Quotes About Growth

I had a Saturday job in Barratts shoe shop at the age of 15.

For years, I looked down on my mother for shopping at Asda, and now I feel very ashamed of it.

When I was 8, my dad asked me if I wanted to audition, just for fun. I did just a little short film, and I liked it. I just kept doing it, and then I started getting bigger auditions for bigger roles.

I'm very proud of my work at Watford in what has been a short period.

The brain adapts very quickly. It is incredible how quickly we can adapt and what progress we can make in a very short time.

I think when you're 17 and you're angry, you're angry about very short-term things. And there's nothing wrong about writing that record. It's a very real record to write; it's the realest record I could write when I was 17. The problem is, when you're 28, it's not the same thing; it can be a put-on.

We all have shortcomings.

One does make mistakes and the best thing for any individual is to learn from those shortcomings.

I have a lot of shortcomings. I'm aware of that. I work on those things.

There are no shortcuts in evolution.

Sometimes shots just don't go my way, but for me in my growth and as a leader, it's important for me to stay aggressive.

As an actor, I obviously want to do lead roles but over a period of time, one gets prepared to carry a movie on your own shoulder.

When your band is no longer just your band but is an industry within an industry it can be a lot on youngish shoulders.

Shout out to my boy Guwop. We came in the game, and we learned from the best.

It's amazing how fast you learn something if they shove you out on the stage and say, 'Learn it.'

It's always great when you get a chance to give someone an opportunity to step outside his envelope and show people that he can do it.

I want to be part of projects where I can showcase my growth as an actor.

Every role affords me something different in the way of understanding, and that's really why you take these roles, not to show that thing that people talk about of showing what you can do - that has nothing to do with anything.

I know I'm better than what I've shown out there. I just need to continue to try to get better and go down there and do my job when my name is called.

I'm still a small shrimp, not a dragon.

I'm going through a stage where the dumbest things make me bawl. I feel like I need to see a shrink.

I built a company; now, I would like to shrink a government and grow an economy.

I'm just trying to get better every day. And I think if I do so, the accolades, the awards, the accomplishments will come.

When you are working with someone who is so aware of what they do, you become better, too.