Quotes About Vulnerability

When I was a kid, I was afraid of other kids.

I feel like my honesty gives people the freedom to talk about things they wouldn't otherwise.

There is always that one person in our lives who we deeply love, and that person can also destroy us.

If you really want to know someone, you must see their emotions off guard. That's how I know Joan Crawford could never have been cruel to her children. I really knew her, when she was still Billie, as she liked to be called in the early days. In a relationship as close as ours, I had the chance to see her in every kind of personal situation.

In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.

I love women. I love 'em to death, but sometimes you have to be careful. Sometimes these women out here play games, too.

Like everyone in high school, like everyone in life, we all have this outer layer we put up to protect ourselves.

There's the public self that we present to the outer world. There's the private self, which maybe takes more time to access. But ultimately, what I'm most interested in as a writer is a few notches below the private self.

It was sort of that in-between area when people don't talk about their personal lives. That's the kind of life I think Kerry would be living now if it weren't for the Lopez character sort of outing her.

I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.

If you entrust your data to others, they can let you down or outright betray you.

Legitimate institutions historically have been defenseless in the face of outright fraud.

Being cut off from the outside world is scary.

Bluster - it fortifies me against the outside world. Take away the words, and I am lost.

I know being an open, honest, outspoken person gets me into trouble all the time, but I don't know how to be any other way.

I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.

Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over.

There is something about sex that always brings out the funny in me. I think it's because we make such fools of ourselves over it.

I feel like I'm really honest in my interviews, to a fault. I've lost friends over it. Major friends. And I'm heartbroken about that.

For me, love is such a beautiful thing and I love that you actually have no control over it.

And obviously, when I talk about something that has hurt me in my life, I can go overboard.

There's an insecure part of me that comes out of me, I get nervous. I don't know why, I wish I could overcome it because it gives me an anxiety feeling.

There are many things people don't know about me, and maybe when they read about those things, they will have an understanding of the journey I have been on, why I've made the mistakes I have, and hopefully help other people overcome their adversities.

The world is run on fear and shame. And I don't feel like we can begin to overcome these things until we speak about them openly and stop being scared of what happens as a result.