Quotes About Vulnerability

I just try to show up and be relaxed and present and honest. And that's my only trick. And sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. Honestly, sometimes it really doesn't work.

I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.

Around the world, human traffickers trick many people into slavery by false promises of good jobs or good education, only to find themselves forced to work without pay, under the threat of violence.

I have to tell you, I'm not like Demi Moore, where the tears trickle prettily down my cheeks. My whole face screws up and it's like, 'Oh please, get a room.'

I try not to do tricks because I don't want to be caught with it. It's a risk.

One thing you learn doing magic tricks for a living is how close every performance of every magic trick is to disaster. There are no robust magic tricks. They're all hanging from a thread - sometimes literally.

The tricky thing is, from what I've heard, I'm a bit emotionally unavailable.

The shedding of any clothes, when you're 70 years old, is tricky.

Players would empty their souls to me; you cannot fathom the stories I've heard, everything from the good to the bad. I tried whatever I could to work things out.

During 'Saturday Night Fever' at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can't do them so I ended up on my ass followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling over in laughter and a good portion of the audience too.

This howling mouth, this head which rolls back and tries to escape.

Probably the advice I could follow more is the self-love sort of advice. I think, four out of every five days, I'm good at that, but certain situations can trigger self-doubt or cloudiness around how I feel about myself.

The reason I never wanted to speak about it before was because every time someone said, 'I've got a bit of anxiety,' it would trigger it and then it would happen. It was almost like speaking about it made it come out; this devil I was terrified of.

Once, right before a show, I realized I'd forgotten shoes. I didn't want to wear my flip-flops onstage because I could trip. I ended up going barefoot, which actually worked out because it became my 'thing.'

When you're performing, you just have to keep pushing through. You're human, and you're going to make mistakes. I think even Beyonce has tripped on stage, and she's Beyonce! We're all human beings, and sometimes we trip in our high heels! I barely perform in high heels. I don't know how those girls do it.

It sounds so trite but in relationships, you have to communicate.

It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

By now, you've heard endless warnings about the risk of short, trivial passwords. There's a good chance you ignore them.

It is often seen that in households where all members are exposed to the same danger, or again in schools or troops where everyone lives the same life, disease does not strike everyone indifferently.

Once the trophy has been lifted, and the fans have all stopped applauding - there's the potential for a player to feel their lowest. It is at this point when we need the support the most, when we're simply human beings.

I think you're running into a lot of trouble if your idea of foreplay is, 'Brace yourself honey, here I come!'

As soon as you become afraid to make a fool of yourself, you're in trouble. I decided I may as well just see if I can live with myself making millions of mistakes and learn something from it.

I have trouble watching singers because they are so sincere.