Diablo Cody Quotes

Every experience makes you grow.

I look back at my twenties and see that I was much less confident.

I sometimes think I should go back to school to learn French and music, but who would have me?

I think at the end of season you really learn exactly how you might become better.

I always feel like I'm not very impressive in interviews when I talk about what I watch on television.

I have my moments of insecurity and figuring out what's going on and what I'm supposed to do, but if you don't push yourself, you're not growing, so where do you go?

It's a new endeavour for me. I've never run a territory. I've never talked publicly to people. I've got to try it just to see whether I like it.

It's funny, I really feel like I've learned a lot in my career but I still feel like a child. Like, an 11-year-old? I think it will be like that all my life, actually.

When you take on new roles that you don't feel comfortable with, that require you having skills you don't have, it's terrifying.

I didn't know how to get along with others. I didn't even know how to be in the same room with other people. Then, after a while, you learn.

When I first started, I was definitely reserved,. I was still trying to find myself.

I have a lot of growing up to do. But I think, 'Hell, is it too late?'

Man reaches each stage of his life as a novice.

I'm mostly just getting used to the idea that people want to hear what I have to say.

On the flip side, no one has any idea who the hell I am. I felt like I had to prove myself to them. On any new project I'm working on, the first week is nerve-wracking, but especially with these people that I admire so much and who I just want to be equal with.

Sometimes we become bound by other people's thoughts because we are not sure about ourselves.

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, relationships that have lost their meaning. As Dostoevsky put it, "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most." The real fear should be of the opposite course.

You will be stupid. You will worry your parents. You will question your own choices, your relationships, your jobs, your friends, where you live, what you studied in college, that you went to college at all... If that happens, you're doing it right.

Confidence is overrated. It's when we're uncomfortable and looking for answers that we learn and grow the most.

I don't really know how to do anything else except music. But I do. I've never felt more comfortable doing it. When I was put into arenas and stadiums when I was 27, I always thought somebody was going to say, 'No, they're not here for you.' You don't quite believe that they actually like you, because it's an extreme change in your life. Which is insane really, because they bought the ticket. So you start feeling more comfortable in your skin the more you do something, or the older you get.

Ignorance at twenty-two isn't a structural defect.

I want to be sure I can deliver what people expect to hear. I just don't know if I can physically do it. Or if I should.

The game is to keep learning, and I don't think people are going to keep learning who don't like the learning process.

I said, "Oh well, I'll act." I started to study, but I didn't know what I was doing, and I don't know that I was taking it very seriously then.