“I've always been really, really aware of my insecurities - really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.”
Vulnerable feeling
Vulnerable Quotes — page 59 of 73
“I don't like to feel like I'm some fragile package that has to be shipped by high-priority mail and handled with white gloves.”
“I've found that men I've dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I've found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren't competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been... challenging.”
“I feel vulnerable because my mind - because of the stroke, my mind doesn't focus. And then I feel vulnerable because I don't understand the world around me.”
“I cannot think of the results of your labors without shame at the little we do.”
“It's always hard to be private in public, which is what acting is because you have to do thing really emotionally naked.”
“[Denzel Washington] was rustling with something and when he came back it was with a word about loving myself and the body that I'm in because I was still going on and on about the weight thing. I just liked that, because what people don't understand is that so much of what blocks us as actors is so personal.”
“Rhoda comes now, having slipped in while we were not looking. She must have made a tortuous course, taking cover now behind a waiter, now behind some ornamental pillar, so as to put off as long as possible the shock of recognition, so as to be secure for one more moment to rock her petals in her basin. We wake her. We torture her. She dreads us, she despises us, yet she comes cringing to our sides because for al our cruelty there is always some name, some face which sheds a radiance, which lights up her pavements and makes it possible for her to replenish her dreams.”
“I need a little language such as lovers use, words of one syllable such as children speak when they come into the room and find their mother sewing and pick up some scrap of bright wool, a feather, or a shred of chintz. I need a howl; a cry. When the storm crosses the marsh and sweeps over me where I lie in the ditch unregarded I need no words. Nothing neat. Nothing that comes down with all its feet on the floor. None of those resonances and lovely echoes that break and chime from nerve to nerve in our breasts making wild music, false phrases. I have done with phrases.”
“From the outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living.”
“I feel like the sexy clothes put a bar between you. It's like putting an alcohol drenched piece of wood between you and the person, and it's inviting them to be able to think and say the things that they hate about themselves.”
“I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood.”
“Did I throw the most important thing perhaps, by accident, away?”
“I wouldn't describe myself as a master of anything.”
“At 17, I signed a recording contract right out of high school, so I started touring and traveling the world. I sort of missed out on the college experience.”
“I basically put my trust in someone and I was let down.”
“I had only one desire: to dismember it. To see of what it was made, to discover the dearness, to find the beauty, the desirability that had escaped me, but apparently only me.”
“I know it's trash: just another story made up to scare wicked females and correct unruly children. But it's all I have. I know I need something else. Something better. Like a story that shows how brazen women can take a good man down. I can hum to that.”
“I couldn't bear to have people mispronounce my name. But the person I was was this person who was called Chloe.”
“I think actors, they maybe want more approval than I'm used to giving. Everybody does. Everybody needs a hug you know, all the time. I'm not very good at that. I could get better at that.”