Quotes About Vulnerability

I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security.

I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.

I am subject to very powerful lows. When you have highs, you have terrible lows. When you pinpoint that you are responsible for everything that happens to you, it is very frightening.

I like attractive people who aren't so terribly aware that they are attractive... people who aren't afraid to roll on the floor and make fools out of themselves.

I was a bit of a coward when I was small. I was terribly frightened of the dark.

I think my biggest flaw is my insecurity. I'm terribly insecure. I'm plagued with insecurities 24/7.

As a comedian, it really gelled when I started doing standup. Because standup is so much about bravery, especially in the early days. There is no doubt that it is going to go terribly for you over and over and over again. But you cannot get funny without bombing.

I think men are afraid to be with a successful woman, because we are terribly strong, we know what we want and we are not fragile enough.

I've always dreaded the sea - in fact, I get terribly seasick.

I'm terribly human.

When I first started auditioning I would stutter a lot because I was so terribly frightened.

I'm really honestly terrified about how much I should tell and how much I should still keep secret.

Most of my life I was particularly terrified of speaking up, because I had a speech impediment, which made it difficult to pronounce certain letters, sounds, and I felt like I was fine writing on the page, but once I got on stage, I was worried my words might jumble and stumble.

I was never that comfortable in front of the camera, it always terrified me.

Always, when I get onto horseback, I'm kind of terrified of being up there.

We blush very, very easily, and we get terrified of audiences.

I wasn't afraid of anything until I had a kid. Then I was terrified because immediately I could imagine a hundred ways in which I could not protect him.

I'm terrified of losing my voice.

I actually had an experience where I thought somebody was breaking into my house. That's got to be the most terrified I've ever been in my life. I don't know if that's saying much. The fear, especially as a female in a house by yourself, was horrible.

I'm terrified to go in lakes because you can't see the bottom, and not knowing what's there watching you is really scary to me.

All of my friends are like, 'Look at me when I was a little kid. I was so cute!' and it's a picture of them in a tutu. I'm so terrified to show them my pictures, because it's me in boy shorts and a ponytail and my brother's shirt.

I'm always terrified when I'm writing.

I've never given a speech without being terrified first.

I was three. My father in jest said that he'd tell the doctor to give me a shot if I didn't behave. Good heavens, I have a mental picture of the living room and the doctor approaching the door. I was terrified.