Quotes About Growth

What I think about is about the opportunities that Mike Shanahan gave me as an inexperienced coach. I think about watching a Kyle Shanahan work. Just seeing the stuff he was running, his approach to different scenarios, and getting another understanding of what you can do as an offense... all of that helped me grow.

I'm not worried about offense. I've always had that, but I can get better defensively and that in turn will make my offense better.

Every year, you try to evolve a little bit. You try to introduce new elements to your offense.

In 'Gran Torino,' I play a guy who's racially offensive. But he learned. It shows that you're never too old to learn and embrace people that you don't understand to begin with. It seems like nobody else got that message, I guess.

The only problem that I had in my younger years and in college was not knowing if I had the confidence on the offensive side to just take over.

For 35 years, I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren't funny. Some of them weren't appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.

I have always regretted the dumb and offensive comments I made in my 20s on atheism and homosexuality.

When I was younger, I initially hated football because they put me on the offensive line because I was the biggest kid.

I was 20 years old and felt I had a lot to offer, even to myself.

In general, there will likely be an expanding market around mobility management services that could offer incremental job growth.

Whatever I have come to offer, I have come to offer and it may or may not be connected to anything that has happened in the past.

I think I've got a bit more to offer than just dancing. It might just be me that thinks that, but it's worth saying.

Some people become artists for whatever reasons. Some of it's frivolous. And I don't think there should be any shame on that, but I think there comes a point in life where you want to offer more.

When you first start working, you take whatever job is offered, because you have to build your resume. But you don't think about what you're building.

Because I'm now successful, what I'm being offered as an actor is more and more of the same.

The movies and the parts I'm being offered are becoming better and better.

I get offered work these days.

Most of the time, I do what I'm offered, but after I worked for it. I think I try much harder for the things that scare me and inspire me. The things that scare and inspire you are things that are different from what you did before.

My experience has offered me the sensibility that encourages me to try newer characters.

I choose my work based on what is offered to me. If I see if my role can change the way the show will shape up, I come on board. If me being there in a show will make no difference, then I won't bother being part of it. I am inclined to do things that I haven't done before.

My live show experience has not been good. It's just because I haven't had a band or anything. I played a show in Santa Ana that I'm just not proud of at all. It came out of the blue, and I kind of freaked out and took the opportunity because it was the biggest thing I've ever been offered.

I just realized I wanted to do more than ballet. I was offered an apprenticeship, so I was about to join a company and drop out of high school, and then it hit me: I didn't want that anymore.

I have been fortunate enough to be offered characters and projects that challenge me and that are different from the characters that I have played.

But I'm going to be a real good boy and take it day by day and try to concentrate on what's most important to me, and that's offering women a service.