Quotes About Vulnerability

The protected place in space and time that we once called childhood has grown shorter.

The first time that she spread her legs for him it had been like opening her jaws for the dentist.

The whole bullying issue has really struck a nerve with me. It affects so many different types of people at a vital time in their lives.

For the time it takes to make the film, you are treated like a cosseted pet. Then the process is over, and you're hung out to dry. It's like being a mink.

By the time I'm nine I know the world is a dangerous place. I've heard whispers about razorblades in apples, about Charlie Manson and his family. But no one is offering any clear information.

I think it's important that we don't all have to hold our heads high all the time saying everything's fine.

I believe in whatever gets you throught the night. [...] Night is the hardest time to be alive. For me, anyway. It lasts so long, and four A.M.knows all my secrets.

Every adult in the world has some sense that he or she might be obliterated at any time by these weapons that we have created.

Every time I went on stage I was so terrified I almost threw up.

I'll cry anywhere because I can do it quite subtly. Walking, that's a good time to have a cry.

These days, insecure in our relationships and anxious about intimacy, we look to technology for ways to be in relationships and protect ourselves from them at the same time.

I've seen every one, from Motley Crue to John Denver, with tears running down my face. I had no idea everyone had such a hard time.

Everyone acts stupid at some time in order to be loved.

Linda Hamilton is my hero. She was so tough and so strong and so vulnerable at the same time. I think that's what woman action figures are allowed to be: vulnerable, in a way that women are.

O why do I ever let anyone read what I write! Every time I have to go through a breakfast with a letter of criticism I swear I will write for my own praise or blame in future. It is a misery.

I want people to be ecstatic but to cry at the same time.

At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other.

I'm a guy, but I'm not afraid to cry. Not all of the time. But when I'm watching a movie, I'll sometimes shed a tear, especially 'Moulin Rouge'.

Think long and hard before offering your heart to someone who can only accept it part-time

You are exposing yourself all the time as an actor. There's the risk of being thought of as bad or boring or unattractive.

If you asked me to go back to being 14 or 15, I couldn't - it was a terrifying time. I was so awkward in my own skin. I used to hide behind my hair because I was so ridiculously self-conscious.

The thing about doing anything artificial to your hair is that you have to look after it. So you're always vulnerable to the weather and time

When I was a child, I used to cry all the time.

We are all products of our time, vulnerable to history.