Quotes About Vulnerability

Dancing hurts, like physically is painful, but being the Bachelor is an emotionally - it's a lot of emotional pain.

Oh, humiliation is poisonous. It's one of the deepest pains of being human.

I always feel attacked when I'm asked about my painting.

Moving all-in with a small pair from early position only makes sense when you are severely short-stacked and desperately need to pick up the blinds.

My life is an open pamphlet.

At sleepovers I would have panic attacks trying to break it to girls that they didn't want to kiss me without outing myself.

In 'Next to Normal,' I had millions of breakdowns and panic attacks, but nobody ever heard about those.

I always panic on the first day of work. You can do all the Stanislavsky-backstory homework, but when that moment arrives and you are in the clothes, hair, and makeup of somebody else, and you're saying the words created by somebody else - I never know how to do it. It's a complete mystery to me.

Once you've had a panic attack you live in fear that another one is going to come. From the second it's gone, every moment every day is about the next one.

Papa loved to have me show off my scars.

I have files, I have computer files and, you know, files on paper. But most of it is really in my head. So God help me if anything ever happens to my head!

Boxing has parallels with stand-up, because you're on your own. If a boxer gets knocked out in the first round, it's humiliating.

Clear communication is paramount for any relationship to become stronger.

Horror of any kind is dependent on a certain amount of insecurity and paranoia from the audience. And it feeds on that and works on that.

I'm really ultra-affected by things, I feel things deeper, and I cry at the drop of a hat, and offended and sensitive and I'm almost paranoid very easily, and that's who I am.

I became paranoid for a long time: I thought that people were out to harm me.

It's really difficult seeing your role model or your parent cry.

It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.

If I'd been a parent to myself, I would have been scared because I was only ever interested in my own thoughts.

Mental health is an area where people are embarrassed. They don't want to talk about it because somehow they feel they're a failure as a parent or, you know, they're embarrassed for their child or they want to protect their child, lots of very good reasons, but mental health, I feel, is something that you have to talk about.

I think that in order to parent effectively, we are going to have to admit two things: We can't keep our children safe. We can't accept the fact that we can't keep our children safe.

You can't go into parenthood as a battle wearing armour. It doesn't work that way.

We go into parenting, and we discover that we don't have the answers. We are at a loss.

I want to speak directly to the audience, to say, 'I'm like you - I'm frustrated, I'm not an expert, I don't have a manual on parenting, I make mistakes, I'm selfish too.'