Quotes About Growth

After doing so many different roles, if you don't stretch yourself, there's no excitement left.

Chiron is so distant from the person I am; it's important for me to distance myself from that so people can understand that was the character. Hopefully, I'll find another opportunity that allows me to stretch like that again.

I like to stretch myself and push the envelope, so anything that's new or different or not of my daily routine, I am so for.

I try to always stretch myself to fit the characters that have been presented.

I like to take up something that is challenging. I like to stretch myself.

Fantasy is, of course, booming, and I think it's beginning to stretch its range as well.

I'm not as hard on myself anymore. I'm comfortable exactly where I am, though it took me until I was 34 years old! I still have things I'm really insecure about, but I've changed by loving me - C-section scars, stretch marks, and all.

I want to stretch myself as an actor.

You don't pass up roles that give you the opportunity to stretch and to grow.

I think every album you have to stretch further and further, give people another piece of you. But then I always try to deviate from the norm.

But as an actor you do want to challenge yourself and step outside what you have done in the past and that what I like to do, I like to jump around and try different things and stretch myself.

I try and open a few doors to the mind, encourage people to embrace change and to stretch their capabilities.

I should say that generally I'm a pretty happy person, but as soon as I'm done with a project, I'm usually not happy at all. I feel a little empty and strange. I begin to think about how I can get better, stretch more artistically and intellectually. My biggest worry is getting complacent.

I want to learn. I want to stretch my muscles as a director and work under different circumstances.

I like doing roles that stretch me.

I was actually not some sort of a child prodigy by any stretch.

I do think that there are certain parts, if you are lucky enough to play them, that are bigger than you, and they stretch you. I don't think you become a bigger person, but you develop certain muscles you didn't have before.

When you learn, you grow. You have to stretch, and it's not easy. You know, if you're working out your muscles, if you're doing whatever, it's gonna hurt a little bit.

I've seen women afraid to stretch for things. They avoid opportunities they don't feel qualified for yet. Instead, they should grab risky opportunities that will force them to grow on the job and learn to do it.

Every person wants to stretch himself and widen his audience. Since Hollywood has got more exposure and is shown all over the world, it's obvious that every actor would want to do an English film and explore himself.

As an actor, I'm always so excited about those things that I get to stretch my legs and really get to do something that's hard to do.

Sometimes in film and television, I don't have the opportunity to play roles that really stretch and challenge me.

A new idea - whether it's a way to collect solar energy more efficiently or a cheaper way to desalinate sea water or a new seed to boost the amount of food we can grow - can stretch the physical resources we have, or even multiply them. And the ideas themselves don't ever wear out.

We have trouble feeding, providing fresh, clean water, medicines, fuel for the six and a half billion. It's going to be a stretch to do it for nine.