Quotes About Vulnerability

I'm very passionate, very emotional, very sensitive. I've always been like that.

The homeless often lose trust in people: in the hospital doctors, who had no choice but to discharge them back on to the streets, and in the family members from whom they have become estranged. Their past use of the NHS can make it difficult to patch together a full medical history.

I feel like athletes lean into this indestructible character. But unless you're doing something really shady, no one nails every day of their life. You're always going to have rough patches.

I am really rather like a beautiful Jersey cow, I have the same pathetic droop to the corners of my eyes.

I'm always a little passive and can come across as being pathetic.

I'm drawn towards people who have a little pathos and a little dark side, and I feel the same towards fictional characters.

If there is a moment when it is possible to intervene in the chaotic life of a homeless person, it is when they turn up as an NHS patient.

A smartphone links patients' bodies and doctors' computers, which in turn are connected to the Internet, which in turn is connected to any smartphone anywhere. The new devices could put the management of an individual's internal organs in the hands of every hacker, online scammer, and digital vandal on Earth.

When I look at the patients that I've cared for with mental illness, I know that many of them took years to come forward and tell somebody that they were in pain and that they needed help.

Actors, by very definition, we want people to pay attention to us, and so usually, that comes in the package of insecurity. So if we're not comfortable, we don't really show you a lot.

Seven out of 10 Americans are one paycheck away from being homeless.

I wouldn't inflict my naked body on any paying audience.

When the image that I built around the first album was crumbling, it was scary: the risk pays off, but the resonances of that risk are not always easy to deal with.

I've always known I bruise like a peach.

As soon as you're put on a pedestal, you're easily knocked off it.

I think we do people a great disservice by putting them on a pedestal and not allowing them to be human.

In the gay world, and in drag in particular, they love to put you on a pedestal and then two minutes later rip you down.

As a writer, I always peel back the layers, go to the most sensitive places uncomfortably close to the heart.

Our babies are like penguins; penguin babies can't exist unless more than one person is taking care of them. They just can't keep going.

I'm blind in my left eye. Contrary to what people say, it is not a glass eye, so I have to protect my eyes at all cost.

It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.

Acting itself is quite scary. Some people say that actors are show-offs, very egotistical and all that kind of stuff, but it is quite scary.

About one or two songs per record is me doing a little bloodletting.

My job is to put myself out there. It's beyond my control how I'm perceived.