Kristin Gore Quotes

I often close my eyes because I can't tolerate violence.

Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere - and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity and weakness and fear and anxiety because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that's what we are.

I'm surprisingly squeamish.

A frightened man is a beaten man.

The thing about nightmares was that you couldn't prepare for them. They sneaked up on you when you were most vulnerable.

I went out every single night so I was never alone with my stepfather. At 12, I stopped going on holiday with them. The times I was alone with him I always made sure I was all covered up.

Quite a few of the dogs that come back from Afghanistan or Iraq or police dogs that are involved in violent confrontations where there's gunfire can in fact exhibit the symptoms and suffer from PTSD.

This claustrophobia was the only weakness I had. It's not my fault. It's just in my mind.

We all have fears, especially when we're younger. I was afraid of clowns.

I'm a sponge. I sometimes don't want to go out of my house because it's like, 'Who's going to make me cry today?'

I'm accustomed to being harassed.

I was terrified watching 'Civil War' for the first time.

Bullies really bother me a lot. A lot, a lot.

I had a difficult childhood. I had lots of anxiety and questions. I found the world scary and intimidating.

I ended up living in fear for most of my childhood.

As professional sportsmen at the top of the game we do have worries. We do think of the worst and that's absolutely fine. There's no weakness in feeling like that.

I don't know how any film can bother you. It doesn't have to do with multi-starrer films. If you are insecure, you can feel insecure being the only girl also.

In my past 20 years of interaction with girls across the world I have found that girls live in fear and anxiety while growing up.

Being in school, whenever I laughed or smiled, I would turn to find someone staring at me with this terrible hatred and disgust. I had to control everything - control my voice, control my facial expressions, control my hair and my clothes, and where I walked and where I sat - at every moment. I think that drove me to terrible anxiety.

I'm really scared of everything. I'm very, very emotional. I'm extremely soft!

I did quite a lot of research for 'Phobia' because it's a very sensitive topic, so I couldn't have just faked it.

Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.

I associate a family as the safest place in the world. So when it comes to things that scare me, introducing instability and tension into where you're supposed to be the safest really strikes a chord with me.

I feel very vulnerable when it has to do with family. Having lost my mom, who I was so extremely close to, now I feel so vulnerable when somebody gets sick or hurt. I become a complete wreck until they're well. Even if it's a cold! I compare myself to Marlin in Finding Nemo.

Emmy, the events we lived through taught me to be sure of nothing about other people. They taught me to expect danger around every corner. They taught me to understand that there are people in this world that mean you harm, And sometimes, they're the people who say they love you.