Quotes About Growth

Coming from my bedroom in San Antonio to this big world and going from singing covers off my laptop to making music in this nice studio, making professional-sounding music - it's just weird.

I think I have to laugh about the fact that I grew up in public. All these weird stages in my teenage years are documented. Why did no one tell me how terrible some of those outfits were?

I'm viewed as this weird, crippled character. But you got to take your lumps.

One week I was in school and the next I'm at Leavesden Studios in Dumbledore's office reading scenes with Daniel Radcliffe. Weird. And terrifying for such a huge 'Harry Potter' fan.

I'm obsessed with my 20s. I buy things that I wanted in my 20s. It's weird; it's a weird thing that I didn't grow out of.

I did a weird thing when I was about 24. For four years I had written quite a lot of poetry, and I started reading through it and thought some of it was really good. So I burnt it all.

When we worked together for 'Band Baaja Baaraat,' Ranveer used to be very anxious and hyper on set. He used to do weird things, but now he is calmer, less anxious. He's a better actor now.

It's so hard when you're young to look at older people and understand that they have been where you are. It's the weirdest thing. You just can't get your head around that, can you? You can't get your head around the fact that someone who is 60 was once 16, if you're 16. But the fact is they have been, and they remember it.

17 is the weirdest age, because you can't figure out if you want to grow up or be a child.

In the weirdest way possible, I would rather be losing games but seeing a performance that suggests it is going to come good.

Ever since I started all of this TV weirdness, I just tried to make each year better than before professionally.

What happens when children reach puberty earlier and adulthood later? The answer is: a good deal of teenage weirdness.

I went through awkward, chubby, total weirdo phases.

I went from being the shy weirdo to the class clown in a couple of years.

If you love Tarzan, you can read stories from the 'Jungle Tales of Tarzan,' where he's just a kid, all the way up until he has a son of his own and beyond. Same with 'Batman' - you can follow him from Gotham, as a kid, to 'Dark Knight,' as a cranky old weirdo. I really love that.

I think definitely people know me from playing creeps and weirdos, and I'm definitely looking to expand my range.

I got into performing fairly young and went from, like, a shy kid to a total weirdo.

I was the class weirdo, but I didn't own that weirdo moniker until much later.

Welcome those big, sticky, complicated problems. In them are your most powerful opportunities.

No one is perfect, and criticism is always welcome and expected.

I'm open for possibilities. I'm open for choices. I always welcome new ideas. I'm always eager to learn. I'm never going to close my mind from learning.

I think it's my personality to overcome things, learn from them and become stronger, both personally and professionally. To be honest, I welcome those hardships.

Sometimes the hurdles aren't really hurdles at all. They're welcome challenges, tests.

Although circumstances may change in the blink of an eye, people change at a slower pace. Even motivated people who welcome change often encounter stumbling blocks that make transformation more complicated than they'd originally anticipated.