Quotes About Vulnerability

No matter how nice the company one might be with, however, it is never pleasant to have a rifle pointed at one's back.

There are so many low points with stand-up. You are perpetually humiliated, so it doesn't really matter anymore. I don't have any dignity left to lose. An audience can't hurt you anymore when you've been completely dismantled.

You don't get points for leaving the chin open.

There have been points in my life as an artist where I have wanted to capture people's attention, probably to compensate for times when I felt invisible.

When I was a kid, and for many years after, I was your classic afraid-to-dance-type person.

Dream and Ne-Yo understand what women go through, what we feel, what we talk about, what we're scared of, and I think that their records show that clearly as well.

Basically, if I don't click with a person, I will never open up.

Home is where I climb out of my mecha-suit-of-a-poised-persona and power down.

Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave.

Like, if you get close enough to me you'll see how I really am.

I'm not going to let everyone in, but when I do open up, I trust you. I let you fully in. My close friends, my family, and everyone around me can really appreciate it, and sometimes it's not the easiest to open up to people.

There are people that have closed themselves off so much because they've been hurt so much in their lives.

I do know I've lived through a bunch of things that people would maybe prefer I keep behind closed doors.

I can't understand it when people are closed-minded. I mean, boy, have I made mistakes and been very wrong. I can't tell you the amounts of times I've been let down, but I still try to see the best in people.

The people I'm inspired by and I listen to are all ballsy, and I feel like I'm closer to an artist when they're open and honest.

When it comes to a love story, you're like, 'I've been in love before.' So it's closer to you than the other stuff, and for me, that can be less comfortable.

I cry all the time, I just don't cry in front of other people. Only those closest to me, and even that's hard.

For some reason for me, and a lot of people, it's so hard to accept help even when it's from your closest friends.

I was a closet stutterer.

Players do not come out of the closet because they are afraid. We have to appear hard and strong, but we are afraid of what people will say about us. Of course, I have nothing against anyone. I respect everybody.

We all have our own closets to come out of.

I think there's something unromantic about marriage. You're closing yourself off.

There isn't anybody that looks like me without clothes on.

I feel more comfortable with my clothes off than on!