Quotes About Vulnerability

When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.

I think you have to ask questions that are scary to ask, and you cannot apologize for that, and you cannot worry what anyone else thinks about your journey.

When I was younger, I was very thick-skinned - my skin is actually getting thinner as I get older.

Americans are no less susceptible to disease, joblessness, and family changes than their peers in rich nations, but they are made more fragile by these crises. The country has a thinner safety net, fewer public goods, and less social insurance than other countries.

'Writing' always means 'not writing' to me because I will do anything to put it off. I think this is mainly because writing anything down and then handing it over to a third party - especially in comedy - is such an exposing act that you naturally want to delay the process.

I've always known if anything killed me, it would be boys. From the time I was a teenager into my thirties, I loved only the ones who were bad news.

I'm the most awkward person in the world, but onstage, I'm completely fine. I could run around in a thong and not care.

You cannot show people only the petals and not the thorns. It's not fair to them.

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

For among other evils caused by being disarmed, it renders you contemptible; which is one of those disgraceful things which a prince must guard against.

My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.

Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.

How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought.

Being a sensitive, thoughtful person opens you up for criticism and being affected by it.

I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.

None of us have pure thoughts; we all live in glass houses.

I don't think even when you find a person, you can be completely honest, ever. There's still pieces of you that you don't give away. I do believe you always need that place where it's just you, your thoughts, no one else's judgment or anything.

It's only when I'm on stage that I really come to terms with the fact that other people are hearing my most inner, darkest thoughts.

One of my first thoughts I had when I started considering the mastectomy was, 'What am I going to look like?' And then, 'What will my husband think?'

It's easier to shut yourself off outside than reveal your inner thoughts.

I mean, I don't like sitting at a table with seven or eight people asking me questions and kind of listening to what I'm doing - scrutinizing my thoughts and things like that. I just don't like it. I can't understand how anyone would.

I am not altogether confident of my ability to put my thoughts into words: My texts are usually better after an editor has hacked away at them, and I am used to both editing and being edited. Which is to say that I am not oversensitive in such matters.

Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.

I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed.