Quotes About Growth

I think my drive to work has gone up a bit since I've gotten older.

It's weird how your perspective changes. At the start of your career, you think, 'I just want to do cutting-edge work that makes people think.' Now, I would do a blockbuster in a heartbeat.

I write for teens partially to work out whatever it was that I needed to from my own teenage years.

In a total work, the failures have their not unimportant place.

Christians already? It seems to me that it takes a lifetime of work.

I'm a lot easier to work with now than I have been in the past, for sure.

You know. Life's short. If you don't try new things, you'll never know what you're best at. And you can only make time for new things by quitting the things you know don't work for you.

I think anybody starting any new career needs work.

If you are unknown, you can work better! Deserted soils of the mountains create the most beautiful flowers!

I'm a little bit of a glutton for punishment, especially when it comes to work. I don't mind a bit of suffering. I think it's in suffering that we realize our best selves.

As I grow and get older, mature a bit, and work on my big boy voice a little bit, I definitely want to direct.

I just work in order to improve myself as an actor which is what I've always done.

I learn the whole time. I think it would be dull if I thought I was going to work and wouldn't find something new. We always learn.

We all have a path to take; sometimes it's hidden under the weeds, so you might have to work a little.

I was fortunate to work with Corigliano for a few years in the mid nineties. Meeting and working with him during those formative years was an important experience.

My goal is to work. That's the goal of most actors or performers: to work and keep working, and do the best you can, and keep growing and changing, trying to improve your craft.

I don't see my work as being all that personal. I've used my personal experience in the world, of course, or at least my way of looking at the world. But I think that's changed as I've gotten older.

I couldn't recommend more that people put themselves in a situation where they can see a lot of work that they admire, and for free.

Sometimes you meet someone at an inopportune moment and it doesn't work out, but then you see them again five years later and you're in different places and it's a better time.

As an actor, you learn, every time you work.

Sometimes I look at some of my old work and I don't like it.

When I was young, I thought I was a god. Now, I just basically work on staying humble. My priorities changed. Just to be able to try to change them - that was frightening to me.

It's what's left in life, to work with interesting people.

By being able to play different styles I can get more work. I also learn so much from each of those experiences. It keeps everything from getting stale.