Quotes About Vulnerability

I called my show 'Power' because, for me, the whole series is about the way my main character, Ghost, is power-less over his circumstances, even though he has almost endless access to money and guns.

There's never been a show where I did not literally offer my guts on that stage.

First love is ravaging - it just guts you in the most wonderful way, if you can see through it.

I want to say things on stage that I wouldn't have the guts to say in conversation.

I wonder sometimes if I've got in the habit of only being courageous when someone else has written the words I have to say.

There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

How many of the 'Fortune' 500 are hacked? 500.

Evil comes in through the cable and through the Internet. We look forward to the advent of driverless cars. But they can be hacked. You could be riding along, and some 14-year-old in Romania takes over your car, so you end up running the lights and losing your brakes or, worse, listening to Eminem. What's the purpose?

I think hacking's important. Most Americans should worry about it no matter what side of the aisle you're on.

Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.

I would leave halfway through a photoshoot, because I couldn't bear looking at myself or being in front of a camera. I used to feel disgusted in myself.

I can count on one hand the people I could call and who would be there for me.

creditors will go after the easiest target with the deepest pockets.

If you can't trust your can open, then what?

If you can't trust your can opener, then what? Is your wastebasket going to get you?

Be careful..you're all I've got left, to remind me who I really am.

Bravery is about overcoming fear, not about not having it.

She very rarely cried, but being brave all the time took an enormous amount of effort. Sometimes she just got tired of keeping everything together.

the poor don't have much in the way of money or possessions to steal—so it turns out that the most profitable thing to steal is the whole person.

She had a certain guarded melancholy, no doubt, but no despair (44).

For the hundreds of millions of the world's poorest people who live outside the protection of the rule of law, they principal reason they suffer abuse is often not the absence of good laws, but the absence of a functioning public justice system to enforce those laws.

You are probably not regularly being threatened with being enslaved, imprisoned, beaten, raped, or robbed. But if you were among the world's poorest billions, you would be.

What we dislike in others is often a weakness in our own lives.

Genuine service demands that we speak the truth in love. We do not serve each other by avoiding one another's weaknesses.