Quotes About Vulnerability

The amount of times I've been told something by artists I'm working with, which I'm sure they haven't told even their significant other or families, is shocking.

In a relationship when things are really great you don't need to say anything and just enjoy the other person. Sometimes with a couple, it gets dark and you don't know what to say and that silence can last all day. Other times you don't want to stop talking because you don't want to lose one another.

On 'Raw,' I'm more of a strong, silent type because I don't need to talk it up because I can back it up. But on 'Total Divas,' it's definitely different, because I'm unapologetically myself. I speak my mind, I'm goofy, and I like to have fun.

The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness.

Don't be afraid to look silly. You are only holding yourself back if you are afraid of looking silly or failing.

It's very easy for me to play silly, but to reveal something closer to you, that's so much harder.

It's daunting doing something you haven't done before - you feel silly; you feel like a bit of an idiot.

Don't be afraid to look silly.

Sometimes I'll post goofy photos of myself on Instagram without make-up or making silly faces. I don't always look like a little Barbie doll.

In life, I had to be prim and proper and poised - The King Daughter. But acting, I could be the zany, silly, sometimes foolish person that I am. I could let the raw edges show.

I like silly photos of me, looking stupid.

Growing up, I held back a lot in fear of looking silly or thinking I wouldn't make it.

I'm constantly astounded by the way people talk so openly to someone they don't know. They clarify in their own minds what is important to them, discover another person has similar problems, and create trust and even a friendship.

I get scared of really simple things and not scared of big things.

Adversaries will do the simplest thing they need to do to make an attack work.

The simplest way to win in the National Football League is to knock out the starting quarterback. You know, throughout the years, history has proven if your number one quarterback goes down, your chances for success become very limited.

My own cancer experience has taught me that the most comforting words from friends have often been both the simplest and the most honest.

I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on.

We're never alone. As soon as we step outside the campfire glow, our Muse lights on our shoulder like a butterfly. The act of courage calls for infallibly that deeper part of ourselves that supports and sustains us.

Stay stupid. Trust the soup. Start before you're ready.

That gang or posse that we imagine is sustaining us by the bonds we share is in fact a conglomeration of individuals who are just as fucked up as we are and just as terrified.

silent (and not-so-silent) threat.

Remember, as artists we don't know diddly. We're winging it every day. For us to try to second-guess our Muse the way a hack second-guesses his audience is condescension to heaven. It's blasphemy and sacrilege.

Even if you have the most perfect marriage ever known to man, the enemy will still try to tear down the fence and destroy it by one means or another.