“I think vulnerability and sensuality, they're sides of the same coin.”
Vulnerable feeling
Vulnerable Quotes — page 60 of 73
“I don't see how a person can be sensuous - unless they're just, you know, following some kind of script - without being vulnerable.”
“There's a certain place you want to get to, and in order to do that, you have to be vulnerable.”
“There were a lot of rumors spread about me. Of course, I didn't show up to defend myself, so my absence helped create even more.”
“I went right to Chicago to do improv [after law school], but I wish I had gone, "Let me just bypass this law thing." I mean, sure, it helps you read a contract, but I can read a contract regardless. It's just common sense, contracts.”
“I've certainly had less practice at fatherhood than I have at acting, but in fatherhood, at least my failures are private!”
“It is not women's fault if we are so tender. It is in the nature of the lives we live. And further, it would be a terrible catastrophe if men had to live men's lives and women's also. Which is precisely what has happened today -- to women.”
“All my life I have been seeking to climb out of the pit of my besetting sins and I cannot do it and I never will unless a hand is let down to draw me up.”
“You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation.”
“While someone can attempt to shame you, shame must also be accepted to be effective. We can't make you feel shame without your participation.”
“I thought when I... made my first big mistakes in public that that was really going to be the end of me. My parents cried. My friends were desperate.”
“I wish I were strong enough to ignore what others say, but experience tells me I often can't. Allowing myself to feel upset, even really upset, and then move on - that's something I can do.”
“If you're up on a stage, naked and solo and singing songs to people, there's not much place to hide, so you may as well confess what you want to confess and say what you want to say, whatever that is. Some songs just turn out as being more about me, and some are more through the eyes of other people, or third-person descriptions of people.”
“I have a good brain on me but I've never really used it when it came to decisions about love... I definitely have been foolish.”
“I feel so selfish, because I want the best of both worlds. I want to keep the image I've worked so hard to create.”
“She looks up at me with those vulnerable eyes. “What if it means something?” She asks. “What if it does?” “Promise me it won’t mean anything.” I lean my head back on the couch. “It won’t mean anythin’.” Aren’t I supposed to be the guy in this scenario, laying down the no-commitment rules? “And no tongue,” she adds. “Mi vida, if I kiss you, I guarantee there’s gonna be tongue.”
“I let it all out--my mom's date,my dad's conversation,my confusion about it all.Caleb doesn't laugh,he doesn't pull away,he doesn't talk .. He just lets me be me. When I settle down,I lean back and witness the mess I've made on his shirt."I made ur shirt all gross," I say between sniffles. "Forget the shirt.What's going on? I could.nt understand a word you mumbled into my chest." Now I'm half laughing and half crying.”
“The miser deprives himself of his treasure because of his desire for it.”
“I wish I had a gentle mind and a spine made up of iron.”
“In fact, I was too dumb to save any of the old comic books or the old artwork. I used to give them away.”