Joseph P. Kennedy III Quotes

In life, there is always that special person who shapes who you are, who helps to determine the person you become.

The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.

I have been thinking about joining the Peace Corps. That is something that I would absolutely love to do. I think that would be an incredible experience, so that's an avenue that I might want to look at.

Thailand was the transforming experience in my life. Thailand is where I grew up.

I've grown so much as a person through playing Gabrielle, much less living in New Zealand and being with all of these people that I can't imagine my life being any different.

I believe in growth - in myself and in the characters I create.

I spent three years at RMIT doing a bachelor of arts and media studies. It was a hugely formative experience. As someone who had a private Catholic school upbringing, the world suddenly became a much bigger and better place for me.

Every country I go to, I learn a little bit more about myself.

Traveling is magical, inspiring, and life - changing.

And (cue music swell) motherhood turned out to be the most meaningful thing I've ever done with my life. Really.

I didn't do very well when I was at school, so my dad gave me the opportunity to travel in Africa. I drove from London to Nairobi. It was incredible.

And then a great thing in my life was going to India.

You're really lucky as an artist if you get a role that changes you as a person.

I don't know if ISU helped me become what I am, but I know that if I hadn't gone there, I wouldn't be what I am today.

Traveling changes you as a person. If you buy something, it's so different than if you put your money into traveling.

My experience at Bournemouth made me who I am today.

When I made the decision to go to Europe, a lot of people questioned it. The first six months I was there even I was questioning it, but I think I learned a lot more about myself in that six months than I have my whole life.

I feel like I've been able to grow personally because of playing SpongeBob.

The decision to go to Milan, as everyone knows, made me mature as a man. It was a big chance and perhaps too big for the man I was at the time.

Hargrave made me mature. It made me grow up, and I needed that.

As a teenager, my brother's girlfriend came into my life, and I just thought she was the bomb. I followed her around, and she could just say anything, and it would influence me. She took me to my first nice restaurant, bought me my first nice handbag, and took me to my first Alvin Ailey show when I was 14, which changed my life.

I think the thing about keeping your character fresh is, when you change as an individual, you have to flow with it.

My character, Charlotte, is very confident, and I try to be more like my character in real life. Not that I'm not confident, but I've really found my personal growth through work.

To help others develop, start with yourself.

I recognize thart even you, yourself, will change. Your ideals will change, your tastes will change, your desires will change. Your whole understandings of who you are had better change, because if it doesn't change, you've become a very static personality over a great many years, and nothing would displease me more. And so I recognize that the process of evolution will produce changes in you.