Erica Durance Quotes

I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings.

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

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 wonder why I only talk about my personal life. But that's all I've ever done.

I don't hide anything about myself, so I don't find it difficult to talk about things that happen in my life... But at the same time, I don't like putting myself out there too much. That's how I am.

I really don't think I have lived my life as an open book.

I'm just not that comfortable writing so much about myself.

For 13 years, I struggled with education and have only just realised that I was actually struggling to protect myself from it. I was trying to protect my soul.

People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.

I'm just not used to talking that much about myself. It feels strange.

I internalize everything, keep everything inside. I'm not used to spilling my guts, and when you have to do that on film to make a point, it's hard. It's rough. I don't think it's as easy as people think.

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.

I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me.

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

There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.

I'm a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister. I'm a real person operating in the world. For me to discuss the most private thing feels wrong. It feels like I'm betraying myself and my children.

I'm particularly proud of my reluctance to share my dreams with anyone.

I will never be able to say what is in my heart because words fail us, because it is in our nature to protect, because there are times when what is public and what is private must be discerned.

I do have a vulnerable side. I think a lot of people have a misperception of me. They only see the tough, defensive, aggressive side. But every woman is vulnerable.

I don't find it easy for me to talk about me.

When writing songs, especially if they're kinda semi-true to you, a lot of people hide behind whatever their idea of themselves is in the record, and every now and then, you might make a song that exposes something a little too much about you, and there's a part that doesn't want yourself to be exposed.

I feel like I gotta get out of myself sometimes. I think I'm in my own world sometimes. I don't like to let other people come into my own world. Especially with my teammates, my coaches, I should be doing that. The important people that need to know how I'm feeling. I can do a better job of telling them exactly how I feel.

I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.

To enter into your own mind you need to be armed to the teeth.

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