Quotes About Vulnerability

When you love someone, they have a piece of you, one of the most important pieces of you, and that's your heart. And when you decide to love freely and love hard - like I do myself - that's a risk that you're taking - getting hurt.

There are individuals who can support you, but frequently, you have to risk putting yourself out there - and sometimes you just have to push.

When I am linked with close friends, it affects my friendship with them, and that's upsetting.

As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it loses something.

I discovered that the world frightens you with your shortcomings, but if you do not worry about it, you are liberated.

I play roles that frighten me as an actor.

I think people are frightened by different things, so I don't see myself as particularly courageous.

Actors are frightened little children.

Bullies are just frightened people.

I'm too frightened to go on 'Celebrity Mastermind.' You really are shown up. Just you and a chair - there's no way out.

There's something frightening about finding a woman who would take your heart.

My real self is probably more creative and more frightening than any sort of drink or drug-induced state.

Criticism is frightening.

It's frightening to go onto a stage, particularly in the first few days.

I'm not scared to sing songs. I'm not scared to walk out the front door and make a mistake.

It is so frustrating to feel in danger. People have followed me around at 2 in the morning and have literally said, 'Don't make me follow you. You're not responding to me.' It's incredibly degrading.

I am both so beaten up and bolstered up - I've gotten so many criticisms and accolades - that the fulfillment happens on the floor in front of the camera, not when the project comes out.

We repress the things we're scared of, but if we just look at and embrace the things we're scared of, it's a much fuller, richer life that's also not as scary.

It's never really fun to have to cry in a scene or anything like that.

A fundamental lesson on being fired: Never lie about it. People will know what you're saying is a cover-up for how you really feel - embarrassed, discouraged, and afraid.

I remember watching that scene in 'My Girl' where Anna Chlumsky cries at a funeral. I would cry with her and be like, 'Yeah, I think I could do that. I could do a funeral scene.'

You know we are flawed people, so if someone is going to make a movie about me, they don't have to make it up. My real flaws are much funnier.

Woman has nothing but her affections,--and this makes her at once more loving and less loved.

Estás enojado conmigo? (Joséphine) - ¿Debería estarlo? (Alamán) - Si. Te traté muy fríamente cuando llegué. - Muy fríamente. - Discúlpame. - ¿Por qué lo hiciste? - Ya te lo dije ayer, en casa. Porque tengo miedo de que me lastimes. - Ya te lo dije ayer, en tu casa: jamás te lastimaría. - Eso dicen todos. - Yo no soy todos.