Quotes About Vulnerability

I think everyone struggles to feel comfortable in their skin or has at one time or another.

At the end of the day, we're all human beings, and people have their struggles and inner demons.

I know my mom, she'd want her death to encourage people to be open about their struggles.

I started to speak about my acne struggles on social media and in interviews, and people responded really well to it.

Knowing that being open about my struggles can help people out there with their own lives gives me so much drive to continue to keep living out loud.

For anyone to come forward and speak about their own struggles with mental health and tell their own personal story - that takes courage.

The more real and genuine we are about ourselves, the more others will know that there is no shame in struggling, or feeling low, or anxious or having bad days - we all have them.

Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.

If there are cracks in your armor, your opponent is going to find them.

I don't like knowing about other people's feelings. There is nothing more embarrassing. Just as when you play cards and you see your opponent's hand. You are sure to lose.

I think what's dangerous about being an actor who does action movies is you think, 'Well, I can totally handle myself now.' But if my opponent didn't know the other half of the routine, I don't know how well I'd do.

I've had moments of deep self-involvement that didn't come from a place of loving myself but quite the opposite.

The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.

I've been on 'Oprah' a dozen times, and cried once.

I think we've all been in relationships - whether they're romantic relationships or not - where there are things that you excuse because you want it to work, because you are hopeful, because you've invested in this relationship, and you might not otherwise let them fly, but you're being optimistic.

The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me.

You yourself don't have to be shaken by mortal danger in order to feel your mortality.

In our ordinary experiences with other people, we know that approaching each other in a machinelike way gets us into trouble.

On stage, you have nothing to hide behind. It allows the work to live in a more organic place. It's almost like a meditation. You have to go on that stage and be as present as possible.

I don't sing beautifully or grandly or in a very 'moving' way. I am me - which is not very beautiful at times, and not very organised or regular.

I think I was fortunate that even in the children's home I had a boyfriend. How important it was, as an orphan at the age of 12, to be caressed and to be kissed and to know that there is someone who really deeply cared about me.

The Oscar sits on some shelf above my desk. If there was an earthquake, I could actually be killed by my own Academy Award.

I have a very ostrich mentality. I feel like I have my head in the sand so no one can see me.

If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.