Quotes about Personal Growth

I don't compete with other discus throwers. I compete with my own history.

I had a very brilliant father who was not only intellectual, but was street-smart and very curious to boot. The day I found out that he didn't know everything, I grew up. It was a shock. I just thought that the man was the end-all of everything, and he knew the answer to everything. Then I found out I'd have to find out my own answers.

At the end of the day, I am not my dad and have my own journey to make.

Having been through the muck and mire, I've had my own brush with bad choices.

Certainly my time on 'Revenge' was great; it was a different character I'd never played before.

I arrived in Milan when I was 18. But my time in Italian football helped me to mature.

Every time I go in, me and my time, we're 0-0, and we're looking to become 1-0.

Once I could drive, I spent all my time in the city going to metal shows. I missed the first couple of Metallica shows because I was lame. By the time I got into them, they were playing places like the Kabuki.

I've done my time. I've done it as well and as respectfully as I think anyone can.

My confidence has been really building since my time at Espanyol.

It's just like, damn - I'm competing with myself.

I look in the mirror and see a few scars, but I like myself.

I love challenging myself, doing different things, and exploring different areas that I haven't been to or gone to before.

I kind of knew inside that I wanted to try comedy, but it was a mystery. How do you start? So when I hit 30 and I had done everything I wanted to do in journalism, so I went to a comedy class. I figured I'd learn how to do five minutes and see how it feels.

I was naive and ignorant. I'll never be like that again. But I can't go back. I've come out. I can't stick my head in the sand ever again.

She wasn't as naive and innocent as she was in the first season.

What you don't get necessarily at drama school is a gigantic mix of people. At university, there's people from every social background, and you get to go through that period of being naive and not quite sure who you're going to be.

Every day I don't Google my name, there's another beautiful day.

All the time I'm trying to evolve, I'm trying to do different things, bring new flavours to people, not just put my name on the something for the sake of it.

I love my name. I didn't used to when I was a kid. People called me Lucky Charms, after the breakfast cereal.

A lot of people out there are bullies, and they pick on people and call people names. You need to grow up from that, and you need to become a better person.

I became a bit of a jerk. A kind of a nasty jerk.

Baghban' happened with me when I was very new. I played a nasty daughter-in-law, to somebody I have idolised all my life: My Amitabh Bachchan.

While I was trying to save money to go to the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Australia I ended up getting all of this experience which meant that by the time I had enough money in the bank to go to school I didn't really need to go to school anymore.