Quotes about Personal Growth

I think what's really important is to challenge yourself. You can very easily fall into the rut of, 'We know it works! We'll use that old chestnut.'

The world is always reinventing itself, and so should you. I used to say, 'I haven't started yet.' Sadly, most people don't develop their potential.

I don't watch TV. I don't watch anybody else's saga but my own.

Countdown came about at a time when we'd just had our first baby, and, if I'm entirely honest, it looked like an income - a salary - something I'd never had before.

I like a challenge. I get such a sense of satisfaction when I push myself beyond what I thought I could do.

I keep rediscovering myself with every film. It is great to be doing that, it gives great satisfaction.

My job is to create myself a career that I can go to sleep satisfied with what I'm doing.

I read an article in Forbes entitled 'Six Ways To Achieve Any Goal,' and it really inspired me and helped me get to where I am today. Now everything is completely different - but I'm still not satisfied.

I'm not satisfied in the sense I am not looking for any roles, but I do make peace with myself saying that 'I am not the best in the world.' But I have tried to give my best, and I want to get better.

I want to do something that is meaningful. After working for all these years, I want to do better as an actor now and choose roles that are challenging and satisfying.

I wasn't very academic at school, but the Wolsey Youth Theatre was the saving of me.

I can't be a savior. But I can be the best I can be.

I put pressure on myself all the time. I felt it so much with 'Sax,' but I had to just let go and enjoy it.

I didn't take lessons, and I don't know my scales.

I got to a point where I thought, now I have a choice. I can stay in theatre, or I can challenge myself and give this a go. And I want to challenge myself. I like to scare myself.

I was never really good in school.

I went to NYU undergrad, then went to AFI for grad school.

I used to care more about the score than I do now.

It was not so easy for me in Scotland in general.

I was fortunate to be able to go to the Scotland games with my grandad and it's scary to think I could now be playing in one.

I keep every script from every film that I ever made because it's like a workbook of that time in my life.

From 'Polytechnique,' I started to get scripts and after 'Incendies,' of course, it exploded.

Good scripts, which are apt for me, eventually come to me.

At 33 years old, I didn't have to work anymore. I had to search through 'What am I going to do for the rest of my life?' I wasn't ready to fly-fish for the rest of my life.