Pom Klementieff Quotes

I'm an extremely vulnerable person. Vulnerability and emotion are very closely linked.

It's a weird thing... putting your emotions out there for everybody to see while filming. I think it puts you in a kind of vulnerable state.

I would say that a lot of the characters I've been attracted to are very vulnerable and they expose themselves emotionally. Not so much in 'The Fighter,' not so much in 'The Master' - I think those are different.

I'm actually very vulnerable and sensitive.

You don't want to let on how hurt you are because some people will see that as a sign of weakness, they might use it against you.

As a writer, if you're prepared to work from your own wound, you're allowing people into the most vulnerable parts of yourself.

The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain. We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.

It's always hard to be private in public, which is what acting is because you have to do thing really emotionally naked.

I'm a girl who has been tamping down her emotions and keeping them tightly guarded her whole life. And that works really well for me. [...] And now I felt like my shell had a dangerous crack in it. Without much more effort on his part, it would split wide open and my enormous river of emotions would gush out - the bad and the good. It was pretty much the scariest thing I'd ever thought of.

I guess I'm pretty emotional.

The better the artist, the more vulnerable he seems to be.

Would you hurt a man keenest strike at his self-love?

I was terrorized by the emotional requirements of being an actor. Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed.

There's part of me that's grateful for the delusion, because it takes a very hard shell to get started as an actor, and I don't have a very hard shell.

Sometimes, being happy or being nice can leave me feeling a bit hung out to dry. Especially if everyone else who I'm around is way more guarded.

For me there's a need for balance - fulfilling the sensitive side, letting my guard down, holding back the warrior in me. And I have to be vulnerable which is very hard for me to do.

Making music makes me feel vulnerable in the best possible way. It gives me a feeling of balance.

It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.

Drama, it would be as if you wrote some poetry. You'd run the risk of being embarrassed if people read it, because you're pouring your heart out and you're not mitigating it with any humor or anything.

Knowing when someone's the real deal or not, but still with putting your guard up and self-protecting, you've got to stay open. It comes back to balance.

Stripping toughened my hide, but exposing myself as a writer has been a lot more brutal.

I know it's not good to be weak and helpless. But I don't think it's good to be too strong either. In our society, they talk about survival of the fittest. But we're not animals. We're human.

Happiness is an enemy. It weakens you. Suddenly, you have something to lose.

When they know what makes you cry, they know what hurts you most. Don't give your enemies that.