Quotes About Vulnerability

I am very sentimental, very emotional, but never in my writing; I am very tough.

For writers: don't hold back. Be weird. Be sentimental. Be melodramatic. Take the risk of being not-cool, not-hip.

I had huge separation anxiety as a kid.

If you can't laugh about sex, you shouldn't be doing it.

I think for most of us, our biggest frailties are sexual.

As an actor, I love doing projects that shake you to the core.

This is all I've ever known. I don't know what it's like to not walk shaky.

When I first sat down with my oncologist the day before Thanksgiving, and she told me I would need 8 rounds of chemo, one of my first questions admittedly was: 'Will I lose my hair?' It sounds shallow, I know, but it was a very scary image to me.

The worst pain in the world is shame. I spend a lot of time trying to not do anything bad to anyone, but you can't live your life and not hurt people.

The secret is I have no shame.

I have no shame - all my secrets are out there.

There's a tremendous sense of shame that people who are lonely feel. I say that as someone who felt ashamed of being lonely as a child and even at points during adulthood.

I think everyone who shares a piece of themselves and is open and honest - I think that helps us all.

When love happens I won't shy away from sharing.

Yes, sharing super-personal experiences is scary, but I can only get up on stage and perform it if I really connect with the music.

I just write about myself all the time, which is a funny one, because I don't really like sharing much stuff with other people, apart from music.

I hope that in sharing my stories and take on what has happened to me, that it empowers anyone who is going through a struggle that it is okay to not be okay.

'Eagle vs Shark' is a little film I could take risks with and make mistakes on.

I think acting has helped me come out of my shell because when I play a character, I can't be self-conscious.

You can't shelter yourself from the world.

I think humor is used a lot of the time to keep people from getting too close. Humor side-steps and shifts the meaning.

I've been in many auditions thinking, 'God, do I have to take my shirt off?'

I don't like to run around with my shirt off. I'm very shy in that sense.

I talk a lot about strength, faith and love, but I don't ever talk about the fact that I am one of the most sensitive people in my family. That might be the most shocking, because you always see me fighting the good fight, with the strong face on, but I am the most emotional.