“I have this demon who wants me to run away screaming if I am going to be flawed, fallible. It wants me to think I'm so good I must be perfect. Or nothing. I am, on the contrary, something: a being who gets tired, has shyness to fight, has more trouble than most facing people easily.”
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“Let me apologize for all the faces I've worn, none of them my own.”
“I feel like male patriarchy generally has been about repressing female sexuality because it's "scary."”
“You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.”
“Cold glass, how you insert yourself Between myself and myself. I scratch like a cat. The blood that runs is dark fruit- An effect, a cosmetic. You smile. No, it is not fatal.”
“Then, when I'm in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it's all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.”
“I have scars on my hands from touching certain people...Certain heads, certain colours and textures of human hair leave permanent marks on me. Other things, too. Charlotte once ran away from me, outside the studio, and I grabbed her dress to stop her, to keep her near me. A yellow cotton dress I loved because it was too long for her. I still have a lemon-yellow mark on the palm of my right hand. Oh God, if I'm anything by a clinical name, I'm a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.”
“What makes me vulnerable is speaking up about topics that may be controversial to others.”
“I've tried to be clear about who I am, and be as open as possible with the press, and speak extremely candidly and openly about stuff. I feel like in almost every instance, it's completely backfired, and I feel like people have all these kind of absurd ideas about the way I think about myself, and my own self-identity.”
“I've always been very shy of doing television. I've always said 'no.' Not to be disrespectful to anyone - I didn't want to say 'yes' and then let people down.”
“I'm very observant and very instinctive. In life, you have to have the vulnerability to accept when you are to blame. And I do have that and I am open enough to say it.”
“If you have to ask for something more than once or twice, it wasn't yours in the first place. And that's hard to accept when you love someone.”
“I claim to be no more than an average man with below average capabilities.”
“For the women out there that I've hurt with my male privilege, I'm sorry.”
“I am the escaped one, After I was born They locked me up inside me But I left. My soul seeks me, Through hills and valley, I hope my soul Never finds me.”
“Don't feel like Satan, but I am to them. And I try to forgive them anyway I can.”
“I am the most misunderstood and misrepresented of men. Misrepresented because misunderstood.”
“Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted.”
“You threw everything away."I bring a hand up to touch her face,to wipe the rain from her eyelashes."Your entire life-your beliefs...Why would you do that for me?" June has never looked more beautiful than she does now,unadorned and honest,vulnerable yet invincible.When lightning streaks over the sky,her dark eyes shine like gold."Because you were right,"she whispers."About all of it.”
“I'm an extremely vulnerable person. Vulnerability and emotion are very closely linked.”