Quotes About Vulnerability

All you have to offer as a performer is yourself.

I want to work with performers who really are ready to lose their minds, you know? People who are established and have talent, but who are ready to break new ground and really be cracked open in a new way.

All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.

Most people don't think of actors and people like us that are performers and out in the world as introverts, but I like to know I can trust someone first.

I think what actors have to do, what performers have to do to emotionally get to that place and have a camera and have your face 20 feet high on a screen, is such an incredible thing.

We're not very confident performers, and if we don't get a laugh we get insecure.

Performing with anthrax in the building is not nearly as difficult as performing in a home where you might get stabbed at night.

Sometimes you go to a show, and you see someone and think they're not there right now. They're performing, but it's muscle memory. There is no memorising some of the ways we put on a show.

I'm more comfortable performing in front of 50,000 people than five people - it's easier. When there's that many people, I feel like I'm alone. When I perform in front of only a few people, it's scary.

Anything that loosens you up and makes you freer is good, because that's what acting and performing is all about - being free. It gives you a better connection to the audience.

Earlier on in my career I felt that I had to hide behind a lot of different masks, and showboat ways of performing. Now, that's a lie. The less I have to hide, the less I have to act.

The gold iridescent 'Naked' outfit is perhaps not my finest moment.

I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sexuality. I was gay.

I am an honest person, and that includes showing my emotions - good or bad.

I don't think that I'm broken at all. I no longer think that I'm a mess. I just think I'm a deeply feeling person in a messy world.

You can only really open yourself up so far to someone that you don't truly love - you keep something back when you know somewhere in your gut that this relationship is going to be forever.

Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.

Not only is the old man twice a child, but also the man who is drunk.

Al retirarse la marea, como suele decir Warren Buffett, se ve quién estaba nadando desnudo y quién no.

Man alone at the very moment of his birth, cast naked upon the naked earth, does she abandon to cries and lamentations.

Let me into the secrets you would prefer no one to know.

You know you've checked into Heartbreak Hotel for real when you feel less desirable than uncooked fish.

So they cut their hair short in front, that their enemies might not grasp it. And they say that Alexander of Macedon for the same reason ordered his generals to have the beards of the Macedonians shaved, because they were a convenient handle for the enemy to grasp.

And he used to say that sleep and sexual intercourse, more than any thing else, made him conscious that he was mortal, implying that both weariness and pleasure arise from one and the same natural weakness.