Quotes About Vulnerability

Comedy has so much to do with honesty, and women can be more open about their emotions.

I just have to open up when I'm on stage because that's what I did in my life. I want people to know what I've been through, and the love and the honesty that I have kept inside me. I just open my heart and let my heart go free.

Nobody wants to rock their own life. But, on the other hand, when your life does get rocked, it affords you a certain level of emotional honesty. It liberates you to be who you really are.

I feel like I have some stuff that matches 'Fight Song,' not in necessarily the message exactly but in the emotion and honesty.

Anytime I hear songs that are so honest, whether they make the person who's singing it look good or not, there's a level of honesty that resonates with people.

What all my favorite comedians have in common is extraordinary honesty.

I think the best writing is full of honesty and conviction. A lot of people are afraid to reveal much of themselves.

Honesty is seldom ingratiating and often discomfiting.

I sing in many different colors and, hopefully, they add up to a great performance that, after you leave the theater, makes you feel like I've really shared something of myself.

I made some probably very cringe-worthy short films that shall hopefully never make the light of day.

I just want to continue to grow, as an actor, and dig. Hopefully, one day, I'll lose myself in a role. My only worry about that is that I just want to be able to come back home. I don't want to get lost forever. That scares me.

Hopefully, the stuff that is way too personal that I record and keep - people won't hear it because it's way too personal.

A music serves truth up to you in a really interesting way that allows you to luxuriate in its beauty and, at the same time, to hopefully see yourself in its fragility.

We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine.

There are crimes occurring against senior citizens in this country that are horrendous, that we don't hear about.

I don't put myself through that nauseating experience of looking at someone's face while they go through your stuff. Ugh! It's just horrible! It gives me the cringes to even think about it.

The more horrible the truth that you admit, the better you connect. You have to tell the truth.

I'm a normal, horrible, screwed up human being like everyone else. I mean, I'm not horrible person, but I'm just as screwed up as anybody.

I don't think people like to read about themselves or about others as they really are. It would be too horrifying.

I eat like a horse; sometimes I think I must have cancer.

After the Klitschko fight they left me for dead in the hospital. It was just my wife and me - we were alone and had no money.

No matter how low I feel, I know I won't ever be as low as I was when I went into hospital because I managed to speak out and ask for help.

I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.

I went to see a shaman. He put his hands on me, and I cried like a baby for an hour.