Quotes about Personal Growth

Now I don't look at life where I'd say, 'Oh gosh, my life's over if I don't have films anymore.' My approach is that there's so much more for me to do.

You gotta mature, you know.

You gotta do things your own way. You have to find your own path. You have to take what appeals to you and leave all the rest.

I like making songs up. Whether or not they're great songs or good songs, whatever. It's something I've always done, and I definitely feel like I've gotten better at it.

I have not changed much. I haven't gotten a big ego or anything.

Live a life of grace. You'll be a better person for it, and so will your children.

I always felt you could age with style and grace, or you could age in denial and hold on to issues and never push through.

I didn't go to the 12th grade... I stopped at 11.

The first long chapter of my career was almost entirely theater so that, by the time I was 30, 35, I sort of knew who I was as an actor, and I was gradually learning who I was as a human being.

It took time, and it happened gradually, but by the time I started college, I felt truly comfortable with my body.

I think that anybody gradually learns the things that go deeper than his own heart.

I was going through a divorce, and I had a lot of reading I was doing, and I developed what was probably a serious anxiety problem - because I was about as poor as you can get, in graduate school, and trying to make my work and keep my head above water.

I graduated college with a 3.5 GPA, when I came into college barely able to get in.

I went to college because I felt like I was supposed to. I graduated from public high school and I did all the things that I was supposed to do.

I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing.

When I started law school in 2010, I would have called myself an atheist. When I graduated law school in 2013, I was exploring my faith again. A lot changed in those three years.

After I graduated from high school, I was like, let's see what happens. I took the time to develop my artistry and my songs, and tried to figure out who I am and what my message is.

You know when I was a high school student I wasn't a very good student. Upon graduation we were asked if we would become a full working adult or go to university. I decided to go to film school and still to this day I try to avoid being a full working adult.

I should be better with my grammar and set a better example for my kids. Just not sure that ain't gonna happen.

I started at Grand View and all the England stuff. I just wanted to learn and get better, and that's kind of what the experiences were.

I used to eat under my grandmother's dining room table. I wouldn't eat at the table ever until I was about 10.

We'll probably live 20 more years than our grandparents did. The question is, what are you going to do with those extra 20 years?

The Tamil audience has accepted me and given me a place to establish myself. I'm not taking things for granted... I've learnt the language.

As an actor, you want to do different things. You don't want to do same kind of stuff. I like the characters I play to have a graph.