Carole King Quotes

As a fan, I connect with realness. Whether it's strong or vulnerable, if it's real, I can connect with it.

I realized that there's this fine line between being personal and being general and being alienating.

I've always felt like I had a personal relationship with fans. I'm not afraid to be emotional or vulnerable or humble.

People come to the theatre in search of a real encounter with other human beings, and we must give them what they come for. Our capacity to do that is the measure of being human. And if the price is that we sometimes say something not very pleasant - well, that's precisely why people want us, in the end: because we speak the truth.

The more personal you are willing to be and the more intimate you are willing to be about the details of your own life, the more universal you are. Everybody needs to be understood. And out of that comes every form of love.

I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.

The only problems I've ever had with being honest is telling people how I feel about them or saying how I feel about other people.

I think the best acting is when you allow yourself to be kind of vulnerable in the moment.

The closer you stay to emotional authenticity and people, character authenticity, the less you can go wrong. That's how I feel now, no matter what you're doing.

I've been the type of guy, I've always been very forthcoming with how I feel. And that it doesn't make you less of a man to like go and be like, 'This is how I feel about you. This is the truth.'

I'm not afraid, as a writer, of being emotional. I'm obsessed with human emotion, body parts, physicality.

To be honest with my music... for me to expect anyone to connect it has to come from a place of honesty.

It's the most personal thing that I do is sing. Because I can't tell a lie. I want them to know exactly what I'm feeling.

Part of acting is always just being available emotionally and open to people.

I feel like the more I share, the more relatable I am.

I think when I show my vulnerability, people relate with that because they know deep down inside that they have vulnerable moments, and they can really connect and identify with me on those things.

I don't always know what I want to hear, but I'm gonna try and pull it out and sing it to you, and if you hear it the way I sing it to you, then a wall is broken.

It's easy to ask other people to open up and to judge them if they don't, but it's always difficult to lead by example.

My whole act is confession.

I love 'I'm British But...' It's such a sweet, innocent, open-hearted film, and it has the sort of openness that I still aspire to with everything I do. It wears its heart, head, everything on its sleeve.

Fiction, at its best, is a radical act of intimacy. It seeks to join, to merge, to know deeply; and, as with intimacy, there is a way in which it cannot be faked.

I certainly wear my heart on my sleeve, and I think that comes out in the characters that I play. There's a yearning, or something, that comes out of me that people relate to.

When I write from the point of view of a child or a young person, I am trying to tell the truth as an adult voice sometimes cannot. We are so often wrapped in the garment of trying to reassure ourselves that we are not afraid.

Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.

Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.