Quotes About Vulnerability

I'd be a very easy therapist's subject.

I see a therapist, I cry a lot.

I didn't know many people in London and became depressed, ending up in therapy. One day, the therapist called me Josh instead of Jacob, and I was mortified. I was telling this woman things I'd never told anyone, and she didn't even know my name.

It's cool to express myself, but I've had to learn that doing interviews isn't completely therapy - spilling everything about yourself isn't healthy all the time. But I've been through things that have made me a stronger person, and if I can help some people, I will.

I had massive anxiety as a child. I was in therapy. From 8 to 10, I was borderline agora-phobic. I could not leave my mom's side. I don't really have panic attacks anymore, but I had really bad anxiety.

All of these guys who went through rehab have done so much therapy and so much work on themselves that they're totally open to talking about anything because they've done a lot of healing. You have to respect that.

If you have ever been to couples therapy it's really, really challenging.

Songwriting is like a therapy, it's a connection that you have with another person, and I'm not scared of it at all for some reason.

Now, performing is second nature and I love every second of it. It is a very emotional thing when I can't play a song; maybe I'm hitting on something that I don't want to deal with. All of it is so personal. It is like therapy.

I know the one time I tried therapy, I did after a month or two, and I only lasted a few months, because I started to worry about being entertaining. I kept driving there once a week for an hour and I'm thinking 'What am I going to talk about today?'

I honestly, purposely have not gone to therapy because I know some crazy stuff's going to be dragged up and, you know, I'll be like, 'Wait, what?'

As a child I was not allowed to express my feelings, so I had to go back through therapy and express the child's pain.

I'm not afraid to admit I have therapy. It's nothing to be ashamed of, and it really does help.

He behaved like an ostrich and put his head in the sand, thereby exposing his thinking parts.

Nobody likes to be found out, not even one who has made ruthless confession a part of his profession. Any autobiographer, therefore, at least between the lines, spars with his reader and potential judge.

Jayalalithaa was brutalised from the age of 16 in the cinema world. She therefore bears a psychotic pleasure in humiliating people as she was humiliated. She was deadened to normal human emotions.

The pain comes from knowing that we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never be so ignorant again. It comes from knowing we can never be children again. Losing innocence. Remembering heaven. That was the essence of hell.

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

A person can destroy me with two words. It can just be the way they say them, the inflection.

I tend to be very private. It's easier for me. When you're acting, you're very susceptible to comments that somebody makes, so if they know something is going to happen on the show, and they say something, it can actually throw you off. So I tend to not share things with anybody.

I'm as thick as a plank.

I was skinny. I wore thick glasses. I had acne.

I don't think I have thick skin, but I heal fast. It's easy to break through, but I heal fast.

I have a thick skin, but I have a heart.