Dane DeHaan Quotes

I just would like to be challenged. I want to push myself to the limit, and constantly challenge myself and grow as an artist. That's where I want to go. Explore different things, different characters, in film, and just everything!

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

Well to be perfectly frank with you I never created art or have done demonstrations for anyone before myself artistically. I always do it to try to push my own envelope to be the best I can be.

I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before.

I always try to better myself with every movie I make. I don't take anything sitting back, and so I try to learn from every film I make and carry that onto the next movie because I think it's important as a filmmaker to keep growing with each film, and I think I am growing with each movie.

I don't believe in competing with other actors. I believe the only person you can compete is with yourself. You can only do better work compared to your earlier work.

I think that growth happens and that learning happens in anybody's life regardless of what profession you're in.

I learn everything with my every film. If we stop learning, we would stop growing as an actor.

I'm somebody who constantly wants to challenge himself, evolve, and grow. Because if you don't, you fade. You become stagnant.

My time at Berklee College of Music was probably my greatest period of artistic growth and internalisation.

I am capable of much more. I guess every artist feels that way. If you are satisfied, you begin to stagnate. I want to grow as an actress every day. There are so many things you can learn, and you can improve upon your skills and abilities every day.

I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

Hopefully with each thing that you do you're learning something, you're growing, and you're pushing yourself a little harder in some way or another. So I think you'd be in real trouble if each new thing that you create didn't feel like 'Oh, wow. I feel like I'm doing something a little different this time.'

I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.

I've put my life back together, but it's all a growing process and that's neat, too, because if you stop growing, what good is it musically? So that is what I am looking forward to - growing. In some ways, I felt stagnant in my life and it showed.

I've evolved as a human being, and I've taken more risks. I've let go of judgment. I don't know when the best stuff is coming - I sink into the process in a different way. I paint more, and my vision is stronger, but I don't think my music is better, because nothing is ever better than your first material.

I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.

I've grown a lot, and I'm learning every week.

You grow and evolve and as you do that, your art hopefully reflects that change and that growth.

You can't focus on other people's careers. Everybody is different.

Personally, for me in my life, I think every journey should be an ongoing journey, for anyone.

The key is that I'm trying to keep growing and trying to keep learning and deepen my connection in every way, in my life, in my work. That's what I do when I look at a role.

Even at the age of 36, I'm always looking at ways to improve.

You hope to be a part of something that makes you a better artist when you leave.

Locke' was sort of myself trying to find out if you could give yourself the maximum number of obstacles to make enough drama and seeing if you could do it.