Albert Brooks Quotes

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.

I don't trust anyone... It's something that I have to live with, and I have to find the balance of who I want in my life and who isn't good for me.

I don't let people affect me.

I conditioned myself many years ago that nobody could hurt me.

It's not that women don't feel things, we do. We fall in love, we get our hearts broken, we're disappointed and sad, but we've also been taught that you must always have your pride. Above all.

Do not tell everyone your story. You will only end up feeling more rejected. People cannot give you what you long for in your heart. The more you expect from people's response to your experience of abandonment, the more you will feel exposed to ridicule.

If you believe in love, you're setting yourself up to be disappointed.

The thing that makes me most vulnerable is romantic relationship.

Being vulnerable is allowing yourself to trust. That's hard for a lot of people to do. They feel a lot more secure if they kind of put walls around themselves. Then they don't have to trust anybody but themselves.

Miserable is a good thing, though. If you start the day miserable, nobody else can screw up your day.

Love makes me vulnerable. In business I'm tough on myself - I'm like a drill sergeant. If I'm down, I'm used to getting right back up, but when it comes to love, your heart can't do that.

Eartha Mae is very shy. She's scared to be seen, scared of rejection and even afraid of affection. Relationships can be rather uncomfortable for her. But, as Eartha Kitt, it's fine. I can accept and reject any time I want to. Do I ever reject? Not really. Although people think I do!

I'm learning to deal with my loneliness because then nobody can muck me around any more.

I'm more conscious about who I let into my heart, and I'm singing about it.

You can't always trust people with your heart, but you should still love anyway. That's what I would say.

I don't cry unless it's personal.

Choosing to remain vulnerable and sensitive despite disappointments or heartbreak helps me stay authentic to my life. It is the hardest part.

You have one heart, and once you give it away, it's gone. If you wear it on your sleeve, a lot of people are there to take advantage of it.

I couldn't forget. I couldn't break. She had the power to break me. No one had ever been given that power, ever.

There's definitely a dangerous feeling when you're in love-it's giving your heart to someone else and knowing that they have control over your feelings. I know for me, who always tries to be so tough, that's the dangerous thing.

So I place my heart under lock and key, to take some time to look after me. But when I turn around you're standing there.

Why is it that loving something provides such little protection from betrayal?

Maybe I was afraid to trust him with something so personal as my devotion.

Here's to woman! Would that we could fold into her arms without falling into her hands.

It seems as though I've always been,somebody outside looking in,well, here I am for all of them to bleed,but they can't take my heart from me,and they can't bring me to my knees,they'll never know the real me.