Quotes about Personal Growth

When you say a 'former child star,' you may as well say 'failed child star.'

My former wife is a truly wonderful person.

I don't have to forsake my career as a musician. I know how to write songs - that's not going to leave me. But I think it's good to explore some other avenues.

I want the kind of career where I can move back and forth.

I was broke into my forties.

Thanks to the magic word 'success,' which changes anyone's fortunes for good, I am not the same Sudha as I was seven years ago.

I've been disrespectful over the years in my career because I was living a young, turnt up life. So I've said a lot of crazy things about a lot of stuff and looking back, I wouldn't take anything back, but looking forward, I wouldn't do it again.

Every single record I have is a fossil.

If I hadn't fought back, I might have been Gidget forever.

I have a great foundation, a great training foundation. But it took me a long time to let the training go.

I believe in building your foundation - if your foundation is not rich, then you are far from rich.

I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.

Sometimes, but the year I lived in France I started to write songs.

I was a conservative kid, but I had fun. I was in a fraternity and stuff. I wasn't a player - that's for sure.

With FutureLearn there are so many free courses and we like learning all the time.

The people that have inspired me the most were dancers and choreographers. Even growing up, if I dealt with any pressure to be a certain way, I knew that as an artistic lane, dancing was the one that was a little more freed up - like, no one in my family is really doing that; I can be that person.

I don't think I will ever understand what freedom means, but I am enjoying learning.

Growing up in the Raleigh theater scene was a big factor in developing the ability, which I have now, to be freely me.

You do not start by working on society; you start by yourself to be a freer person and a more independent person.

I think that, as you get older, you want to be freer rather than more bound.

There are individuals who can support you, but frequently, you have to risk putting yourself out there - and sometimes you just have to push.

I don't want to be forty-five and still a freshman.

My friends and family would say I'm in an arrested mental state of development.

Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.