Quotes About Vulnerability

Bambi, to a kid, was scary.

We are living in a world where everything is based on security.

In football, however well you think you are doing, however well your life is going, there is always a mugger there lurking in the shadows to bash you over the head when you least expect it.

When you put all your eggs in one basket, you've got a problem.

I got beat up sometimes in the girls' bathroom.

You can still be a man and have an emotional side.

Sometimes when you love someone like a mother loves her child, that love can turn into fear. It happens to me all the time. I am so afraid that the world will not be kind to my children.

To make music that means something, you kind of have to drop the cool. You have to be prepared and willing to be uncool.

It's just so humanizing to see someone be real.

I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don't know, and talk about what you do know, and talk about what you don't know as long as you say you don't know it.

Be yourself, whatever it is. Even if it's scary.

I couldn't bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all.

Most people are embarrassed to admit there's another human being that's in control of them, that your heart beats three times as fast because you've given yourself to someone else.

I still don't like going to bed alone.

You can't apologize for who you are on a stage, you can reveal who you are but don't apologize because that's begging the audience to turn on you.

You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.

Everyone saw me cry with happiness after I won the Beijing medals. It's really embarrassing.

Everybody has had that experience of really wanting to do something and being afraid.

I am totally open to being in love.

I'm not nervous being in front of people, it's being myself in front of people that I hate.

I still get weepy when I see a father being nice to his child. It so affects me.

I'm learning to stop being scared.

With everything, especially romantic relationships, you have to protect your heart. That doesn't mean you can't show up and be able to give this person a piece of you and be open to being yourself.

I feel that being comfortable - being yourself - when you walk into an audition room is a really important thing. I think being able to own every aspect of your life is only going to make you be more comfortable in front of a table of people you don't know.