Quotes About Vulnerability

Girls who use jokes to be nasty are often hiding other feelings they are struggling to express.

There are always safe spaces. You can be a beacon for other people who are struggling. It's hard to put your heart out there and put it in other peoples' hands. But the receiving end is gentle.

My wife, she knows me better than anybody else. She knows what I'm struggling with, and she knows where I'm at. And I have friends, pastors, and it's good not to have my only friends be people who think I'm special. It's really good to have people who think I'm just an ordinary guy.

It's OK when you are struggling to reach out for help.

I was shy and struggling with it.

For so long, I've been a little misunderstood as a person. You know, I do have this strut about me. I don't know if it's the Jersey girl in me. I like to think of myself as an egg, you know? Hard on the outside but soft on the inside.

Open your arms to life! Let it strut into your heart in all its messy glory!

I'm quite stubborn, and it's hard for me to let people in - whether that's literally, musically, or with business and work.

In a kidnapping, you leave behind a lot of your baggage, like arrogance and stubbornness.

All the work I do is personal, so the good stuff and the bad stuff that you see in there is all good stuff and bad stuff that I have, and part of the journey, for me, has been to embrace these things that I find embarrassing about myself: my stubbornness, my ego, my maudlin-ness - these things that I see myself do, and I go, 'Oh, David, stop that!'

If you try to talk about yourself honestly when you're an actor, you come off as stuck on yourself.

Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to be in a state of shock. First people want to praise you, and then they want to attack you. No one can prepare you for it.

I am the world's most appalling martial artist. I am so bad. I've studied jujitsu, kickboxing, t'ai chi. Once, I was sparring with someone, made a mistake, and managed to knock them down. I was so shocked that I dropped to my knees to see if they were all right, and then they knocked me out cold. From the floor.

I write about so much personal stuff, it's like reading my diary.

This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it.

I decided at 15 that I didn't want to be one of those artists that gets up and sings love songs they don't mean. I decided that I was going to be me to the fullest extent, that my songs were going to reflect relationships I've had, things I've been through, and even the stuff I'm embarrassed about.

It's easy to be silly in real life, but making stuff up onstage, that seemed hard. Better to be the funny person off-the-cuff in the room than to risk being unfunny onstage.

Life is shining a light through a magnifying glass on me, looking for me to stumble. I think that's my biggest fear.

The most common reason we stumble into the delusion of powerlessness is that we're afraid of what other people would do or say or feel if we were to act as we wanted.

You know what my greatest personal stumbling block is? My shyness.

Make yourself look really stupid so you don't feel bad doing something a little stupid.

I'm kind of stupid.

I am trying to be a girl who is real and has an opinion. Might say stupid things but not scared of men, and for me that's important.

I just want people to see that I do my own stuff, that I'm not stupid, and I can make fun of myself.