Quotes About Vulnerability

It's a very frightening feeling to feel like you can have a busted taillight or wear a hoodie or be playing in a park, and someone can take your life away. To have two children, two black boys, you ask yourself a lot of questions about how do I protect my family. Is there anything I can actually do?

Learning to ride a bike in a public park means anyone can see you.

It is part of being a goalkeeper: there is nobody behind to save you.

Life requires things from you - if you're really living it and are really alive - that are really difficult and painful, and you can't avoid those things if you're really participating.

One of the commitments I made to myself when I decided to write a book was to be brutally honest, particularly about myself.

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

There's certainly harder things in the world and the country to do than being an actor, but it's a particularly emotionally humiliating thing to do, that you don't really anticipate when you choose to do it. You don't really think that it's going to be quite so soul-crushing at times.

But I'm not particularly comfortable around guns.

I am skittish about relationships, as most of the marriages I've seen up close have been ruinous for one or both parties.

I know I don't mind sharing my defects, my deficiencies, partly in the hope that someone will hear it and know that they're not alone.

If you're not willing to let your partner see your cellulite or know your biggest fears, then you aren't really ready to share yourself.

I think that's a really important part of a marriage, to be intimate with your partner.

Anytime you fall short with someone you've been with the whole time, you always ask yourself or ask the other partner, 'Can we do this?'

You want your partner to objectify you.

Your partner has to live with the best and the worst part of you, and they're affected by it.

Boundaries get blurry and identities can get lost easily. It's easy to take your partner for granted.

It's always my biggest insecurity - disappointing myself or my partner.

Marriage, or any committed partnership, has become sacred to me, powerful and fragile all at the same time.

I think when you're looking for a lifetime partnership, intimacy is obviously a part of that.

With drama, you need to be laughing, in between takes, 'cause you're going to those recesses of your soul and those dangerous parts. Normally, if you're not an actor or some crazy artist, you don't feel the need to run around in those areas. You keep them separate because it's painful.

When dad told me Mr Steptoe had passed away, I broke down.

I grew up around a lot of artists and people passing through. I learned so much from them. I felt the safest with them - and the most endangered.

The blind panopticon of capital remains after all, most vulnerable in the realm of 'magic' - the manipulation of images to control events, hermitic 'action at a distance'.

It is not the absence of defensiveness that characterizes learning teams but the way defensiveness is faced