Xosha Roquemore Quotes

I'm very passionate, very emotional, very sensitive. I've always been like that.

I was raised not to be afraid to show emotion or imagination.

I'm an emotional guy.

I play damaged people a lot. I'm a Cancer. And I say that tongue and cheek, but I wear my heart on my sleeve. I'm a very emotional woman.

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you're defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

A lot of things I don't do well; I don't do warm and fuzzy well.

All my artist buddies make fun of me for being such a sensitive human being.

When I put my first project out ages ago, I didn't want to show anyone my emotions. Now I think it's better for people to understand how I am as a person and let them relate.

Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.

I'm so uncomfortable, especially in emotional situations, having to say sentences that don't feel right. As an actor - or really, as any kind of person sensitive to it.

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that's such a downer, and people hate that topic. It's not that vulnerability is the upside, but it's better than shame, I guess.

I'm very sensitive and I'm quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me.

I'm putting myself out there in a way I don't know if I ever have before.

Sometimes I feel like I used to be a person that liked to express himself a lot and put my feelings out there.

I'm emotionally in tune with my feelings and what people mean to me, and I have no trouble saying it and relating to it.

If you express yourself too much, you're considered weak.

I am a really sensitive person.

Never be ashamed of what or how you feel... just be honest.

It's taken me years to embrace the softer elements of who I am and let that shine some.

It gets harder and harder to make sure your public understands you're a sensitive human being, but I am sensitive. I don't like to be hurt.

I want people to see that I'm a real person, I overreact, I cry, I'm emotional. If I come across as perfect and in control, that wouldn't be who I really am.

I'm not sure I have a natural gift. I think it's just that some people have an easier time expressing their emotions, maybe because of the way they've been raised, and I've always been expressive.

I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestry of life?

As I've gotten to know myself over the years, I realised I'm kind of a sweet, sensitive guy, a shy guy, and communication is not something I'm so good at.

I'm really super feminine, and I'm really soft. I'm very sensitive, I realized.