Quotes About Vulnerability

It's like Samson and Delilah: watch your back, because trouble could be the person you're sleeping with.

I'm often troubled by a very strong instinct to share everything that's going on with me. I want to feel that connection, even with people I don't know. Then this other voice says, 'That's not prudent. People will use what you've said to hurt you.'

It is so much easier to try to help a six-month-old child or a six-year-old child than it is a 16-year-old troubled kid.

Prostitution happens to you because of troubles you had. In reality no woman would choose to do that.

I think if you laugh at your troubles and tell the whole world what went wrong, you can't be frightened by anything.

I think, as human beings, we try to hide our flaws and try to present this perfect person, this person we wish we were, to our spouse when that causes so many troubles.

In a lot of ways, Nauru is something like a canary in a coal mine: It's a tiny place with more than its share of troubles, most of them the kind that might have been prevented.

I wanted people to see I am human, I do have troubles and things don't always come easy.

What's it like to have my trousers pulled down? It's not as awful as it seems. Doing that kind of thing with an actress like Judith Paris, who pulls them down, is easy, because she is very professional about it.

It blows me away the number of truck drivers or macho guys that will call, and then I start peeling back the layers, and I find out they've been listening to me for 10 or 15 years, and they know every lyric to every sappy song.

I remember, this one time, one of my best friends was living with us for a little while, this place we were renovating. We got back, we'd been cleared out. The place had been robbed. They must have backed up trucks to get the appliances. And our buddy was still sleeping.

People say to me all the time, 'You have no fear.' I tell them, 'No, that's not true. I'm scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.'

True strength is delicate.

It takes a real man to make a true confession - a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.

Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

Sookie is always in distress, it wouldn't be 'True Blood' if someone wasn't trying to kill her.

'True Blood' excites me. It scares me, but it excites me.

With any project I work on - not just 'True Detective' - I don't feel the need just to play a strong woman. I don't want the audience to say, 'Oh, she was so strong.' I want to play characters that are flawed and interesting.

The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.

True friends: only a few have 'em, but only a few will admit that they don't.

My true friends, and my son, see me with kind eyes. I feel it. So that's the freedom my children have given me. To be naked in the world with an open heart.

The beautiful gift of my husband is that he saw me the way I've always wanted to be seen and there's something really powerful to that. When you find true love I really believe that that's what it is at its core.

I love my husband very much. I knew it was real true love because I felt like I could be myself around that person. Your true, true innermost authentic self, the stuff you don't let anyone else see, if you can be that way with that person, I think that that's real love.