Quotes About Vulnerability

I think, early on, I was very distrustful of authority yet needed a lot of approval from it. I was in that kind of bind. Which is a kind of abuse bind.

I want to show people my successful side, but I want to show you my bipolar side, too.

Birth is the scariest event of most peoples' lives. You have to feel safe enough in your own mind before you can remember your own birth.

You never know what state you're going to be in after giving birth.

Birth is such an emotional thing.

When your touch goes, it starts biting into your confidence as well.

No one wants to see my bits jiggling.

When you find that person that's your person, you see all the good bits and the bad bits and love them completely anyway.

I tell the audience bits of my rude life on stage so they don't mind telling me bits of theirs.

I can't make a perfect record. When I try to, I bleed all the feeling out of it.

I'm just a guy. If you hit me, I hurt, and if you cut me, I bleed.

I hate it when you see in films people with their anoraks flapping open in a blizzard. They'd be dead in a couple of minutes. It's got to be real. It's got to work.

Acting is bloody scary.

I have one of those bodies that is just a little more injury-prone.

I don't think children are any more resilent than anyone else. They're just people with little bodies.

I kill myself for my body.

I'm not a security-type person: I don't want to have bodyguards around me. I'm not into all that.

As you begin to develop real relationships and bonds it gets harder because sometimes you say things to people and hurt their feelings and you really care about them.

As we all know from the Roman empire, big empires go down if the borders are not well-protected.

There are so many professional women who have to be this boss, but when they get home, it's like, 'Can someone take care of me? Can I not be so powerful?'

Only once did someone talking about my appearance bother me.

To not have the wherewithal to give fully to a relationship bothered me.

I used to bottle things up.

People who don't have experience setting healthy boundaries, they have secrets instead.