Quotes About Vulnerability

I guess I'm about ready to promote myself in a more human way. I don't feel quite so insecure.

Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.

Creative people are more prone to depression.

Every time that I'm in the dark, I imagine what might be lurking in the shadows. It's kind of like a drug in that way - darkness seems to change the way I think - making me way more prone to fear.

I am very up front about about my inability to pronounce things correctly.

I'm still here, living proof that sometimes it's OK to admit to your fallibility.

You can't be a proper comic unless you've been out on stage and felt the fear.

It is a scary world out there, and believe me that if someone were to try to come into my house, I want to be able to protect myself.

No amount of humanitarian assistance can protect people from being attacked.

I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments.

I've learned more and more to just protect myself and avoid things that'll hurt my feelings.

When Finley gets his vaccinations, it kills me, and you can't protect yourself from that. My heart is being ripped out with every shot. It's a deeper level of emotion that I wasn't prepared to feel, but it's completely amazing. It has opened me up both as a person and as an actress. Everything has a deeper meaning now.

Everybody has a bit of body armor they wear to protect themselves, and love is about trying to break it down. You have to see who a person really is and connect with her to break that armor.

We are all, in a sense, experts on secrecy. From earliest childhood we feel its mystery and attraction. We know both the power it confers and the burden it imposes. We learn how it can delight, give breathing space and protect.

A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm.

Our house is made of glass... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves.

You constantly felt like you wanted to protect her and that you wanted to save her and that's what made her attractive more so to women than even to men. That's why she's still with us. Marilyn Monroe never offended a woman.

It's as if our electric grid didn't even have fences around it. This is disgraceful what we do, and what we don't do, to protect the Internet.

Try letting a Kindle protect your heart from sniper fire!

When something's wrong, even though you're the one doing it, you shouldn't feel defensive about it. It's hard because you have to protect yourself as a person in your life, but you can't protect yourself as an actor. You have to just take criticism.

Life has to be protected. It is precarious. I would even go so far as to say that precarious life is, in a way, a Jewish value for me.

When you're in the head of the character, you feel less self-conscious. If I was just being me, I would feel so exposed and be like, 'Why is there a huge camera in my face?' But, when you're believing in the person that you're playing, you feel protected. It's about being true to that person you're playing.

What I love about acting is trying things and screwing up, then trying again, all in this protected little bubble. That's living the dream.

I think you miss out on a lot of stuff when you're so protected and isolated.