“In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.”
Vulnerable feeling
Vulnerable Quotes — page 16 of 73
“I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be considered negative. I don't think anyone wants to go to the grave negative.”
“I'm very sensitive and I'm quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me.”
“For me, it's always more difficult and slightly exposing to play something that's close to yourself. I always like to try to hide, just because I can't stand the way I look. But, I think it's important to change every time and come up with something that's as interesting as it can be, for your characters.”
“I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.”
“I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.”
“It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?”
“In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation. This I mention for the sake of parents who omit that operation, on the supposition that they should never forgive themselves if a child died under it; my example showing that the regret may be the same either way, and that, therefore, the safer should be chosen.”
“If we want to live and love with our whole hearts, and if we want to engage with the world from a place of worthiness, we have to talk about the things that get in the way- especially shame, fear and vulnerability”
“Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.”
“No one should be forced to carry the unfulfilled self of another.”
“I give and give, even when I get nothing back - and that sets me up for disappointment.”
“That's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough.”
“I can't expose a human weakness on the stage unless I know it through having it myself.”
“Many Americans would die naked in the middle of the road before they'd tell you what's hurt them most. But a born Southerner will show you the cell in their heart that burns the hardest. They'll hold it out to you in their bare right hand.”
“I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.”
“I'm sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I'm still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.”
“I'm always playing extremes, either the vulnerable girl or the vixen.”
“Writing means revealing oneself to excess.”
“I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond.”