Quotes About Vulnerability

The same things that lead to disparities in health in this country on a day-to-day basis led to disparities in the impact of Hurricane Katrina.

I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentimental. I think we're all afraid to reveal our hearts. It's not at all in fashion.

I am keen to do roles that are down-to-earth, appealing, and sensitive.

I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.

With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself.

Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.

I'm all about being open with how you feel. But I don't believe in feeding into fear. I think that's what keeps me going and feeling hopeful.

I didn't know I would cry when I actually cut my hair, but I felt empty when something kept dropping and disappearing.

I think Secretary's funny, it is about sex, and there's a lot of sex in it, sex is the key, but you're talking about a lot of other complicated things.

To kick someone when they're down is just something that you really should never do.

This is a mean world, and everyone likes to jump in and kick people when they're down.

I'm not making any excuses. I got my butt kicked in certain games.

Sometimes if I tell people, 'I'm afraid that I'm really a fraud,' or 'I have a lot of self-doubt,' they go, 'Oh, no, you're kidding.' I go, 'No, I'm really honest.'

I'm afraid of the dark. I'm not kidding.

Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level... Anytime I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of.

There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.

Sadness is also a kind of defence.

A lot of the men I've dated have been incapable of even basic kindness.

The fathers, if they got me alone, would try to kiss and fondle me. I hated it.

I knew how to read a contract by 10 years old, but I didn't know what it meant for somebody to come in and tell me they loved me and kiss me goodnight. That's a problem.

When someone thinks they're good at something, you can use it against them, and that's what we did. We did the kiss of death.

To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.

Kissing on screen isn't easy.

Kissing is kind of scary.