Quotes About Vulnerability

Putting all your eggs in one basket has never worked for me. Personally, I find if I decide too quickly that someone is my match, I start to get a little nutty.

I was morbidly obese. It was a way for me to create a shell around me so that nobody would look at me.

You may think of me as an object of desire and I'm going to tell you that I can be in front of you naked and not be erotic.

I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.

There's the occasional script that just hammers you, that you can't shower off.

It's funny - sometimes when you approach people they get freaked out but occasionally you'll find a gem who's unselfconscious in front of the camera.

I have probably been very close to a complete breakdown on numerous occasions.

Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.

Red had a deep loathing of the night before them. He had been through so much combat, had felt so many kinds of terror, and had seen so many men killed that he no longer had any illusions about the inviolability of his own flesh. He knew he could be killed; it was something he had accepted long ago, and he had grown a shell about that knowledge so that he rarely thought of anything further ahead than the next few minutes…

So long as you use a knife, there's some love left.

It is easy to comprehend people who are weaker than ourselves, but it is not as simple to be ready for the true feelings of those more powerful.

Kid, I can handle anything but the middle of the night.

A man lays his character on the line when he writes a novel. Anything in him which is lazy, or meretricious, or unthought-out, complacent, fearful, overambitious, or terrified by the ultimate logic of his exploration will be revealed in his book.

When a child has seven baby-sitters, it will lose an eye.

Margaret is kindled by it, exalted for a time, sees it as passion, glows and becomes rounded, but only for a time. After a year it is completely naked, apparent to her, that he is alone, that he fights out battles with himself upon her body, and something withers in her.

I cannot take your sense of humor--and, with it, you've nothing to fear from me.

If we are taken all together, we might muster some courage, but from the previous evidence it is likely that we will be taken separately.

Quizá morir con otro no es morirse. Quizá morimos sólo porque nadie quiere morirse con nosotros, nadie quiere mirarnos a los ojos.

to love is to undress our names

El amor es una apuesta, insensata, por la libertad. No la mía, la ajena.

Quédate siempre detrás del hombre que dispara y delante del hombre que está cagando. Así estás a salvo de las balas y de la mierda.

Joy leaks out when there are enough cracks.

There are some of us who in after years say to Fate, 'Now deal us your hardest blow, give us what you will; but let us never again suffer as we suffered when we were children.' The barb in the arrow of childhood's suffering is this: its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.

I gladly sacrifice pear-shaped tones in favor of down-to-earth emotion.