Scott Westerfeld Quotes

For modelling, you have to be such a strong person in a way - or seen to be a strong person, do you know what I mean? But in acting you have to get in touch with all the vulnerability that you carry.

No, I am a crier and if people ever saw me privately they would be shocked at what a bowl of mush I am underneath it all.

I wish I had tougher skin, but I don't.

It's not a bad thing, is it, to be strong in some ways and fragile and vulnerable in others?

I like to think that I'm a really strong, tough person, but I'm not. I'm a very, very needy person. I'm very insecure. I'm very impressionable. But, there is a side of me that is very put-together, very strong, very capable and very opinionated. It's the two sides of myself.

I say you are a coward and you are; I think you hunt only to reassure yourself that you are not what you are: the weakest thing to ever walk the Earth. He will come for me and then we will be gone, and you will be helpless for all your hunting, because Westley and I are joined by the bond of love and you cannot track that, not with a thousand bloodhounds, and you cannot break it, not with a thousand swords.

When you're in pain, you're genuinely very, very alive, and that's beautiful. Especially emotional pain.

A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.

It is not just a person's physical constitution, their intellegence, their education, or even their social conditioning that enables them to withstand hardship. Much more significant is their inner development. And while some may be able to survive through sheer willpower, the ones who suffer the least are those who have a high degree of patience and courage in the face of adversity.

I realized that I'm a soft person. I think I'm sensitive. I wanted very much to be tough and I think movie stars have a certain kind of resilience and toughness to them, but I'm quite a sensitive young lady in some respects.

I don't think I have thick skin, but I heal fast. It's easy to break through, but I heal fast.

No one goes unscathed, we all go through things. We just can't let people's nasty words become our beliefs about ourselves, you know?

I know you're supposed to be thick-skinned in this business, but I'm not. I kind of like to hang on to being vulnerable.

I can be extremely vulnerable. People are tough on me because they think I can handle it.

It's weird: I don't see myself as a tough guy.

I think we all depend on a significant other, and we think if they leave me, I'll die. But that's not true. We're all much stronger than we think we are.

I can be overly confident at times, but with someone who I'm very close to, like with my mother, I will break down. In real life, people will find out that I'm not actually that confident and that I'm a real guy underneath it all.

Generally, I play the kind of ethereal, fragile-on-the-outside-but-hard-and-damaged-on-the-inside type.

For years I used to think that you had to hide your emotions to show that you are strong.

I am tough, but deep inside my toughness, I like to let people know I'm an old-fashioned mama's boy.

I think I'm blessed with a pretty tough psyche.

Dealing with depression effectively is a mark not of weakness, but of strength.

I just want people to know I'm mentally strong.

It's not something that I dwell on. I've never really had a problem with being soft.

After an injury, I think you have to be strong mentally.