Rachael Taylor Quotes

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

I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn't care for it in other people either.

I don't have any huge desire to show you all that I'm not tough and strong, that I'm all feminine and soft. That's not a huge longing that I have because I know who I am.

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.

It was Bella Absug who taught me to be tough, to let insults roll off my back.

I could never identify with that word, 'weak.'

Am I ever gonna grow thick skin? No.

Strength comes in so many forms. Not just the physical strength, but to understand the emotional strength. To have emotional vulnerability, to show that's not a weakness.

...Hard people are weak people whom nobody wants, and the strong, caring little whether they are wanted or not, have alone that meekness which the common herd mistake for weakness.

There ain't nothing from the outside that can lick any of us.

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.

Among the reasons people keep sad stories to themselves is that they do not want anyone to feel sorry for them. I don't. I don't want you to feel sorry for me.

I'd go at anyone. I took all of my brothers' bull. It made me who I am.

You have to develop a very thick skin.

I'm glad I'm a strong person.

You have to grow thick skin and that only comes with time and learning.

I trust myself. You need that to survive.

I mean, I like to think of myself as being strong and independent, but I definitely wasn't like that at 14.

It doesn't matter what anyone tells me, I know that I can rely on myself. It comes from my parents. They are the same strong-minded people as I am and I just don't let anyone bring me down.

Being a sensitive, thoughtful person opens you up for criticism and being affected by it.

There's nothing you could do to me, nothing you could take away from me that would make me feel like I wasn't going to be all right.

I'm always strong. I'm tough.

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

I am a strong girl but also sensitive.

I'd probably say I'm very strong. If somebody says something horrible, I'm like, 'Okay, whatever.'