Quotes about Personal Growth

Why would a lazy guy become a parent of five? Then again, why would creative people who inherently don't like change and criticism become writers, actors, or comedians? There's something about this process. I joke about it: My kids have made me a better person, and I only need, like, 34 more of them to be a really good guy.

I appreciate my journey, but I don't want that for my kid. Not any of it. It has nothing to do with whether I liked my childhood. I really did. But as a parent, that isn't the childhood that I'd provide.

I really don't know how to tell you what it feels like to be a parent.

I've had this conversation with friends who have had challenging relationships with one or another parent. The only thing I can say is what I feel: The other person isn't going to change. That is who they are.

Parenthood is such a lesson in self-sacrifice.

I do feel like I've changed a great deal, but not anything outside of the norm of what most people experience as they grow and they take on the responsibilities of parenthood and being more engaged in their business and all that stuff. I think it's a pretty natural evolution.

The writing became a hobby in the background: it took a back seat to parenthood and being a person and being a human being.

Everything that happens to me in a day enhances my parenting.

I am always trying to evolve, so I like to read parenting books and things like that.

Growth doesn't hurt. This is what I've learned. In the end, it doesn't hurt. It hurts while it's happening. But in the end, you know, for life, for parenting, and for the arts, it's not a bad - not a bad thing to try for.

Parenting is different for everybody.

The problems I had with the Paris Opera Ballet are a thing of the past.

You listen to Charlie Parker or John Coltrane before they found their voice, they sounded different. And when you listen to them after they found their voice on their instruments, they sound more confident and in control. Artists have that, too.

Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.

Learning is not just a labour market or economic growth issue. It is an integral part of human development. We learn from birth to death.

I think every part of my body needs improvement.

The interesting thing about doing serial television is that the character is growing separate from you, the character and the show are growing, and you get to observe that and participate with it in a way that I think is actually really exciting for an actor.

Participating in Miss India was a paradigm shift and I had a blast.

I have become worldly-wise and mature after participating in 'Bigg Boss.'

It was almost two years after I left Capital that I put out the first one on Chrysalis and that was really instructive because it was no better in particular than any other record I'd done.

I wouldn't be where I am today without my mistakes. Particularly my mistakes. Exclusively my mistakes.

I can say that I had a particularly painful teenage-hood.

I'm more disciplined now. The days of late-night parties are over.

I moved on from the whole 'Playboy' thing five years ago and really never looked back. I'm not one of those girls who goes back to all the parties and things.