Quotes About Vulnerability

Because I enjoy training, obviously what comes with that is if you haven't been training, or you're not feeling like you're in great shape, then the last thing you want to do, like anyone, is to be seen by millions half naked.

I have never hidden my relationship and I have been called the worst names in the showbiz world.

You can't nap with just anyone. It's weird. I can honestly say I've only napped with six people.

You give up your narcissism, your egotism. That's how you achieve chemistry.

The economics of the security world are all horribly, horribly nasty and are largely based on fear, intimidation and blackmail.

Fear is natural. Be with it.

When I'm scared, my natural state is to hide and run for cover.

The natural world is not indestructible.

I don't think confidence has ever really been one of those things that came naturally for me. If people thought I was confident, it was really just the way I masked my insecurity, because I didn't want people to really get to know the real me.

Always the danger for me in life and in art is not to be brave. I am not a naturally brave person. I have to will myself not to hole up in my house and read my life away.

I'm not really a competitive person, and I'm not naturally comfortable in front of people.

When people are left out, we're naturally going to focus on that, if it's 47 million people who don't have health insurance, if it's 23,000 people who die every year because they lack access to health care for something that's easily treatable.

She loved the babies with every cell of her being but it always felt one-sided. They were too bad off to love her back.

My car contained guns, bundles of cash I'd found hidden about the house, and boxes of vintage pornography. If I got pulled over and searched, I'd probably go to jail. If I had a wreck, money and porn would litter the interstate, mixed with my funeral suit, my grandfather's rifle, a shotgun, three hundred rounds of ammunition, the remnants of my father's ashes, and whatever was left of me.

To have the beautiful relationship you want, you and your partner must share your life stories with each other, holding nothing back. That sharing includes any past experiences of brutality, traumas, rape, incest, and emotional or mental torture of any kind that either of you has experienced as well as the wonderful memories you each cherish.

First-class relationships are possible only in an atmosphere of total trust.

You're losing your touch , Natasha. An unencrypted pay phone? Amateur hour.

Tis knowing God created Eve from Adam's rib, the spot that protected his heart. 'Tis knowing without that rib to protect him, a man is vulnerable. 'Tis knowing you're created to be at my side, not under my feet. 'Tis knowing we're one body, one mind.

The thing that hunts me now thrives on terror. My terror. I fear he will come for me. I fear he will come for anyone who knows me.

the hollow just beneath his throat. And then the curve of his shoulder.

that sort of thing. I'm just supposed to come up with raw

Give me your honest opinion. I don't want truth with a veil on—I like naked ladies naked.

I shall never be a dangerous woman; I can make men love, but I cannot make them suffer. It would be much better the other way about. I have seen women able to make men suffer who could not make them love. The more they suffered the more they hung around for a showdown. In the end they did better than I, for it is strange what people will do to be able to suffer and say to themselves, in the night, "I have suffered, I have lived indeed.

I do not know how I got through without breaking down, without my heart bursting from sorrow and shame.