Quotes About Vulnerability

Actors put ourselves in awkward positions all the time.

I cry at nothing, and cry most of the time.

Every time I finish a record, it's sort of feels like, "I can't believe that I'm hanging out and having a conversation, and people are gonna listen to this." It's an odd thing, but it's really cool.

I put everything I can into a record. That's what art is for. I take a risk every time I do one with my whole being.

Every time you love someone, you put not just your faith in them, but your faith in everything to the test.

That's what takes people out of the fight half the time. They get hit and half the reaction is your ego is saying, 'I cannot believe that person just lit me up - how humiliating.

Death lies dormant in each of us and will bloom in time.

I grew up very insecure. From the time I was little I used to hide under my mother's dress.

We live in a world where we're all on computers and tablets and phones, all the time, so something as odd as computer hacking or a virus is really scary because it gets to the heart of our security.

Everyone can lie, young Roger, given cause enough. Even me. It's only that it's harder for those of us who live in glass faces; we have to think up our lies ahead of time.

I spent a lot of time protecting myself. I mean, I've met a lot of extraordinary people over the years - and I just wish I had been able to open myself up to them more.

You gave yourself away, word by word, every time you opened your trap to speak.

Because friends have to be brutally honest with each other. I'd feel terrible if I didn't tell you what I was thinking, especially at a time like this

A terrorist can attack any time, any place using any technique and you can't defend everywhere against every technique at every moment.

I think the first time [Dre] did [biten me]. We cried together. I assumed he did. I assumed that would be the first and last time. I learned that it wasn't.

I'm willing to make a fool out of myself in public. I'm also willing to make those mistakes that you're going to make the first time you go out, so hopefully the next time it will be better.

The next time you're mad at me, talk to me,' he said. 'Don't shut me out. I don't like playing games. And by the way, I had a great time, too.

No man is charming all of the time. Even Cary Grant is on record saying he wished he could be Cary Grant.

The world is only one poor harvest away from chaos. We are so close to the edge that politically destabilising food prices could come at any time

What's weird about the cinema business is that you have to have a thick skin while remaining vulnerable as an artist. It comes with time. You get dumped, your heart gets broken.

Heterosexual men terrified me. I found them to be dangerous. Not all of them, of course, but it took me some time to learn to be comfortable.

I was 29 and I really fell in love, I think, for the first time. I was vulnerable in a way I didn't think I could be.

Then I'd crawl back into bed, smelling her all around me, and tell myself that next time, I would lock that window. But I never did.

Actually," Alan said, earnest and clear-eyed, "this is my first time playing poker.