Quotes About Vulnerability

I love doing great entertainment, but I like the joke to be on me. I don't want to take advantage of some poor person and dog 'em out and let the chips fall.

I work with a cause called the Somaly Mam Foundation, and that is my purpose in life, above anything else. Everything that I do, I'm thinking about girls. As strong as we are, we're also sensitive, and I feel like men take advantage of that.

A man in a position of power over me used that said power to try and take advantage of me.

People who can't take advantage of opportunity take advantage of people.

It's true that people will take advantage of you in Nigeria, but this happens everywhere in the world.

Don't let people take advantage of you because they will.

When people come back and they try and prey and take advantage of somebody that's coming back and redeeming and regaining, it kind of messes with my head.

The biggest message I want to get out is that a lot of us live in a bubble, and we think things can't happen to us, but they do. When it does happen to you, take care of yourself, and then get up.

If you're going to be that kind of actor and go way out there, it's really important to take care of yourself and have a safe place, whatever that is.

Unless I have my aunt or my boyfriend to take care of me, I'm a little pathetic.

Your heart... it's a very fragile muscle. You have to take care of it, be old-fashioned about it.

You can become quite blase, and also, I have no sense of home; I don't have roots. I've never had that feeling that someone else is going to take care of me, ever. I don't trust people.

I've always been concerned with what happens to children in our society when there's nobody left to take care of them.

This is why I became an actress. So that people will take care of me. To be an actress is a refuge. You are taken everywhere, stay in wonderful hotels, everyone looks after you.

We need to protect people with pre-existing conditions, and we need to make sure that we have a safety net for people that can't take care of themselves.

When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously. He's not from another planet, or filled with radioactive gunk. I mean, Superman is essentially a god, but Batman is more like Hercules: he's a human being, very flawed, and bridges the divide.

All the reading in the world cannot immunize you from the devastating effects of psychopaths. Everyone, including the experts, can be taken in, conned, and left bewildered by them. A good psychopath can play a concerto on anyone's heart strings.

It's embarrassing standing in front of the camera and getting your picture taken.

Anything that's given to you can be taken away from you at any time.

Athletic ability can be taken away like that. It can all end in a heartbeat.

It's taken a lot of years for me to learn how to share my story.