Quotes About Vulnerability

I was never, like, picking on people or anything like that. I was more the other way around. I was a little insecure, I was broke.

Probably the worst pickup line is no pickup line. I mean, at the end of the day, what is the worst that could happen?

Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine.

Believe me, I don't like being photographed. I don't like myself in pictures. Actually, I do sometimes.

When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.

I definitely take a lot of bad pictures!

With every interview you feel like you lose a piece of yourself, and with every bad review you become just that little bit more bitter. It is horrible in a way.

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

When a Piece or Pawn is in a situation to be taken by the enemy, it is said to be en prise. To put a piece en prise, is to play it so that it may be captured.

I think that the actors that I work with feel safer with me. Because they know I understand what they go through and I don't see them as chess pieces.

Sometimes I've gotten photographs back and people have literally shaven off pieces of me, and I tell them to put it back.

I've been in relationships and had long-term boyfriends since I was 13, so I've always had that emotional pillar of support. I'd got to a point where I felt like I couldn't live without that.

It might take me an hour to get to feel at ease with somebody. I don't find it easy to go into a room full of 10 people and give it all away. In the pilot season in Los Angeles I've done that a couple of times.

I've got pimples on my face, I'm losing some hair.

I was so young when I got so famous, and then I kind of put up a wall around myself. I didn't really want to show people any fragilities or fears; I was trying to be this tough person that I felt was expected of me.

Most of the time, I don't really give people a chance. I have a wall up. I'm always protecting who I am. Thinking about my brand. I make it hard on people. Sometimes, it's a good thing. Sometimes, it's a bad thing.

What I didn't know was that if I didn't stand with my back to the wall, Hollywood people would unscrew my ass and sell it down the river.

I kept a steel wall around my moral and sexual instincts - protecting them, I thought, from the threats of the real world. This gave me a tremendous advantage in politics, if not in my soul. The true me, my spiritual core, slipped further and further from reach.

I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.

I'd say that if you had a strained relationship with your mom, for whatever reason, the best thing to do is be open with each other, talk it over, try and work it out somehow as opposed to just putting a wall up and pushing them away.

I'm always hopeful. I feel like I'm at the prom sitting against the wall waiting for someone to ask me to dance.

Country music busts the wall between performer and audience. There's a connection because there's a vulnerability, a confessional quality, to so much of the songwriting. Those lyrics take you in.

I like when I have to act and direct; then, when you have to dub, you're by yourself in front of the wall, and I'm always scared that you're not good like when you are in real when you act.

I went through a lot in my life that scarred me pretty good. I built a wall around myself to the point where nobody knew what was really going on inside of me, including myself.