Jeffrey Dean Morgan Quotes

The more I grow as a person, the more I grow as an actor.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

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

In the private sanctuary of one's own conscience lies that spirit, that determination to cast off the old person and to measure up to the statue of true potential.

I'm a work in progress.

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.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our character.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

It's not to late to... ask yourself if you really are the person you want to be, and if not, who you do want to be.

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

If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.

The distance between who you are and who you might be is closing.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

Revolution begins with the self, in the self.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

I prefer stories about people who are, in a sense, trying to find better versions of themselves.

When characters change on screen, it makes you feel better about yourself. You think, 'Oh I change too, I'm constantly becoming a better person.'

You have to lose yourself to find yourself.

I started to study, because I knew I had to learn a lot about myself as an actor; you can't act the same as you did as a child.