Petra Collins Quotes

It's very scary to allow the world to see you.

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous... I define vulnerability as emotional risk, exposure, uncertainty. It fuels our daily lives.

Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It's tough to do that when we're terrified about what people might see or think.

All acting is nudity. It's all vulnerable - and a little bit scary.

It's your flaws, not your strengths, that go down in the depths of your books. You're exposed, like dreaming you're naked in a public building.

I've learned that to expose yourself, to reveal yourself is a test of your humanness.

I was vulnerable every day. Every night that I stepped on stage I was laying myself open.

Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed.

I would say the biggest risk I always take is going in front of a live audience. There's nothing more risky to do. You have to really leave yourself open to your own authenticity, and you find that out pretty quick.

Simply being myself makes me feel vulnerable.

I'm a guy so I equate vulnerability with fear. What makes me fearful. I feel vulnerable when I release material, my work, to the world, and I have no control over the outcome. Those are very vulnerable moments. I'm getting married on Friday.

You're reluctant to give too much away when you're going to put it out there for other people. It's harder writing your truest fears and loves and guilts, because you're not sure when you're writing the right story.

Acting is an uncomfortable business because you have to make yourself vulnerable.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.

I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.

The personal threat is something that's always been a part of our lives.

'Writing' always means 'not writing' to me because I will do anything to put it off. I think this is mainly because writing anything down and then handing it over to a third party - especially in comedy - is such an exposing act that you naturally want to delay the process.

Maybe I could have been good as a drawer if I had done it as much as I did writing, but it's more scary to draw. It's more revealing. You can't disguise yourself in drawing.

Being misunderstood - that's the thing that scares me. Because my life is about oversharing.

I say I'm not shy, but... Acting is a very vulnerable experience, and you've got to be really confident to put yourself out there to be judged.

The truth is this is a very dangerous world.

I think actors are brave souls that have to use parts of themselves that I'm just not comfortable doing anymore.

One can not love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not have control.

Anytime you work with materials that are deep parts of yourself, you feel revulsion at showing things about yourself that you don't want people to know.