Quotes About Vulnerability

You can never protect yourself 100%. What you do is protect yourself as much as possible and mitigate risk to an acceptable degree. You can never remove all risk.

It's a performer's worst nightmare: to hurt yourself on stage and not be able to remove yourself from the stage.

Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the fact of your own existence, a relationship in which one may be rendered helpless.

Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage.

Most poor families are living completely unassisted in a private rental market, devoting most of their income to housing. When you meet people who are spending 70, 80 percent of their income on rent, eviction becomes much more of an inevitability than the result of personal irresponsibility.

I was broken beyond repair.

If I have done a role that's taken me to a certain space emotionally, I won't repeat that; I would rather do something now that taps into something else in my psyche... maybe something that makes me nervous.

Chronically homeless means constantly homeless; it means repeatedly homeless.

You know when you tell a self-deprecating story at a dinner party, everyone's laughing along with you? But then when someone else repeats that same story at another dinner party you feel they're all laughing at you?

I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that.

I exist because I am expendable. In all honesty, it's because if I get hurt, I can be replaced.

It's hard to know what's going to be replaced by technology tomorrow. It feels like we're all at risk. I feel only safe as an emeritus professor!

I'm sometimes embarrassed by how clinical I can become when I'm out reporting.

I think the Caribbean countries face rising oceans and they face increase in the severity of hurricanes. This is something that is very, very scary to all of us. The island states in the world represent - I remember this number - one-half of 1 percent of the carbon emissions in the world. And they will - some of them will disappear.

I can be a bit weird, cross when I'm cross, tired when I'm tired, and hungry when I'm hungry.

What is it like to get in someone's head and hunt them from inside their eyes? That's so freaky to me.

You cross me, I'm going to hurt you. But I'm really very gentle.

It's more than a job. It's very personal, so when you're hurt, you're really hurt inside.

I don't know how to be hurt.

I'm not thick-skinned at all, and of course I'm hurt by people attacking me as a person.

To deaden yourself against any hurt is to deaden yourself also against the hurt of others.

I always tell my kids that as soon as you have a secret, something about you that you are ashamed to have others find out, you have given other people the power to hurt you by exposing you.

You know that big government doesn't hurt big corporations. They've got the best lawyers and accountants in the world. You know who gets destroyed by big government? It's the little guys.

Like most people, I can be very easily hurt.