Avery Bradley Quotes

I don't think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It's just maturity. I've become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence.

Not saying I was a bad kid, but I had a lot to learn. You've just got to not be impulsive.

There are certain times when I was younger, I was occasionally more passive.

It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different.

I'm just looking always for characters that change, because I want to get better, as an actor and as a person.

I've been in fights, but that doesn't make me cool or like a tough guy or more interesting actor, I'm not proud of it.

A woman has many faces as she goes through her life. It's like we need more than one hair-do. We have many, many changes in the evolution of our lives. We have, we learn, and we grow; we view life differently, and life views us differently.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves.

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

I'm not the angry, rebellious child that I was. You can remain a child for a long time. I certainly did. I was a slow learner.

I think I've changed a lot as a person.

I'm always changing. I still have the same morals and values and foundation of who I was, growing up in Jacksonville, FL, but I'm such a different person from who I was when I was 17. You live and you learn and you grow.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

I think this movie, 'Moneyball,' symbolizes becoming a man for me, and I think my character becomes a man. It's important to me: I'm becoming a man. I'm taking my life seriously. I'm taking my acting really seriously, and it's important for me to play adults. It's important for me to change and develop as I get older.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

Life is definitely always about expanding. That's how we grow.

I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.

By the time you're 30, you know who you are inside. You learn to laugh at things you can't change; you learn to be yourself.

I always imagined that magically, at some point, I would settle into this very easy and refined sophistication, but it turns out that who you are at eleven is pretty much who you are at 27, so I don't know how much I've learned over the years.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.