Quotes About Growth

Acting, according to me, gets better with time and age. The more experiences you have in life, the more you have seen, the better equipped you are to deal with complexity and bring out the depth in characters.

Every actor wants that - to have a great character and then continue to add more into the depth of his life.

You can measure a man's capacity by the depth of his mistakes.

The simple fact of being a human being is you migrate. Many of us move from one place to the other. But even those who don't move, and you stay in the same city, if you were born in Manhattan 70 years ago, you're born in Des Moines 70 years ago, you've lived in the same place for 70 years, the city you live in today is unrecognizable.

I wouldn't describe myself as a master of anything.

A lot of people think they need to give up nature to become adults but that's not true. However, you have to be careful how you describe and define 'nature.'

I just worked with Sofia Coppola and that was amazing. I learned so much from her. I can't even describe how much fun I had.

From the day I got out, it was an evolutionary process. I was sick for, like, two years - that's the best way I can describe what was happening with me. But as time went by and I finished law school, it became clear to me that I needed a platform.

Obviously, you're a better writer at 31 then you are at 19. Hopefully, you're also a better human being and better at describing reality.

It's different if you're self-fed by a culture such as the U.S. where it's so rich, you don't have to look outside. Everything's already there. But when you grow up in the desert, you have to be looking all over for inspiration.

People deserve to see progress.

You have to learn to believe you deserve love. And I'm getting there. I'm starting to believe it.

Every child, and every person, deserves a chance to make something of themselves.

I needed to really grow up myself so I could be the woman that my daughter deserves.

I certainly don't think I'm deserving of taking up space forever as a human. There's a whole generation of people yet to be born that are going to be so much more evolved than I am. I don't want to take up space. They're going to be better equipped to make the world a better place than I am.

I was an absolutely untalented designer.

I'm a designer, and for me, things are always evolving, and such evolution is necessary.

I do not want to say I'm a product designer. I've been trying all my life to not be categorized, to learn something and then to forget about it.

For me, the burning desire has always been about building what my family had.

I'm going to ask one question for everything that comes across my desk, which is, 'How is this going to create jobs?'

I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.

I desperately wanted to go to drama school and after that I've always been delighted to be offered employment - to view everything that comes my way as a chance to get better.

I despised basketball for a long time.

I've ended up becoming my mother in some respects, despite my eight years of analysis!