Quotes About Vulnerability

I wish I could unknow this, but there is a perception of me that I'm super-sensitive and fragile. And I am super-sensitive, and I don't think that that's a bad thing. To do what I do, I have to remain open.

Sometimes I think that when people become famous, there's a public perception that they are not human beings any more. They don't have feelings; they don't get hurt; you can act and say as you like about them.

I'm happy to be human, and being human means we aren't perfect.

Responsibility for me is to be myself - which is not perfect.

I'm not perfect at all.

Perfect people are the scariest people to me.

I am an open book, and I'm fine being me: I'm not a perfect person.

You don't want to play a perfect person; no one cares about that.

There was a time I was willing to be a clown for people who I felt were the perfect person for me.

I'm very open and honest, and I feel like it's important for women to hear that we're not perfect; none of us are perfect. And sometimes we aspire to have these ideas in our heads of what perfection is, and I probably would've been better off if I'd left myself alone.

I've learned how my own perfectionism can cripple me.

As a dancer, it's hard because there's such a perfectionist quality that you really have to let go of while you're acting, because nobody wants to a watch a perfect person on screen.

I am unfortunately a perfectionist at heart, so it's really hard to allow myself to not be good.

I tell myself that my body is not robotic and it doesn't behave perfectly, and... things can go wrong that are out of your control.

To be perfectly honest, if it was up to me, I would be invisible as an artist.

The need to be right can arise from a fear of being disrespected. Or it may come out of the fear of being seen as we really are: as flawed human beings who are perfectly imperfect and full of contradictions and confusions.

As a person who performs on stage, it's good to be emotionally open. If you mess with someone when they are in that state, it's like you're messing with an animal when it's eating.

When I perform on stage I become those male bullies, those dominators from my childhood. That's probably why it's so scary, because they scared me.

As a comic, I've heard gunshots while I'm trying to get to sleep. I've performed where people wanted to do you harm after the show because of something you said.

It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer.

I'm not a natural born performer.

I figured if I played in the no-man's land of intimacy, I would learn to be a performer.

There's definitely a loneliness and, like, an internal element to being a performer.

I'm still a really shy performer and can't wear high heels and need to be with bare feet.