Quotes About Growth

I'm so blessed to have such enlightened parents. It must have been very hard to watch their able-bodied son lock himself up in his old room for most of his 20s.

It's interesting to watch myself with an audience; I'm trying hard to learn from it.

I have learned to watch myself and give myself constructive criticism. Although I have to cover my face and peek sometimes!

Anything I plant, to actually watch it grow gives me great pleasure.

You cannot simplify human intelligence, emotion, and growth. To watch the frills and furbelows of a human psyche is fascinating.

Honestly speaking, I don't like my films. When I watch them, I see a lot of scope for improvement, so if I were to see any of my films, like 'Dhoom,' I might say... 'It would have been better if...' or 'had it been...' and this is all about evolving.

Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better.

I've been in the industry for 17 years. I am over that phase of wanting my first watch, car etc.

When you can watch something grow that you created - it's really an amazing feeling.

I don't want to be forever rewinding the Groves fight because I want to have loads of others to watch too.

I think that's good that I have to watch how I act and what I say. I think that's a part of growing up.

There's a certain amount of pleasure in being able to create something and watch it grow.

I'd rather watch a character be good at something and be challenged - there's more to play in that.

For me, being in retirement, it was just having the opportunity to watch other stuff and do different things.

I just learn from every legend that I've watched. I learned from the best.

I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.

I watched 'Mighty Ducks.' 'Slapshot' when I was a little older.

I'm quite comfortable looking at myself in movies, probably because I've been doing it for so long, since I was a kid. So I sort of watched myself grow up and go through adolescence, like, basically on camera.

I have been putting the effort. I went for the acting course, watched a lot of movies and started reading about films. I think that has created a sub-conscious impact.

Working with people like Jennifer Aniston and Jason Sudeikis is such a blessing because I've watched them a great deal. I grew up with 'Friends' and always aspired to work with someone from that cast. Jason is just such an amazing comedian.

I didn't really watch action films growing up! I grew up on stuff like 'Anne of Green Gables' - that was more when I was in elementary school. It was all I ever watched.

It was really cool to work with Dakota Fanning. I've watched her grow up and I've always loved her films, loved her. It was amazing working with someone who was American as well, because obviously it's going to be a different energy straightaway. We got on really well; she's so professional and hardworking.

Do you think it is possible to increase your intellectual ability? For decades, I have studied the power of this belief to become reality and watched as the concept of maintaining a 'growth mindset' has taken root in education and parenting circles.

I reached a point where I'd watched enough directors do the job that I felt I understood it. And it's not that I'm a slow learner and it took me this long; I also was enjoying writing, and I still enjoy writing - I get tremendous satisfaction out of the writing end of it.