Quotes About Growth

When I was younger, when I was at school, I did read a lot of fiction. I think as you get older perhaps you're interested in essays and biographies and things like that. I think it's just important to just read as much as you can.

I'll remember my life as pre-'Lady Bird' and post-'Lady Bird.'

I was born in Birmingham, and then I moved to Rotterdam when I was about five/six and then came back when I was 14.

My son's birth was pretty life-shattering, in good ways and bad ways. I realized that I needed a doula because I'm not close to my mom, and I don't have a lot of people in New York.

I was born on Dev Anand's birthday so I believe... the older I get, the better I become.

I always knew that good stuff would come along when I was older. So when I was 18, I longed to be 30; when I was 30, I longed to be 50. I've always looked forward to my next birthday.

In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.

I always try to work on my birthday.

I'm just never getting there. I'm getting round to it. I'm beginning to understand it a bit more.

You have to try things you're really afraid of, even if you pee yourself a little bit.

You can always be a little bit better.

You can either get bitter, or you can get better.

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

I've never been bitter.

I was briefly bitter.

Why would I ever be bitter and negative and focus on the past?

All of us make mistakes and one learns from the bitter lessons of the past.

Wisdom is learned through experience, and sometimes experience is hard and bitter.

I can't sit around and be bitter all the time. I have to go out and create my own little world, one that won't change when I'm not ready for it to.

Experiences in life are supposed to make you better, not bitter. If one marriage doesn't work out, it's not necessary that the second one won't.

I'm a masochist in some ways. I look for things that I think I can't do, then, for some bizarre reason, I really want to do them. Maybe one day I'll take the easy route.

As an adult, I can't blame my parents any more.

I feel happier about things, I don't blame myself over the losses.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: 'Beach Blanket' was one of the most important experiences of my whole life. It's part of me.