Jean Giraudoux Quotes

I'm really not comfortable talking about my personal life.

A lot can change because you are embarrassed by something.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

One man's transparency is another's humiliation.

I don't talk about my personal life, and I don't talk about death.

I don't want anyone seeing me naked.

I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability - the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.

It's no sin to admit that you feel vulnerable and lost.

Somebody described it to me the best as when you go in to write a song with two people that you've never met, you're pretty much going in and taking off your pants in front of strangers, so it's a really weird feeling.

I am unwilling to strip completely before the cameras.

I've lost a lot of control in my life.

Sometimes when you open your mouth you show what you're afraid of more than anything.

As a filmmaker, I'm interminably curious and nosy, but certain times you meet people and think, 'I don't want to push you too hard because I can see this is painful for you.'

I don't know what I'm supposed to do now. I know other people have it a lot worse. I do know that, but it's crashing in anyway, and I just can't stop thinking that the little kid eating french fries with his mom in the shopping mall is going to grow up and my sister.

I was also ready to believe, though, that whatever good things I had managed to set upright could topple at any second.

I don't like to take my clothes off.

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

I don't think even when you find a person, you can be completely honest, ever. There's still pieces of you that you don't give away. I do believe you always need that place where it's just you, your thoughts, no one else's judgment or anything.

I like to play the grey areas in life - that's the most uncomfortable place to be. Nobody likes to be in that in-between state where there don't know what's going to happen. There's a lot of tension in that, and a lot of stuff to play with - where it's uncomfortable and awkward and sad and scary.

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.

With such riches as I have in life, you're always nervous. Being Irish, you're waiting for something to knock it sideways.

Relationships or not, I believe that people don't need to know about my life beyond a certain point.

Sometimes I find myself in this super-raw place onstage where I'm like, 'Maybe that's not the best thing. Maybe I need to shut down a little.'

I don't even like to be naked in front of myself!

I felt vulnerable and very much between friends. I remember walking down the hallway and thinking I had no way of knowing what was coming, literally. This wasn't because I had some horrific bullying story, but because of a steady drip of negativity.