Quotes About Vulnerability

What's really important to me is somebody who can totally let loose and pretty much be themselves and have fun.

Many experts are concerned that the parents who need safe havens the most are the least likely to use them.

I agree with my mother that having children removes a layer of skin that you never grow back.

Because at bottom, I'm interested in fear, and in courage and cowardice and these are easier to get at through fiction, where you can enter people's heads.

Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.

It is certainly true that as we grow older, our need for healthcare also grows. It is also true that those who have lived their lives in the most difficult circumstances and experienced the most exhausting and challenging work places need healthcare the most.

I always felt like I was healthy; I never felt like anything was wrong with me. Until the morning that I had a massive heart attack. On the golf course, by myself.

I'd see an old person on the street and start crying. I couldn't understand how people could cope, knowing they only had so long left. It would be like dominoes and then the last one fell and I'm a little heap on the floor. Doctors put me on anti-depressants for a couple of years.

When I was a child, I dreaded blindness. We used to ask: 'Would we rather be blind or deaf?' I said I'd rather be blind, even though I was scared of it. I couldn't bear not being able to hear music or talk to people.

You hear people say, 'Well, I was going to say this, but I knew I couldn't get through it without crying.' Well, like, think of all the great things we didn't hear because of that.

Whenever I think I'm going to get certain information out of a person, it's never as effective or comfortable as just having an open conversation, listening to them, being present, and being open to hearing something I didn't even know they were going to say.

I am not a robot. I have a heart and I bleed.

I've had my heart broken one too many times.

I know what it's like to have my heart broken. It is not adorable.

I've had my heart broken, and it's not fun. But I'd rather have my heart broken than break someone else's heart.

When you work on a passion project, there's always the chance that you'll get your heart broken.

I don't think anybody's so cool that it's like, 'I've never had my heart broken.' Like, c'mon, that's crap.

I'm not afraid to have my heart broken and go out and meet people.

Everyone falls in love, everyone gets their heart broken.

I've never had my heart broken. It's a very sad state of affairs. I think everybody should have their heart broken. I don't think it says anything good about me at all.

I wouldn't mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.

You're in this heightened emotional state from the beginning of the play. It's like when you first have your heart broken.

A breakup is hard enough, and to have it all filmed and have to re-watch it and know that people all across the country are watching you get your heart broken, it is embarrassing. It's not fun. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

When I hear heartbreak songs, I always feel like, 'O.K. that's exactly how I feel... I'm not the only person who fell in love like a stupid person.'