Keith Miller Quotes

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.

Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.

Communication is so much better when people are vulnerable.

Sometimes, when you act with someone in an intimate capacity, you have to ask vulnerable questions to speed up intimacy - but that's artificial.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.

Intimacy is not a happy medium. It is a way of being in which the tension between distance and closeness is dissolved and a new horizon appears. Intimacy is beyond fear.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

My best advice would be that you have to be vulnerable with each other. Like, everyone says you have to be honest, you have to communicate; like, yes, of course, but you gotta be willing to be vulnerable.

Luckily, my wife is amazing. She's one of the few people in my life I'm completely honest with. I've told her everything about my past. She knows me inside and out. There's no secrets at all.

Relationships in general make people a bit nervous. It's about trust. Do I trust you enough to go there?

A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and that's nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship.

If you are prepared to make a fool of yourself for them then you usually get that back. I think that there are points where you become so close to an actor, you know them so well, almost as well or better than their spouse. You have to know them, warts and all.

Any time you have intimacy with someone, there is something between them.

With my fan base, I'm just vulnerable. I'm very transparent and vulnerable.

When trust works out right, it can be absolutely magical.

The key to intimacy is the commitment to honesty and to the radical forgiveness necessary in order for honesty to be safe.

Remember, intimacy increases with honesty. Share less to keep people away and more to draw them closer.

When I can really open myself up to someone and show someone who I really am, it's amazing when it happens.

The real gift of love is self disclosure.

...we both saw something we liked, a willingness to have no walls, or maybe just an unwillingness to keep them standing.

In order to have a conversation with someone you must reveal yourself.

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

How easy it must be when you had no secrets from the person you lived with." - Eclipse, page 208

I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.