Quotes About Vulnerability

All my life I had feared imprisonment, the nun's cell, the hospital bed, the places where one faced the self without distraction, without the crutches of other people.

If you are in a play, and you catch a cold, you are able to muddle through. If you are carrying a musical, it's a different thing altogether. It's the great fear of any singer's life.

Life cracked like ice!

I can look back on my life, where there have been moments where things might have gone the other way. Everything is like stepping stones, and I've seen people I admire falter. We're all vulnerable.

I took my life in my hands and social media has just helped me do that more.

Death is an absolute mystery. We are all vulnerable to it, it's what makes life interesting and suspenseful.

I think we seek out people who we hope will fix what our childhood broke.

Life tears at us and scars us as children so we adopt facades and masks to hide this part of us, to keep this sacred part of ourselves from the pain.

I would be a horrible girlfriend at this point in my life, because I'm both needy and unavailable.

People are screwed up in this world. I'd rather be with someone screwed up and open about it than somebody perfect and ready to explode.

The film [Dream of Life] doesn't hide anything, except maybe moments of sorrow or darkness that belonged to me.

We pretend to be strong because we are weak.

Thinking that being a good, decent, respectable person will mean that others will see you as weak, vulnerable, and easy to manipulate.

The Warrior of the Light knows that everyone is afraid of everyone else.

If you hide behind the things you don't want to talk about then you're going to feel insecure in all aspects of your life.

I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them

When I came out in the public about my struggles with alcohol and drugs, that's probably the most vulnerable I have ever been in my entire life.

My life has appeared unclothed in court, detail by detail, death-bone witness by death-bone witness, and I was shamed at the verdict.

Whenever you see a toad jumping in broad daylight, then know that something is after its life.

The most powerful person in your life is the one that knows all your secrets and all your lies.

The life of an actor is a bit easier to take if you admit you're bonkers.

I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that and I am open enough to say it.

I'm certainly not ashamed to say that I was on some anti-depressant medications. I believe there are times in life where we have to raise our hand and say I need help. I found a good doctor.

There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.