Quotes about Personal Growth

I feel like any experience you can have which adds to your repertoire of things you've done and can add to your character - I'm willing to try.

You just try to learn and see what you can put in your repertoire, and that's what I try to do.

I wanted to do more and not be stereotyped. The roles coming my way were getting repetitive.

Take control of who you report to, what you do, what you create. Or start a business on the side. Deliver some value, any value, to anybody, to somebody, and watch that value compound into a career.

In elementary school, I think all my report cards said, 'Emily plays well alone.'

Just because I'm British and I represent London to the core, that doesn't necessarily mean I have to stay there.

A man's conflicts represent what he 'really' is.

'Idol' was a great experience. It was a great stepping-stone. I got to meet a lot of amazing people through that and learn a lot of great things. But afterward - that's what I tell a lot of people - it's up to you to represent it as an artist.

This record for the first time - feels like a record that really represents my whole entire life and instead of just a period of my life. And it is really kind of eye opening and it makes me feel really good to hear this record and hear all the years.

'Lose My Cool' is the second track on my EP dedicated to a stage in the grieving process. This track represents anger. I really bottled a lot up after my mother passed, and one day, I couldn't handle it anymore and just exploded on all of my friends and family. It was a very passive way of dealing with things, not very healthy.

A repressed person overcoming their repression always makes good music.

For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.

But most distinctly, I remember always saying to myself that when I get big, I'm not going to go to bed hungry, I'm not going to wear hand-me-down clothes.

There was a point when I told my daddy I didn't want to go hunting anymore.

I'm so glad I'm not 20 years old anymore. I was in a hurricane. I'm a lot calmer now. I don't cause destruction for myself and others everywhere I go.

I'd like to grow up and be beautiful. I know it doesn't matter, but it doesn't hurt.

In my past, I said and believed things that were wrong and - worse - hurtful to the LGBTQ+ community and their loved ones.

I'm hardest on myself. I'm my biggest critic. I ended up hurting myself a lot by doing that.

Criticism only hurts when there's some truth in it.

My biggest challenge for myself is to be the best father I can be and be the best husband I can be.

A lot of people hustle differently, and I was like, 'You know what, let me hustle and create, and let me have something to show,' cuz my hustle led to opportunity.

I've got my fair share of appreciation, and I've definitely grown as an actor, but I never expected to be an icon.

For me, your real age is not the age on your ID. That's just a date when you were born.

I had no fake ID and looked 14 until my first grey hairs came in a couple of years ago.