Quotes About Vulnerability

I'd like to be wanted for my body, too! As an actor I want to play all different kinds of women - independent women but also very vulnerable women.

God wants us to pray that we might have the courage to live before him in ways that are not natural to us.

I was angry at my parents when I had to have brain surgery, that they weren't still around, because no matter how old you are you want you parents when you're going through something like that.

Don't play dead with a vulture. That's exactly what they want.

Oh, the things we invent when we are scared and want to be rescued.

The hackers don't want to destroy the network. They want to keep it running, so they can keep making money from it.

Dialogue is used to reveal not what we want to say, but what we are trying to hide.

No human beings, regardless of who they might be, want to look directly at their own shortcomings.

I have the show because I'm insecure. It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience.

Sometimes you watch comedians and feel like they're jerking off in front of you, but they want you to see how big it is.

My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.

Lovemaking surely must be, for human beings at our present state of development, one of the more private enterprises. Who would want a witness to that entire self-abandonment and helplessness?

I have to not harden my heart, because I want to stay open to feel things.

You know sometimes I just want to curl up on stage and lie there for a while - it's weird.

Humans are vulnerable, messy little animals and that's normal. And all I want to do is make a space for that in my films.

You know what? I don't care. I'm my own guy. I'm very secure with my sexuality. I can cry anytime I want.

Who wants a bag of bones?" he said, with absolute sincerity. "I don't want to hurt myself on the sharp edges of the woman I'm bedding.

Many times I've sat with a camera and another actor and seen all their fears and insecurities and struggles. You want to support them and help them as much as you can.

I would like to do a part that would stretch me. In America it seems to me that you just take your clothes off and that helps, but I wouldn't want to do that.

A real conversation always contains an invitation. You are inviting another person to reveal herself or himself to you, to tell you who they are or what they want.

I feel like there's a lot of rappers that could out-rap me and I wouldn't want to face any of them.

Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to you.

There have been people who have tried to take advantage of me. They want to be linked to me just because I'm Ethel Merman.

Tis the greatest misfortune in nature for a woman to want a confidant.