Quotes About Authenticity

The most vulnerable people have tough exteriors because they are very scared inside, and it's very hard for people like that - people like me - to open up. But playing it safe means you stop being open to learning. I always try to find the challenges.

People who find that they have a lot of drama in their relationships need to allow themselves to get 'bored'. At first, it will feel excruciating, and they may find themselves confronting a very real fear underneath all that drama: being truly close and therefore vulnerable to another human being.

The day people around me stop questioning my character is the day my character begins to grow vulnerable.

I think I'm actually more vulnerable than people imagine.

The songs come from a vulnerable place, but expressing that part of yourself can also make you feel fearless.

I seek to be authentic and engaging, using my own experiences, being as vulnerable as I ask my clients to be, to enhance the process.

I'm always attracted to the vulnerable character more than I am the superhero.

Nobody's just arrogant. I've met people who are embattled and dismissive, but when you get to know them, you find that they're vulnerable - that that hauteur or standoffishiness is because they're pedaling furiously underneath.

I'm inspired by people who are so sensitive and vulnerable that they try to cover it up.

I'm really vulnerable onstage because it's just me. I'm not really trying to put up a front or act a certain way.

I haven't played a lot of wallflowers but I have played women who have been vulnerable.

I feel extremely vulnerable.

It's difficult for most of us to be completely honest with ourselves - we hate to admit how vulnerable or needful we are.

I realize that I am typically vulnerable only when and where and how much it suits me. I can choose my writer words and even go back and edit.

You put your heart and soul into something and it makes you a little bit vulnerable.

I think the best acting is when you allow yourself to be kind of vulnerable in the moment.

I think one of the reasons I've had success in hip-hop is that I can bring out vulnerability in people who are generally seen as tough guys. To me, when a hip-hop musician always plays tough, I find it annoying because I know they're not really like that - there's something deeper and vulnerable. There has to be, because they're human beings.

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that's such a downer, and people hate that topic. It's not that vulnerability is the upside, but it's better than shame, I guess.

If you're really being honest with yourself when you're acting, part of it is touching the real you. You can only separate yourself so much from the character. Those vulnerable moments do touch me.

You can't be the vulnerable, transparent, raw person required to be an artist, and then cover that stuff up and meet the world with some kind of armor on. It just doesn't go.

My best advice would be that you have to be vulnerable with each other. Like, everyone says you have to be honest, you have to communicate; like, yes, of course, but you gotta be willing to be vulnerable.

I feel that telling my secrets makes me less vulnerable. What would make me vulnerable are the secrets I keep.

I just love doing radio. I've learned to be more vulnerable through radio than even I've been through books and writing lyrics. It's a different type of experience where, if I'm writing a lyric, I can sort of hide behind it a little bit.

Laughter is really a gift. It's the most vulnerable state you can be in.