Jenna Dewan Quotes

Like everybody, I've had a lot of pain in my life and I'm a work in progress. You must have a true desire to see the world from a different point of view, and that comes with growing up.

I played with Eddy Curry twice and in New York, the second time, he asked, 'Who are you?' My first to fourth year I was a different person. I started thinking big picture, that maybe I don't have all the answers.

I think I've just matured over the years.

So many things come with your maturation process. I changed throughout my time with WWE from a kid in his 20s into a man.

I think as you get older, you find out more and more about yourself and what you like and what you don't like.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.

I came to realize in my late 20s that my velocity is not going to grow so I had to learn to utilize what I had.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.

As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

How does anybody change from the time that they're 18 till they're 25? Everything kind of changes. You see the world much differently, and you get your priorities in order a little bit more.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.

I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.

I've become a lot more relaxed about my career, but maybe that's a part of growing up. I realise there are things I hold dear and value, aside from professional achievements.

I didn't get on TV until I was 30, which is really fortunate because you are who you are at that point.

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

Little kids grow up discovering the world that's shown to them and then when you become a teenager, it kind of shrinks a little bit. I think when you get past that point, one of the important things is that you see there is more to the world than yourself.

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

When we're 16, we have lots of heavy thoughts. And these are the heavy thoughts, where, when we're in our 30s, we look at 16-year olds and sort of scorn it.

The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.