Quotes about Personal Growth

I would never shoot down any opportunity to challenge myself or stretch myself.

On every job you learn, on every job you should be looking to learn and every decision you make on the jobs you take, they should always try in some way, even if not in a huge way, they should in some way stretch you.

I've been trying to find out what my wheelhouse is as an actor. 'Gilmore' was my first job, so only from there did I have a chance to really experiment and see how far I could stretch; I went maybe a little too far in certain directions.

As you grow, you stretch. You become more, and you have more to give if you've lived and learned and experienced. And I try to stay healthy. I eat as healthy as I can. I drink lots of water, and I work out just about every day of my life.

I like to stretch myself, and playing a dance-hall hostess is quite a stretch, but I feel comfortable with it.

It's good to stretch your mind.

I think my rookie year I was just out there, I just wanted to be out there and have fun. Maybe my sophomore year I was thinking a little too much because I wanted to be perfect, but I think everybody goes through that stretch.

Since coming out of jail, I still made mistakes daily. Don't me wrong, I'm not an angel by any stretch of the imagination, but my mistakes are just normal ones now like forgetting to go to the shop when the missus asks or not putting the bins out, stuff like that.

I look for something that can challenge me or makes me ever so slightly afraid - fearful of how I am going to approach it - then I'll go for it. If the project appears linear or predictable, then I'll usually give it a miss. Anything that involves me being stretched as an actor, I go for.

Not everyone is born to run a $4 billion company. There is no magic formula. I've learned, and I've grown by learning. That's why I've enjoyed being in business so much: It's stretched me.

I have never begun a novel which wasn't going to stretch me further than I had ever stretched before.

I hope to always keep stretching myself and not stay in one box or lane.

Characters stretching their legs in some calm haven generally don't make for interesting protagonists.

When you're stretching yourself, as a role like 'Blue Jasmine' did for me, you risk falling flat on your face.

I try to hurt myself, to sprain something, writing every novel and story, because I'm stretching for something new and difficult that I haven't done before.

You go through your 20s sort of like a chrysalis in many ways, stretching into your own skin and trying to bust out of a cocoon.

I don't think that I could ever be a strict dad. I never grew up with anybody strict in my life... I'm not saying I'm a role model by any means or anything. I think the fact that I wasn't told what not to do all the time - my spirit kind of told me things that I shouldn't - I got to develop on my own. It's part of your common sense.

My parents were strict with school, strict with grades. I had piano classes, horseback riding, dance.

Strictly has been such a gift. It is so much more than I thought it was going to be.

I don't see myself going back to 'Strictly' as a professional in the same capacity as I started. But I'll definitely keep dancing.

2018 has been such a fantastic year for me: working on some hard-hitting documentaries, as well as 'Strictly,' has been a real treat.

I like to do things where you do learn something and go on a journey, such as 'Strictly Come Dancing.'

The reason I wanted to do 'Strictly' in the end is that you come out of it having learned something.

I've got a great life - my friends, my marriage, my career, my health - and I'm on 'Strictly,' and I'm learning to dance.