Quotes About Vulnerability

It's OK to get your feelings hurt.

I just want people to know it's OK to really feel their feelings.

I am certainly not perfect. I don't think you should try to be perfect for anyone. When you come to terms with that, then you're OK.

A doctor once told me that with crying you aren't sure what its derivation is. If someone comes at you with a knife, you don't cry: you scream, you try to run. When it's over and you're OK, that's when you cry.

We have to tell people who need help that it's OK to ask for it.

It's okay', you know? It's okay to be you. It's okay to just not be okay. It's okay to not be okay.

I've been told by people that it's okay to cry but, you know what, it's been used against me.

No one escapes being haunted by something that absolutely terrifies them to the core, but very few feel it's okay to admit what it is that haunts us.

One of the first exercises we did in acting class my freshman year was to stand in two rows, two lines facing each other as a class, and just make sounds and move in some completely nonsensical way out into the center of the room. Sort of make an idiot out of yourself, essentially, but to be okay with that.

Sometimes the art world can be a scary place, and you feel like you should know more than you do, but it's okay to not know everything!

I think that's the whole point of Bridget Jones. It's all about that it's okay to fail.

I cry for a lot of good things that happen. I cry a lot, okay?

It's okay to have fear - we're all human; it happens - but in facing your fears, you can really open yourself up to things you never thought possible.

I think the first time I tried to write a romantic song, it was just horrendously embarrassing. I remember thinking, 'Okay, I'm not going to do that anymore.' I think that sort of embarrassed me for the next 10 years.

Acting is not hiding to me; it's revealing. We give you license to feel. 'Hey, she's crying, so it's okay if I cry, too.' That's the most important thing in the world, because when you stop feeling, that's when you're dead.

Growing old on screen is not for the faint of heart.

I was born with chronic asthma, and when I was about five or six years old, one day I had an asthma attack so bad I began to become comatose.

The man who holds the key to a woman's heart should make certain the old ones are destroyed.

Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.

I am tough, but deep inside my toughness, I like to let people know I'm an old-fashioned mama's boy.

I think everything that played a part in my life growing up is in my music. Being homeless, living in shelters, dealing with over-aged, older men that hit on me... all that is in the music.

I don't think people really take pneumonia seriously when they hear it. But people really die from pneumonia: kids, older people, even just regular-aged people. They just die from pneumonia.

I'm an emotional gangster. I cry once every month.

Sharks - I'm sure they're going to get me one day.