Quotes about Personal Growth

When you're with somebody for some years, sometimes you need a break from 'em. You grow in different directions. That's kind of what happened with me and the Eastside Boyz. They wanted to do different things than I wanted to do, so we separated.

It does make you a better director and a better actor.

Me and my dad are friends. We're cool. I'll never be disappointed again, because I don't expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that's how we get along.

If my dancing is a disaster - it doesn't define me as a person.

I've had some real hair disasters.

Although I was writing songs when I was younger, I didn't feel I had much of a clue as to what I was doing or how I was doing it. There are a few songs from my past where I thought, 'Well, that's pretty decent,' but I didn't have a discipline. I suppose I'm kind of a late bloomer.

When I think about football, I think about my love, my passion, what has football done for me as far as discipline, as far as learning how to lead. It taught me a lot about life.

It's really amazing when you discover how strong you actually are and what you really can accomplish.

This is a place where you can go, that you can feel safe and look inside yourself and discover yourself.

And so, I think when I got to college, you discover who you are and find yourself more than you did before.

You want roles that challenge you and that scare you a little and where you can really discover something, even about yourself, that maybe you didn't understand.

Like lots of people who say, 'I'm going to write a novel,' it's actually more comfortable to think I could write a novel than to discover that you can't.

Usually, I don't feel comfortable with a character until I've played him before an audience for several performances. It is not until after three months of performing that I learn to discover what I call 'all the nooks and crannies' of the person.

In order to press further with who you want to become, you have to take risks, put yourself out there... That's the only way to discover you're actually capable.

I discover a lot of things on my own.

I discovered myself!

It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment stage of that process and it's a happy place.

Being in your 30s is about discovering yourself and your body and enjoying who you are.

My movies had flopped but discovering theatre was perhaps the biggest things that happened to me at 22.

Every character, for me, is a new discovery.

Yeah, you can't discredit my come-up.

In college I was so mad I wasn't playing. The two guys in front of me were Billy Volek and David Carr, but I just realized that was a blessing in disguise, that I was so bad and I never played, so my brain's good.

Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

I dislike the word 'self-help.' Self-awareness, yes, but not self-help.