Quotes About Vulnerability

Basically, I thought I had nothing to lose so I'd try my luck as a stand-up comedian. So even if it all failed, I was at the bottom of the food-chain anyway.

I think as an actor, you're constantly putting yourself out there, and a lot of times failing - and failing in front of a bunch of people - and sometimes you have a good moment and something clicks.

There's something about being a comedian that means you have to not be scared of failing because failing is part of the process.

I want to display my failures at every turn, and ultimately I want to lead by example.

If I told people that I knew what I was doing, nobody would believe me, so why even try and fake it?

If you have parents who can't show you love, a kid can grow up to look arrogant. Because they need to create a fake self. Or they think they're more powerful than they really are.

I have a great sensitivity to kids. I have a great sensitivity to the people that fall between the cracks.

I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.

I've fallen over on stage a couple of times, but I've only ever bruised my ego.

I like the stage challenges of having somebody literally falling apart before your very eyes.

Falling in front of an audience - that's, like, my biggest fear.

My biggest fear is, I mean, kind of what happened. Like falling for somebody and ready to spend my life with somebody and have them not be ready or to be like, 'I don't know if you're the one for me.'

No one ever wants to be the girl that got her relationship wrong again, but if you let your cynicism take over you risk never falling in love.

I can't do anything else. So if this falls through, I'm screwed.

The dew of compassion is a tear.

Music can tear me up inside.

The reviewers tear me apart. I bleed. I'm a favorite target. They go along for six months looking at movies, praying for rain, and then a new Sandra Dee movie comes out, and their eyes open, and they lick their lips. Before they've ever seen it.

I'm empathetic to a fault. I really do - embarrassingly enough - tear up when someone squishes a bug in front of me.

I can't get through some movies without shedding a tear; I can't lie.

Lies suck; they tear you apart from the inside out.

Terence Crawford has always had a short fuse. Terence would get so angry that his eyes would well up and he would tear up. People looked at him like he was soft. But they didn't understand. That's how his anger comes out.

Reading nice stuff about you is lovely, but I know it's going to be soul-destroying when you do something that everyone is tearing apart.

My job consists of getting on stage and tearing my chest open and letting people into parts of my life that I would prefer to keep to myself. But I also think that's what connects me with a lot of our fans.

There's something healing about tears.