Ken Kesey Quotes

I actually think it's harder to play vulnerability, because you're having to delve deeper into portions of your own psyche, what it is that makes you human.

You've got to show your soul otherwise you're just a piece of equipment.

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.

Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role.

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

I have a producer friend who despairs that I come across as rather frosty and never show the real me, and she might have a point.

I wrote songs when I was little, and I wrote a journal, but I don't think I knew how to let that truth come out yet.

I have this belief that we are so vulnerable when we open ourselves up to literature. We're reminded of these real parts of ourselves.

I feel like my music at least allows me to release the other side of me, a more vulnerable and sensitive side.

Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it. But this is truest of the face of an infant. I consider that to be one kind of vision, as mystical as any.

There are times when the human face and body can express the yearning of the heart so accurately that you can, as they say, read them like a book. Do not abandon me.

... the movements of the body reveal the movements of the soul.

I held hands with her all the time...that doesn't sound like much, I realize, but she was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies on you, or else they think they have to keep moving their hand all the time, as if they were afraid they'd bore you or something.

In every person's face, there is one place that seems to express them most accurately. With my grandmother, you always looked at her mouth.

No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.

There’s nothing as significant as a human face. Nor as eloquent. We can never really know another person, except by our first glance at him. Because, in that glance, we know everything. Even though we’re not always wise enough to unravel the knowledge.

For by his face straight shall you know his heart.

Saying you love something out loud with the wrong intonation in your face can damn you and destroy what you're working on.

I think I've always been aware of it with my music. I think growing up basically and having a lot to deal with and just slowing down and having something to say and something to retract from, I think I just knew that what I was doing was extremely honest.

By giving words to these intimate experiences I can make my life available to others.

That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face.

Contain all human faces in your own without any judgment of them

Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.