Quotes About Vulnerability

If I was going to build a logical defense for myself in a match against Hulk Hogan, I think I would try to work on his legs. Take out any mobility.

I learned that people are much more game to mock their own personas than you would think.

With me, even if my life depended on it, I wouldn't be able to cry. Not with somebody there. Because even if I'm talking about bad and upsetting things, if there is somebody else in the room, I am trying to entertain them. If there is somebody there, I am in performance mode. I can only cry if I am on my own.

With acting, the last thing you do is try to look pretty. Modeling actually makes acting harder - it makes you so self-aware.

I'm a little bit damaged in about 15 different ways, and it's been nice that no particular damaged area has become a major issue. I'm a more than moderately healthy 65-year-old male who has gotten away with a lot of stuff.

I think I'm very permeable. I can very easily, without even choosing to do it, enter the life of another. Or, to put it in a more modest and accurate way, for that life to enter mine.

At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.

There's moments where I want to break down and cry, but not give up.

I've always been drawn to Marilyn Monroe, but certain aspects of her story may be too sad to tell.

Monsters aren't as scary if you start shining lights on them.

I met a guy, and we were seeing each other for about a month or so, but as it got more intense, I started to freak out a little bit. I hadn't been in a relationship for quite a while, and I just said I was going away and not sure if it was going to work.

If I was in a bad mood, then maybe I won't talk about it, but you're going to know about it somehow. If something was bothering me, maybe I would have acted a little bit like a child, meaning I go break something in a room.

I'm embarrassed that people will know that I can't ride a bicycle. For years, I have been feigning bad ankles and saying I wasn't in the mood for a bike ride.

What I think I learned from working on 'Moonlight' is you see what happens when you persecute people. They fold into themselves.

I was more or less a carnival attraction. I was a freak show.

We need more people like me who are real and aren't afraid to take a little criticism.

What was so comforting was that the more I started being honest on my blog, the more people responded.

The more you make fun of yourself and don't try to go for any kind of respect, the more people seem to respect you.

I think more people should be open to talking about mental health issues. Instead of holding in so much.

We humans have an abyss inside us. The more power people have, the greater the danger.

It's always a little nerve-wracking to do a love scene, more than anything because it's just awkward.

Everyone is broken; every mortal man or woman is broken in some way, shape, or form.

Mortality defines the human condition.

Nature is very cruel. It is much riskier to love any living being than not. I'm painfully aware that even my little dog is a walking bundle of mortality. I'm painfully aware he's going to pass.