Quotes about Personal Growth

Then there are the people who know me from the lectures. What I am really trying to do, what I need to accomplish at this time, is to fill in the gaps.

Discovering I'm gay just sort of happened much later in life.

When I was in a band after high school and in college, I didn't even play the guitar. I played the bass because I couldn't play lead, and I didn't have the gear.

Like my gender, sometimes things don't come out right the first time.

When critics called me a duplicate of my father, I knew I can't do anything about my genes but I ensured that I shed the romantic image and create my individual style.

I came late to the genre of folk music.

If a show is good, it helps people learn about themselves in some way and in some function. Whatever the genre is, if it's executed well, audiences grow and learn from it, and that's where their passion and enthusiasm comes from.

The best thing after my son is my work - and he taught me to be genuine.

What I desire most in my life is to become a better person. I genuinely want to be good.

Every quality I despise in George Bush is a quality I despise in myself. He is my worst self realized.

My eldest daughter Hiziya always makes fun of my German, and I laugh with her. I did not learn the language in school, but in my daily life, from other people.

It was hard to leave my boyhood club Arsenal, it's still my dream to play for Arsenal, but I know I have to put that on hold and go and play abroad to get some experience in Germany.

I used to say that I got to Germany as a boy but I left as a man.

I played in Belgium, in France and in Germany, which was very good - but England is very special.

I'm married now, so I have a life. I had to get a life. That's one thing I really had to do, you know. You do that kind of work on television series after television series and you don't have a life. So, that's part of what I did while I was gone, I got a life.

I think the mistake some people make is they try to change the man they love after they get married. You cannot change a person.

But I don't think there's any reason to get married again, especially after what I've been through.

I never thought I would get married. I didn't think I was that type of person.

I don't think I'll get married again. I'm not looking for it. What I can say about my divorce and my failed engagement is that I learned where my bar is.

There were many times when I had to emotionally come to terms with the fact that maybe I wasn't ever going to get married. And I started getting comfortable with that.

Everybody should get married - once. I was 25.

When you get married and have your own family, it gives you the opportunity to look back on your own childhood I suppose, but you learn on the job really.

The opportunities that I've been allowed to have just keep getting better.

The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm getting better and better at 'em. I really am.