Quotes About Vulnerability

Control meant not only taking care of myself but living in a much less protected world. And doing that meant growing a tough skin.

Oddly, I feel more protected when I write in Italian, even though I'm also more exposed.

If you talk to anyone who's done a stair fall, there's not one stair fall, no matter how many pads you have on or how protected you are, where you don't hurt something really bad.

A world in which there are no secrets that can be protected at all is going to be a pretty dangerous world.

Sometimes, yeah, I wish I would have protected my heart a little more, absolutely.

I wish I had put myself out there a little bit more and experienced people more instead of protecting myself.

Our government is not protecting us. They are exploiting us.

It's hard to know which made me more aware of the impossibility of protecting children - having a child die or having had two live.

All actors are protecting something, in their own way, that happens in front of a camera.

For my part, let me be clear: protecting those in society most at risk of harm, those crushed at the bottom of the heap, those who have been abused by the very people who should have looked after them, is, as home secretary, my job, but I also see it is as my moral duty.

Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.

I always seem to feel that everything is about to cave in on me. I think that maybe music is my protection from that and in some senses it's an outlet to turn it into something euphoric: embracing the eventual decline.

When we have built up armor against all the bad things we think might happen in the world, we have a false sense of protection and have only built up isolation.

I fear cops and have never felt the protection of them.

I am definitely not under British protection. I have to protect myself. I am not M.I.6. I am not C.I.A. I am not anything.

When I was a child, I was very shy and insecure. My mother was very over protective of me. I was a dreamer.

I'm very protective of how much I let people see.

My concerts are about me being very private in public, but I'm very protective.

Nudity is who people are at the most interesting point of the evening, when they take off their protective layer, when no one is watching.

When people don't like the film, I can take a bullet. I don't mind you talking about me, but I'm protective of my actors, because they bared their soul for me.

I sometimes get very protective of the people I play.

I am protective of my own personal life, but I must confess that I enjoy watching people that don't mind telling it all.

To me, being creative is a very fragile thing. The environment in which one can create is a very particular one, and somehow, I've always felt the need to be very protective of that.

Well, I don't have a father, so there's no daddy being protective of the daughter.