Quotes About Vulnerability

I wish I could write more make-believe. It's a lot easier to write about hard times and when things are going wrong. But I've never been a private person.

I'm such a private person, and sexuality is such a private thing. A sex scene is much harder than a fight scene. It's one thing to say, 'Kick higher,' but 'Kiss harder' - that's just crazy.

I'm a very private person. I find it very daunting to have to give private parts of myself away to people, you know?

It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical.

I was such a private person before I started 'The Talk.' I don't know what happened! It almost feels like I've started a second life. In my previous lifetime, I didn't talk about stuff. Now I'll discuss anything. It's crazy!

I've been privileged to be able to be a part of some of my girlfriends' lives at their breaking points.

Some people think the Nobel Prize makes you bullet-proof. I never had that illusion.

If people have got a problem with me, say it to me. If you're going to hurt my feelings, I'm going to point you out.

We come to church not to hide our problems but to heal them.

I think people found out I'm just like anybody else. I've got problems, too.

The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.

Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o'clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.

I have a producer friend who despairs that I come across as rather frosty and never show the real me, and she might have a point.

It's scary being in a room with producers and saying, 'Here's my idea,' when I'm scared to get shot down.

Bleachers comes from a different place. It's personal. It's just me putting myself out there as myself. It's very intense.

One of the reasons we stay so alone in our lives is because we're ashamed to talk about the hard stuff. It's as simple as that. We're all in pain in different ways, and we don't get the help we need because we're too ashamed to talk about the pain.

I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.

Acting is the most difficult job in the world.

One of the difficult things, especially about blogging, is that you put all of your personal out there, into the political. And what's been difficult, for me at least, is trying to keep some of the personal for myself.

I've made a career out of being able to talk about difficult things, and that comes from growing up in an environment where nothing was embarrassing.

I think one of the difficult things for me was that I was putting on a brave face for my loved ones; they were putting on a brave face for me. But what got lost in that was the ability to talk about our fear.

Usually what is difficult for me are things that make me feel scared. That's when difficulties rather than challenges arise.

We never made attempts to say we were anybody's role model or the be-all-end-all of what people should look up to. We have always just been very open about the fact that we have difficulties and we are messed-up people, just as our fans are.

Comedy is essentially about watching a bunch of people who you really love lose their dignity.