“Being a celebrity has taught me to hide but being an actor has opened my soul.”
Vulnerable feeling
Vulnerable Quotes — page 9 of 73
“I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me.”
“Wholeheartedness. There are many tenets of Wholeheartedness, but at its very core is vulnerability and worthiness; facing uncertainty, exposure, and emotional risks, and knowing that I am enough.”
“Forgive me for my disrespect, forgive me for my lies.”
“Those whom fate has dealt hard knocks remain vulnerable for ever afterwards.”
“If I asked you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable. Known someone that could level you with her eyes, feeling like God put an angel on earth just for you. Who could rescue you from the depths of hell.”
“I'm being explicit about really horrifying experiences in my life, but my hope has always been to be responsible as an artist and to avoid indulging in my misery, or to come off as an exhibitionist. I don't want to make the listener complicit in my vulnerable prose poem of depression, I just want to honor the experience. I'm not the victim here, and I'm not seeking other peoples' sympathy. I don't blame my parents, they did the best they could.”
“I have scars on my hands from touching certain people.”
“i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires”
“I'm a very sensitive person. I do like to be respected. I'm very loyal. I like it to be a two-way street.”
“I definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male - or the American idea of what a male is supposed to be. Just watch a beer commercial and you'll see what I mean.”
“I am very adamant about keeping my private life private. I don't prefer to talk about my family.”
“Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside to feel that you are beautiful? It is very rare.”
“there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too clever, I only let him out at night sometimes when everybody's asleep. I say, I know that you're there, so don't be sad. then I put him back, but he's singing a little in there, I haven't quite let him die and we sleep together like that with our secret pact and it's nice enough to make a man weep, but I don't weep, do you?”
“We learn to make a shell for ourselves when we are young and then spend the rest of our lives hoping for someone to reach inside and touch us. Just touch us—anything more than that would be too much for us to bear.”
“There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered, who felt she was drowning and another who would leap into a scene, as upon a stage, conceal her true emotions because they were weaknesses, helplessness, despair, and present to the world only a smile, an eagerness, curiosity, enthusiasm, interest.”
“I must tell you that I should really like to think there's something wrong with me- Because, if there isn't, then there's something wrong with the world itself-and that's much more frightening! That would be terrible. So I'd rather believe there is something wrong with me, that could be put right.”
“I'll tell you all my secrets but I lie about my past.”
“I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here.”
“Look at me as many times as you wish, but you won’t get to know me! Since you have last seen me, I’ve changed a hundred times!”