Dave Bautista Quotes

When you start putting too much thought into it, the music starts getting too revealing. You don't need to know all my inner thoughts.

You don't often see vulnerability on TV, especially talk shows.

I'm an extremely vulnerable person. Vulnerability and emotion are very closely linked.

I'm just not very comfortable talking about my emotions on a normal, day-to-day basis.

I reveal too much of myself.

There is a difference between vulnerability and telling people everything about yourself. Vulnerability is a feeling. Telling everyone about yourself is just facts and details.

Not only am I putting music out there, I'm giving part of myself away.

It's very easy for me to play silly, but to reveal something closer to you, that's so much harder.

I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won't let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, 'Here I am. This is me.' I feel there's something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

I had this thing about not giving too much of myself away, so I thought, if I sang lyrics, that's giving too much away. You know, I really didn't want to give myself away.

As a person who performs on stage, it's good to be emotionally open. If you mess with someone when they are in that state, it's like you're messing with an animal when it's eating.

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

As an actor, you're naked emotionally; you're revealing yourself emotionally.

I don't want people to know how I am feeling because it makes you more vulnerable.

The work that's interesting to me in other people is really confessional.

In 'Straight Talking,' I had bared my soul, and the press attention had been overwhelming. There were times when I felt scared and vulnerable, regretting the articles I had written to publicize the book, regretting I had opened my life up for all to see.

Am I now supposed to go on Oprah and cry and tell you my deepest, darkest secrets because you want to know?

Everything I write is highly personal, but put in such a way that it's not dropping everything in someone's lap. Although sometimes I think 'The Taxi Ride' embarrasses me, because sometimes I think it's too close.

It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical.

I try to open up my heart as much as I can and keep a real keen eye out that I don't get sentimental. I think we're all afraid to reveal our hearts. It's not at all in fashion.

If you're dealing with personal kind of acting, you're not going to want to open up and expose it to everybody, because that's where the power lies, you know? It would be a little like showing your hand in poker, and then hoping you can still win.

The reality is that the work I do is not private work. I bring all my secrets, my life, to my work. Anybody who's seen my work knows everything about me.

You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.

I'm actually very vulnerable and sensitive.