Quotes About Vulnerability

I have to go out for lunch and dinner because I can't cook. I need a woman to come and save me from my cooking.

I wanted people to hear directly from me that I have been diagnosed with ALS.

Sometimes the directors were afraid of what they brought out of me.

A lot of young directors, they're not confident; they're not open to the emotional level of the scene.

I'm comfortable airing my laundry. I don't think one thing's dirty or clean. It's just what I wear.

I've got more bruises and scars on my legs than should be there. And I'm a physical person. That's why I like action movies. I like to get real into it all and get real down and dirty.

Obviously when you do start with a two-shot lead you feel like you should win, but a two-shot lead is nothing really. It can disappear really fast.

When I was about eight, my mom started disappearing for days at a time, probably with one of the guys she was dating. There would be no food.

You only get disappointed with who you trust the most.

As I got older, I gave myself the space to be human and to have a minute and be disappointed and feel whatever I'm feeling.

It's the writer's job to disarm the reader of his logic, to just make the reader feel.

I can't cook to save my life. I'm a disaster.

You want roles that challenge you and that scare you a little and where you can really discover something, even about yourself, that maybe you didn't understand.

So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong.

I'm not afraid to be bluntly honest in my songs, even if it means I'm discovering things about myself that I'd rather not.

If we know it's happening, and we're not having the discussion, we're contributing to the problem of making it seem like people can't open up.

Our best comes out when we have honest discussions.

Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to draw. It's more revealing. You can't disguise yourself in drawing.

I'm not sure why I'm so often disgusting on stage. I don't always know where it comes from.

I've always had a problem saying what I feel for fear of having someone dislike me.

Love or hate me, like or dislike me, laugh at me or cry with me, I have always shown you who I really am.

Honestly, I never thought I would ever tell anyone that I had an eating disorder. It was my deepest, darkest secret.

My job is to show our humanity, and the only way to be leading with that sort of humanity is to lead with the problems that a family like this might be encountering and putting those on display.

My work is always on display, and my life is always on display when I make my work.