Quotes About Growth

I think that when you emigrate, when everything you took for granted disappears, it's a kind of loss of innocence. When you're a kid, the world as you know it is just there. Suddenly, you emigrate and that's no longer the case. It's a break in reality that parachutes you into adulthood.

I used to be mouthy. It was all to do with being a northerner and from Manchester, which was suddenly a big deal when I was in my 20s. When I read some of the interviews I did back then, I cringe.

With Maurice suddenly going, I realised... I think I've matured. I don't take things lightly any more.

How do you build a relationship when you've hardly shared a word but suddenly share a child? How do you love a daughter you don't see for nearly two years? When does she become your daughter? How does she become your daughter?

What I try to do probably doesn't come out. What I've worked out what I do - I might not be right - is to do something very personal, and then suddenly I look at it, up in the air. I blow it up and look at it and then I come down again - a better man.

I've been quite a late developer on the clothes front, but I've suddenly realised it is one of life's joys.

I've always believed that if you are willing to play your age that you will work, so it's the thing of continuing to play your age and accepting it when you're younger and you suddenly realize, 'Oh, now I'm playing the mom,' 'Oh, I'm playing the grandma.'

I was always a bit old for my age, then suddenly I'm on set, working alongside the adults, skipping school completely for two years.

I grew up in Lincolnshire, trying to get the daughters of farmers and policemen to like me. It didn't go well until I got to college where, suddenly, there were different sorts of humans.

I got so much out of 'The To-Do List.' This is a joke that I say about myself sometimes, in terms of my film career: I feel like I'm always playing the kid in serious adult movies. So, for me, it was so wonderful to suddenly be working with other people my age who were doing this on film.

My agent Sue realised after 'Cold Feet' that I could have spent the rest of my life doing similar roles. So she was instrumental in moving me away from that.

I've gotten a lot more disciplined since dating Sue.

Life has took me on a journey, and through much of that journey, I didn't feel whole, connected, and grounded. So as a kid, everyone called me Sue. My daddy called me Susie Q. But through this journey, I've sort of risen to a place that I get this level of respect of Ms. Burton.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change... you will change.

I don't suffer of anything that I've lost.

Each project, I suffer like I'm starting over again in life. There's a lot of healthy insecurity that fuels this stuff.

I think we all suffer from guilt at some point in our lives, but for the most part, I never really regret, and I try to always remain positive.

I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.

You need to suffer to be interesting.

Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.

There's no doubt that relationships do suffer when circumstances change profoundly.

I think its time to change and balance the environment and growth. If we don't do that, we're going to suffer a hard landing one day very soon.

As human beings, we need to evolve with time, and if you fail to do that, your existence will suffer.