Quotes about Personal Growth

That year of modeling, I grew up a lot - I was alone in New York and just grinding and making it work, and I feel it kind of prepared me for the responsibilities of being an actor alone in L.A. and taking care of yourself.

It has been quite a journey from Miss India to modelling and acting.

I think modelling helped me. I was very shy and self-conscious when I went to college, and I think in some ways modelling exacerbates those things - because it's all about you being the centre of attention - but it also helped me travel.

I'm quite competitive. Not with other models but with myself. I have to win.

No, I don't think I have the same body type as the other models in shows. No, I don't think I am the best at any given show. Yes, I want a unique walk, but I also know I have to improve.

Not all of us are born with the same role models and grasp things the same way.

I have role models, but I take the attributes of the people that I admire, and I use them to create my best self.

I experienced different things growing up as a child that helped me. That helped mold me into the man that I am now, to the athlete that I am now.

I have learned to be molded by God into the person He wants. I want to help and encourage others to be the best they can be.

I had D minuses in chemistry and all of the sciences, and now I'm known as a molecular gastronomist.

I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.

I was 24 when Samori was born. His mom was 23.

My mom was only 21 years old when she had me, and my dad was in his mid-20s.

I want to invest time in creating moments for myself.

I chose to go down a very dark place, and I can't change that, but those moments have served as an education for me.

My second daughter's birth stopped time. My world lost its momentum in revolving towards goals and dreams.

I started as a mommy blogger, and it's been really great.

When I started on the 'Burnett' show, I was just out of high school, and when we went off the air, I was 28 years old, married with two kids. At that point I felt I really wanted to be mommy to my children. But I found that after a year and a half, I really missed the part of myself that was an actress.

Writing 'Monitor Mix' was a very edifying and inspiring few years.

I really want to help people because it seems to be there's this mental block and people think in order to lose weight you have to give up things in your life that are good - and that just isn't true. They feel like they've got to turn themselves into a monk.

It could get saturated or monotonous if I would do the same characters again and again. That is why, to save myself from that feeling, I take time out to choose roles that excite me.

I was a monster, a problem child.

Once, as my New Year's Resolution, I telephoned the Extenze Male Enhancement hotline every day for a month.

I started working at Apple about 18 months after I bought my Apple II.