Quotes about Personal Growth

Living in the projects helped me with this role.

I like to do projects that challenge me, and hopefully in turn challenge the audience, or open your eyes to something you're not aware of.

Let me tell you, if I could pick the project of all projects, it would probably be Kate Gosselin because if I can help Kate find a man? I can help anybody!

I love my father, but I have worked to develop a separate and distinct identity in different projects I have worked on.

Most projects that I've done are really not about the project. They're about what's going on inside and around, that journey that we're all on, and what I can do to help that journey further itself and be of encouragement to somebody.

I got a divorce, and I felt like I finally started my career. I started making movies and projects that I just really believed in.

Currently I'm not a crazy ex-girlfriend, but I can't promise I won't be one again.

I guess I'm about ready to promote myself in a more human way. I don't feel quite so insecure.

If I had to do a lot of promotion as a kid, it would have been very intense. I'm really glad I got to go through high school, have a college experience, and have the last five years since then, just... being a person.

To cease to admire is a proof of deterioration.

I have had my share of relationships and broken hearts, so there has been a proper balance in life.

I think that, as an actor, you have to break out eventually, and if you do it properly, it can be something that's positive.

I was causing trouble in high school, and in order to get me to stop and to pass, they put me into theater, and I ended up winning a Shakespeare competition. All I had to do was imitate people properly, and I ended up going to the finals when I was about 16.

I love the English language, but I'm crap at it, so I might as well do what I'm good at. The same goes for my kids, who are also dyslexic. I won't pressure them to do anything. They've each got a trust and a mortgage-free property, which is a lot more than I had, so I know they will always be fine.

Conor is not emulating me. He has to be his own man and learn his trade from the start. He will fight in the amateurs and then, if it works, the pros.

As main protagonist, there's so much that you have to prove.

I wish I had put myself out there a little bit more and experienced people more instead of protecting myself.

My parents would love to keep me near. They're protective, and they want their little girl home, but I feel that a smart move would be for me to go to college in New York and continue modeling there.

I have been a part of this development, so I am very proud of it.

I know I'm not the best, but I'm proud of myself.

It's OK to want to feel beautiful - as long as you really do the work on yourself to be the kind of person you are proud of.

I'm not out trying to prove anything. I'm sort of finished with that, so I get to play in other sandboxes and try and figure out what I like and I'm interested in.

On paper, my history says that my future was not very promising. But through grace, I have the opportunity to prove that where you start is not where you have to end up.

I have nothing to prove to anyone but myself.