team to help him make something that's going to stand alone.

It's never good to compare yourself to anyone, whether it's professional or personal. There is always somebody better, more talented and powerful out there. There is no point of getting sucked into all that.

I have very young looks, so it's easy for me to play high school, but I'm trying to stay away from high-school movies. As I get older, I'll try and broaden my talents.

A person has the right, and I think the responsibility, to develop all of their talents.

This relationship has helped me develop a strong sense of self; be more confident. Mihir's very proud of me, supportive and appreciative, and respects my talents and me as a human being.

Fairy tales, which teach a moral lesson, are about ourselves. Myth deals with forces greater than ourselves.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

In my experience, divorce takes you out for about 10 years, but you hear people talk about it lightly. The same with depression. You only have to have one good breakdown before you realize you need help. It's pretty frightening.

I try to take moments to get brain food - I read, I listen to talk radio - and fill my own self with learning.

Post my parents' divorce, when I was 10, my mother, Deepa Motwane, took up a job as a line producer with documentary filmmaker Shukla Das, who was a cousin of hers. When I was 17, she did a TV talk show and I helped her with research and assisted her as she was also producing that show.

I was a very quiet, shy child. I just became quite talkative in high school, in Grade 10 onwards.

The recommendation when I'm mentoring folks, I always tell them - and we talked about this last year - take a risk.

We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman.

Most people I talked to, they'd be like, your first is your worst, because you go on and everybody's probably done more than you, so you get that sense that they're on a whole different level. But they just made me feel like a piece of the family.

I know I've made mistakes, and sometimes I've talked about things too openly or directly. That wasn't good, and I've learned from that.

I took a lot of wrong decisions, and got talked into a lot of things. Of course, if I could go back in time, I might change some things, but wouldn't everyone? I have no regrets.

I've become so much more comfortable divulging things I've never talked about before, honing in on certain relationships that everyone can relate to.

Technology can be an enormous enabler. I'll give you one example. I have never really talked about this before, but I am dyslexic and I didn't find that out at school.

I am not into self-exploration. My family would lose their eyes in the backs of their heads if people talked about personal journeys or finding oneself.

You just don't wake up one morning and say, 'I'm going to be a talker. I'm going to be a braggart.' It's something you achieve over the years, and you get better at it. Obviously, I've gotten pretty good at it.