Vijay Deverakonda Quotes

I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out.

Music is my way out. I keep things locked up and never say anything. I guess in order to say something to one person, I have to sing it to a couple of thousand. It doesn't make for healthy relationships.

I'm not good at opening up with people.

We all are scared. First of all, as a culture, we're constantly told that if you start to express yourself or express your needs, you're needy. You're too emotional. And they put all these negative connotations on it. That has started since we were kids, especially for men.

Sometimes men and women have trouble with just being vulnerable.

When you lock everything down tight so that the pain can't get out, you also keep good stuff from getting in.

We can't be intimate because we can't share feelings that we don't have.

Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.

I internalize everything, keep everything inside. I'm not used to spilling my guts, and when you have to do that on film to make a point, it's hard. It's rough. I don't think it's as easy as people think.

To play someone when the character masks their own emotions, doesn't understand their own emotions, has no release for their own emotions, and yet is full of emotion - that is a much harder character to play than someone who has somewhere to put it.

I'm a very shy person towards my intimacy and private life.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can't be locked up with anyone for too long.

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

Every woman I've had a relationship with has found this maddening; the fact that I will talk about anything on the stage, and reveal all this stuff, and yet when I'm at home, I clam up and won't discuss anything intimate or personal.

I don't even like to cry in private.

Some people are uncomfortable saying what they feel.

Men are not usually forthcoming in the expression of their emotions.

I'm not an emotional person; I keep it in, and I wouldn't know how to get it out if it weren't for acting and writing.

I am clearly vulnerable to these more passionate and volatile unstable relationships. I am trying to not be so vulnerable.

I figured if I played in the no-man's land of intimacy, I would learn to be a performer.

Growing up, I never expressed myself to nobody. I never told nobody when something was wrong.

I find it really hard to be close to anybody.

Being vulnerable was difficult for me at first because I've said things in my songs about how I felt that I never told anybody.