Quotes About Introspection

Most of the time I feel stupid, insensitive, mediocre, talentless and vulnerable - like I'm about to cry any second - and wrong. I've found that when that happens, it usually means I'm writing pretty well, pretty deeply, pretty rawly.

I always thought that feminine, softer side was just too vulnerable to put out there, because then it's like you're opening up a door for everybody to come in, and you don't know who's going to come in that door.

It's different when you're an actor and playing a part, but when it's just you, you feel immensely vulnerable have strangers prodding and prying.

Some of us are only going to show our emotions while we're actually vulnerable. But that's what makes us human.

I'm actually very vulnerable and sensitive.

An actor is totally vulnerable. His total personality is exposed to critical judgment - his intellect, his bearing, his diction, his whole appearance. In short, his ego.

I mean you pull the curtain away, and you see I'm just as insecure and neurotic and scared and vulnerable as anybody, you know.

We're all quite vulnerable human beings really.

I felt vulnerable and very much between friends. I remember walking down the hallway and thinking I had no way of knowing what was coming, literally. This wasn't because I had some horrific bullying story, but because of a steady drip of negativity.

Actually, performing is a lot like golf. You are alone, so vulnerable.

Interestingly, I matured as a musician and as an artist before I matured as a man. What I mean by that is, I was ready to be completely vulnerable and honest with myself and unapologetic when it comes to how I express myself in my medium. But I wasn't as secure in doing that when it came to just being myself.

To be vulnerable, to be raw, to virtually expose your guts, I like doing that.

I'm a vulnerable, sensitive person. I overthink everything.

But through therapy I'm realising I'm allowed to be vulnerable. And I'm allowed to feel shy. And I'm allowed to feel private.

There are moments when your mind is very vulnerable. You feel a lot of doubts.

Things hurt me just as much as anyone else. My insecurities, failures. I'm vulnerable to comparisons.

What did we do before we had cell phones and we just had to sit there and be vulnerable?

I'm a filmmaker. I like to ask the questions, make others feel vulnerable. I don't want to be vulnerable.

I love reading other people's diaries, especially someone like Virginia Woolf's - such a formidable woman that it's a revelation when she shows you a more vulnerable side of herself.

The day people around me stop questioning my character is the day my character begins to grow vulnerable.

I think I'm actually more vulnerable than people imagine.

The issues that black men face oftentimes are the issues that everyone faces. Do you have the ability to be present? Are you working on yourself? Do you understand what it means to be a man? To be responsible, loving, vulnerable?

Nobody's just arrogant. I've met people who are embattled and dismissive, but when you get to know them, you find that they're vulnerable - that that hauteur or standoffishiness is because they're pedaling furiously underneath.

I'm inspired by people who are so sensitive and vulnerable that they try to cover it up.