Quotes about Personal Growth

I was not confident about my hair before films happened. But today, my hair is something people like the most in me.

My goal is to get better every year and statistically that has happened in a lot of different things.

It wasn't sexual in its element. I wasn't being exploited. I was doing what happened. It was very challenging because I played Phyllis from 15 years old to 53 when she died of breast cancer.

I think people are better for having learned, even if they aren't happier.

'Showgirls' was a critical point in my life. I had my head handed to me. At 21 years old, I had to find my self-esteem again. It was a very hard time.

The hard times that I've been through have made me the man that I am.

I have gained good experience but at the same time had hard times as well.

I had a lot of growing up to do. A lot of times, I learned the hard way.

Basic training was hard, but I made it - because I wanted to be the best me. Sometimes you have to learn that being the best you is being the second best you. I learned the hard way that the army doesn't want people who always come first. Otherwise, there would be only one person in the army.

I remember I had to go and ask my mom for groceries sometimes because I wasn't the best person with budgeting. I had to learn the hard way, but you live and learn. It builds character and strength.

My view is that you have to deal with who you are. It's hard work, in a way, but somebody has to do it.

I am harder on myself than anyone else could be.

If you grow up fat, you have to try harder.

When you first start, you just want to get a job. It goes from that to really deciding what kind of work you want to do and what kind of actor you want to be - and it only gets harder.

You wouldn't wish hardship on anyone, but when it comes, you would be crazy not to see the huge growth that will come from it.

Everybody goes through hardships but hardships make you the person you are, and I feel that is important.

You've got to take responsibility for your own actions. We all know people who reach rock bottom. However much that they're told that what they're doing is harming their own life or whatever, you cannot make someone do it unless that person reaches the point where they know that they have to deal with it themselves.

When I was a child, I would draw these little stick-figures, and my mom would put them up all over the loft and tell me how wonderful they were. Then you get out there into the harsh reality of the world, and you realize not everybody loves every little thing you do the way your mom did.

When I entered Harvard, my background was mostly combinatorics and algebra.

I used to hate playing Seattle shows.

I hate birthdays.

I hated country music growing up, but it gets in your bone marrow, kind of like a disease.

I hate comparisons, just as I hated being compared to my brother and vice-versa.

Rolodex of Hate' is basically how I ended up being so hateful. It's a look inside.