Quotes About Vulnerability

Stage is about imperfections and working with them, whether it be from you or the audience.

What I like about film is it explores imperfections.

I think the key to great art and great artists is to just fully be yourself and not be scared of that, and be the extremes of your personality. Show the extremes of your personality and embrace the imperfections. Embrace the things about yourself that you might not like.

I never thought my imperfections would be weaponized and used to try to destroy me and the community that I have loved.

I think what attracts a woman to a man are his imperfections.

People like to pick at your imperfections, and that can be very hard on you as a person. I think, a lot of times, people forget that we're human beings and some of us are fighting self-esteem issues already.

Everyday, we all struggle to be comfortable with our imperfections.

I'm not that interested in working with impervious people.

I am not comfortable telling people I am trying stand-up because to me that implies confidence. I'm - well, I'm not.

'Let Me Love You' is about being brave enough to let a person get close enough to you to teach you how to love yourself, to teach you the importance of loving yourself.

Being humble is one of the most important things, and not being afraid to put yourself out there is important. I think really successful chefs put themselves out there on a daily basis.

I loved Catherine Deneuve, Sophia Loren, and Ursula Andress. They had an incredible strength but fragility at the same time, especially Catherine Deneuve, who had an aloofness that impressed me.

I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.

I don't want to give a false impression of confidence where I don't have it.

I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think every improviser has that.

I was always called a cry baby, and I was one. I cried a lot as a child. In fact, I still cry a few times a day. I'm still a cry baby.

The game of love, in my opinion, is a lottery.

But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.

Digital safety is no different to physical safety. You can do your upmost to minimise it. You can arm yourself to protect yourself, but in the end there are criminals everywhere and that's the way of the world.

I've always been very open with my emotions. Actually, that's got me into a lot of trouble, too, in the past.

I have always been cursed or blessed with this inability to hide behind anything and to just say exactly what I am experiencing.

Inaction will always have a disproportionate impact on those who are the most disadvantaged.

I don't want to make a cheap analysis, but when you have, like I did, a father incapable of showing emotion, who spends his life telling you that no one will love you if you aren't perfect, it leaves scars.

Doing social media is a way of not giving in to this inclination to hiding. But instead, I'm teaching myself to feel comfortable about being open.