Quotes About Vulnerability

I want to do a romantic comedy. Like a 'When Harry Met Sally' romantic comedy... A really sweet, show-my-vulnerability kind of role.

I'm a sucker for the big, gruff, distant, emotionally closed-off hero who sloooowly warms up to the feisty, awesome, sweet heroine.

I like a woman who's not afraid to be sweet.

Cancer Boy probably has the saddest, noblest, sweetest heart of any character I've ever done.

Not in sorrow freely is never to open the bosom to the sweets of the sunshine.

Transatlantic flights are unflattering. Hairstyles flop. Makeup melts away. Faces shrivel or swell from dehydration, and contact lenses give way to spectacles.

I'm not an outdoor girl. I can barely swim. I don't ride a horse.

I can't swim.

I don't know how to swim.

Sometimes it's like teaching a kid how to swim; sometimes you throw them in the deep end and tell them, 'Don't die. Keep moving your arms.' It's kind of like that with acting sometimes, where there's a lot of trust afforded.

I'm not a highly outgoing person. I'm pretty guarded when you first meet me. But being in a Speedo for my entire life growing up, because I was a swimmer, and being naked in front of people now, doesn't really bother me.

In the past I've been very into the falling part, very into the swimming in the dark, deep emotional water. 'Rampart' I really went into it and it took me three times as long to get out of that depression as it did to just do the scenes. I had to learn to give it my all and then go home and laugh.

I have issues about swimming in the Med unless I've got a mask on.

Your emotions are exposed when you play golf: humility, pride, anger, it all comes out with each swing. You lay it all on the line.

The more you stick your neck out, the more people are going to take a swing at you when things go bad.

Like all of us, we have pretty serious mood swings.

I haven't got the kind of discipline where I can turn my emotion inside out and then just switch off. It affects me fairly profoundly and I don't like putting myself through that kind of mincer every day.

I feel people think I'm almost like a robot - like an android... I just don't really get portrayed as someone who has feelings or who is sympathetic... like a self-absorbed ice queen.

Over the course of my 13-year career, I've had a lot of concussions, and yet, because I'm no longer competing or suffering from concussion symptoms, I felt like I was in the clear. The reality, though, is that I get concussions far more easily, and my symptoms last far longer than ever before.

What dragged me down was not being mayor - it was insecurity, the need to be accepted by everyone, the pleasure syndrome. That's what brought me down.

I have this absurd syndrome where I get these out-of-the-blue, pathetic panic attacks. It'll be in a very easy, simple scene when everything is going swimmingly, and then suddenly, bang, I'm shvitzing and can't remember my lines.

Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.

There's no such thing as a foolproof system. That idea fails to take into account the creativity of fools.

It is a fairly open secret that almost all systems can be hacked, somehow. It is a less spoken of secret that such hacking has actually gone quite mainstream.