Quotes About Vulnerability

I'm not perfect. I'm not polished.

I'm never going to be this polished politician. Nor am I going to be perfect.

Politicians often reveal most about themselves in unguarded moments.

I was so scared of the water when I was little. I used to grab onto Mum's hand to get out of the pool. I did not even want to shower.

You can go onto that stage every night, and it's always the equivalent of going onto the topmost diving board, and you don't know if there's any water in the pool.

Our intelligence community was extremely poorly prepared before 9/11.

My goal really was to make pop music feel as human as possible.

It's so easy for me to do a boy-bashing pop song, but to sit down and write honestly about something that's really close to me, something I've been through, it's a totally different thing.

In front of a big group of people, in front of cameras, to be in my body and be in that moment, I feel the way that I've always wanted to feel - like a real pop star who is not holding anything back.

The pope is a very... passionate man. He likes to get out with the people, and with that comes a large security risk.

The voice is probably supposed to have some cracks and pops and some mistakes in it.

A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.

Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.

I find it quite hard to connect with the songs where I portray myself as this clumsy, adorable, love-struck man-child.

For me, I've always wanted to portray roles that are empowering. Also, being empowering doesn't necessarily mean being strong all the time.

I like to portray things as close to the bone as possible.

People often portray me as Miss Hard Stuff. It hurts my feelings a lot.

I'm portrayed as this tough broad, but I'm not.

I think you have to be very secure as an actor to escape yourself - to revisit someone's past, whether you're portraying another person or creating someone, and then to come back to who you are and not bring those emotions with you.

Something 'Drag Race' is really good at is portraying us as artists but also human beings. And normal human beings don't know everything. They don't have all the answers.

Ports are the gaping hole in America's homeland security.

I don't know how to pose or anything.

I do feel pressure to look good. But that's just not going to happen, because I have a double chin, and I can't pose. It's such a struggle.

I don't think I'll ever be comfortable posing for a photographer; I was never trained.