Kalki Koechlin Quotes

When I was younger, I remember thinking, 'I have to pass this mark' or 'I have to get this role' or 'I have to do this or that' and then that will mean I have accomplished something. But life is actually all about the process and not about the goals.

You have to go through the ups and downs to really be able to root yourself and focus on what's important.

I hope that I'm also maturing emotionally as a human being as things go on.

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

The only person who needs to know about failure is yourself.

Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old.

Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived... I'm still learning all the time.

I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.

I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.

I don't want to be perceived as someone who has it all figured out. I certainly don't feel entitled or like I'm a superstar. I'm still growing, learning, and figuring things out.

I feel like I've lived a life of making mistakes and learning from them and doing my best to only make each mistake once.

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

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

You know, everybody has setbacks in their life, and everybody falls short of whatever goals they might set for themselves. That's part of living and coming to terms with who you are as a person.

One thing about pushing yourself outside your comfort zone is that you're going to make mistakes, and you're going to fall flat on your face sometimes.

I can't imagine, as a human being, not being able to grow.

When you lose, you learn a lot about yourself. That experience is important.

I find that comforting and an equally purposeful way to think, that there's lots of ways to flex both your strengths and your weaknesses.

I think without struggle, you can't grow as a person - I think you need that in your life.

The feeling of self-discovery, for me, is perennial.

I'm about growth for myself. So if I've made a lot of mistakes, and I haven't learnt from them, then I've failed as a human being.

Embarrassment is where growth happens.

Me finding my confidence took me a while, but now I love that I went through everything I did before to get to where I am now.

From success, you learn absolutely nothing. From failure and setbacks conclusions can be drawn. That goes for your private life as well as your career.