Quotes About Vulnerability

If you are in a relationship, stop trying to figure out who wears the pants between the two of you. Relationships work best when both of you are not wearing pants.

Usually people just do their own work. But I want to deal with the place and what it means to show in a mental hospital.

My biggest vulnerability now is my son, Hudson. I am often plagued with fear: Is he ok? Is he safe? I'm in the process of trying to work through this fear. It's a hard one.

Part of what I do comes from the fact that I don't know any jokes to tell. And when I do they're really flat and don't work.

The foibles of my body are pretty much out there in the work I do.

But she's not, and I am left to wonder on my own: How does this work, the getting to know a new guy without revealing too much desperation for his undivided attention?

When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest things.

It's exciting to work with the kids so devoid of irony, so unguarded. And also terrifying

It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind. We need to protect artists and journalists people to allow them to work.

It's so easy to just rip someone's work apart.

But risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.

We're artists. We cry out to be exploited on some level. Write a dissertation on my work. Write a biography about me.

While someone can attempt to shame you, shame must also be accepted to be effective. We can't make you feel shame without your participation.

It might be bold to put your work into the world unadorned, but it's probably ineffective.

I believe that being dependent makes you more vulnerable. I believe work is the greatest gift you will ever receive.

I have a tendency to make my partner my everything and that is unfair and it doesn't end up working out because you can't rely on that one person to fulfill all of your needs emotionally.

I work best when people are here to puncture me

The actor's role in the community is quite unlike anyone else's. Businessmen, for example, don't take their clothes off or cry in front of strangers in the course of their work. Actors do.

I work from almost a dangerous place in my mind sometimes.

I'm in all of my work, and there's nowhere to hide when you make work.

I prefer to be on the side of losers, the misunderstood or lonely people rather than writing about the strong and powerful.

We disqualify ourselves from communicating with God when we refuse to open our hearts to people

Be transparent. Let's build a community that allows hard questions and honest conversations so we can stir up transformation in one another.

No person can open another person, All we can do is wait. And then work with the openness when it occur.s.