Myles Munroe Quotes

Every time I'd get a critique or some redirection, I'd always just take it very personally. Now I have no problem with it.

When someone praises me, I get wary. If someone has something negative to say, I invite them over for a long chat. They are important for my growth as an actor.

I was in a band in Auckland, and I remember they all hated me. They had a big intervention. They said, basically, 'Gin, we think you suck.' I was miserable. I cried and cried. But looking back, that taught me about social skills and how to communicate with musicians.

If I can understand criticism, I take it very seriously. But it's a process; it doesn't happen overnight.

We love to receive praise, but usually we're not certain what message, precisely, we should take from it. On the other hand, when someone points out our flaws, we realize immediately that something needs to change.

So as an amateur Olympic competitor I loved criticism, because it made me better. But now as a professional I don't really know how to channel it or where to take it, so I don't take it quite as well.

When you're physically growing up, you develop emotionally with that.

Life's experiences, whether they be pleasant or unpleasant, torturous or excruciatingly wonderful and blissful, you know, season you somehow and you learn from them.

I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.

Only those who are built up can build others up, amen?

Life experience brings out different emotions and different perspectives on things. I just want to be constantly evolving.

I don't think evil people or negative people are inherently interesting all the time. People who are good people getting better at being themselves - to me, that's something that's really interesting to watch.

I've been in therapy. I know enough about myself now to know that I really don't need to know anymore.

I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

Some relationships get easier as you get older, depending on what sort of person you are. I don't think I've got any better at them.

I learned so much, and I feel I have grown as an actor and as a person.

Career-wise, there are so many things where you don't get what you think you want. I've had to make space for, 'Do I let that debilitate me and make me feel bad about myself? And make me feel like I need to change myself in some way?' Because I think changing myself is very different from growing and learning.

If you want to be honest with yourself, you have to take criticism, even if you attract adverse comments from others.

I've improved as an actor, thanks to my wonderful directors. As a person, I've changed, too; I was 16 when I did 'Thullavatho Ilamai,' and I'm 32 now. With age, I've sobered down. I'm calmer; I can see things more clearly now.

I can grow as a leader only if I'm willing to accept feedback.

I didn't know how to get along with others. I didn't even know how to be in the same room with other people. Then, after a while, you learn.

I just want to show people I've matured, not just physically but mentally.

There have been scenes and sequences I've done that I watch back now and cringe and think I dealt with that in completely the wrong way. Sometimes I'm too emotional - too invested, in that sense - but you learn, and then you don't do it again.

I feel Mehr has brought in a lot of changes in me. She has made me understand a lot of things and there's a lot of gratitude towards the universe and people now. It has made me a better person and a better performer. It has made me realise the value of family and of my own parents.

I do not take to the field to defend myself from certain criticisms. If I do, in this kind of career, it is because I'm very self-critical.