“I hide my emotions mainly because you don't want somebody to know that you feel sorry for them, because they will feel worse, or because you don't want someone to know or see your fear. If someone like a sick kid or a burn victim sees your fear, they respond to how you respond. And if you show them it's terrible, they will get upset. It's something I've learned over the years.”
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Vulnerable Quotes — page 57 of 73
“There are certain things we come into this world having to defeat. And for me, and I would not be surprised if a lot of women feel this same way, it's this thing of not being 100 percent comfortable with myself.”
“I've always been very private, maybe because I discovered my mother, who is a wonderful lady, is very emotional.”
“Sometimes I've gotten photographs back and people have literally shaven off pieces of me, and I tell them to put it back.”
“Likewise, every time somebody interjects to speak of my honesty there is someone who quivers inside me.”
“Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else. But really there wasn't much point, and I gave up the idea out of laziness.”
“... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.”
“I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings.”
“I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.”
“You know, I'm gay and I grew up being aware of that at a very early age, in a fairly repressed family.”
“To say I'm the easiest person to live with would be a lie.”
“Making photographs that dealt with the understanding of who I am as a gay man and dealt with the process of accepting that, and also accepting what I'm into sexually, what sexually arouses me. So I was making these images not necessarily knowing what they were about, but just putting it out there - that mode of thinking or consideration of my own desires, and also the much larger conversation around images that deal with ideas of sexuality and how those images are distributed and then accepted or understood by whoever is viewing those images.”
“I'm not saying that a child who was abused or beaten or abandoned made that happen, but your reaction to it is always yours.”
“I took a shot of morphine, liked it, and eventually became addicted. It takes quite a while. It took me three months the first time. This nonsense of people becoming addicted with one shot is medically unsound.”
“I do not know What kind of my obedience I should tender. More than my all is nothing; nor my prayers Are not words holy hallowed, nor my wishes More worth than empty vanities; yet prayers and wishes Are all I can return.”
“Self-love is the most inhibited sin in the canon.”
“I try not get too self-aware when writing lyrics.”
“You always think another time would have been ideal for you . . . the reality is there was no novocaine when you went to the dentist.”
“I wish I was writing something much more heavy each time I did a film, and that the comedies just occasionally come out. But unfortunately you're stuck with what you're born with.”
“I was in too much haste, and now have no time left. I traded all the sunlight and the cities and the distant lands for a handful of power, for a shadow, for the dark.”