Quotes About Vulnerability

It's a little gross to put yourself in every song. I mean, how interesting do people really think you are?

I'm a gross human being.

To be a comic, you must reveal yourself in your most grotesque nudity. And it's only then, when the truth gets told, when the audience recognizes it somewhere in themselves, that they get that great medicine of laughter.

Nothing is so dangerous for our security as large groups of desperate people.

With big, emotional roles it's very easy, especially if you've grown up in the American school of acting, to exploit your own pain. You have to be careful about that, because 9 times out of 10, your pain is not appropriate to the character.

Grown-ups are afraid for children. It's not children who are afraid.

Love is not guaranteed.

When you drop your guard in films, the acting process compensates. You get lazy and you start acting.

When you're a 'product' for a lot of people, they're only really after one thing, and so it's hard to completely let down your guard.

People let their guard down a little more when they're eating.

Letting your guard down and the world into your home is very risky, I know.

We have to lower our guard and know saying something's wrong isn't a bad thing.

Unfortunately, I've been burned a lot. So I have my guard up.

I've got a long list of things I consider to be selling out. But amongst that list, one of them is when you make art without putting your guard down.

I think you have to be guarded but not closed off.

I can't be so guarded up all the time. I know it's not healthy.

You're a sitting duck in a mall if you're a celebrity. It's like that scene from 'Guarding Tess,' I think it is, where Shirley MacLaine goes to the mall just to feel good about her celebrity.

I think we should let our guards down a little bit more.

I think part of what makes someone a great actor is being able to walk into a situation emotionally available and open, and have all your guards down, and just have that level of trust and security in yourself to know that you could walk out on that limb with someone else and be safe.

No one's fearless. We're all full of fear. But can your fear guide you or lean into it, embrace it.

There is so much shame and guilt in our society, and I think it has deprived a lot of people from living fully. We are all facing battles... We've all had someone who has hurt us. So let's talk about it.

You go from nobody looking at you to people taking second looks. I remember really loving it - and then feeling so guilty for loving it. Like, 'That's gross, Kristen.' Also, telling myself it could go away at any moment, and I'd be so sad.

I feel weird talking about it, because how can I, as the guitar player of Slipknot, sit here and say, 'Oh, I have trouble.' You know what I mean?

I'm not comfortable around guns.