Quotes About Vulnerability

It is in my nature to be a little shy. It takes time for me to talk to people and trust them.

It's just so hard growing up: you go through things, especially acting - I go to a different set every couple of months, and you meet an entirely new group of people that are around you 24/7. It's not an easy situation to go into when you're a shy person.

With me, I'm quite a shy bredda, so it's when I get to know someone - just like any shy person - you just open up more.

Shyness is just egoism out of its depth.

Overcoming my shyness has been a lifelong struggle.

Acting, for me, has never been about wanting attention or wanting to be seen. It's funny that I'm in a profession where that's where I am. There's so much I want to express; it's about connecting with another person and the intimacy of what that is, and so I have to overcome my shyness.

To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.

I had paralyzing fear as a kid. I couldn't watch horror movies, nothing. The funny thing is I got so sick of being afraid that I started doing it deliberately and instead of being afraid in my bed I would sit up on my bed and say, 'ok, come on, show yourself, do it.'

I worry about stuff like getting sick, home invasions, and how animals are in pain but can't tell anyone.

I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible.

I tell people that anything that could ever happen to you on stage has happened to me. My clothes have fallen off. I've fallen off the stage. I've gotten sick - anything.

You know the expression, 'You're only as sick as your secrets?' I believe that, and I think I try to have my work live by that to a degree.

There's nothing more raw in life than when you're sick.

I'm a human being, and I get sick.

Eviction affects old folks and young folks, sick people and able-bodied people, white communities and African-American communities.

When lorry drivers come up behind me and I'm cycling, innocently keeping to my side of the road, and they decide because they are so big, and their lorry is so powerful, and they just want to clear me out of the road, and they hoot aggressively, then I do see red a bit. I do.

The flip side of humiliation is pride.

In the process of looking for comedy, you have to be deeply honest. And in doing that, you'll find out here's the other side. You'll be looking under the rock occasionally for the laughter.

I don't have a sidekick - no Ed McMahon. So when I go out there, I'm lonely. It's scary.

'The Good Parts' is me telling as much as I can of the deeper sides of myself that I haven't shared before. It's like an onion that gets deeper every time you cut it.

I feel it's important to show different sides of my character, and I never take myself too seriously.

Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.

I'm always afraid that I'm being unprofessional, yet I continue to sign all my e-mails 'xoxo.'

As Secretary of Housing, I do have to express alarm, signal the alarm if you will, that the potential for homelessness to grow is there.