Neil Simon Quotes

It earns you a lot of snark if you're able to convey vulnerability.

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

You can't find intimacy - you can't find home - when you're always hiding behind masks. Intimacy requires a certain level of vulnerability. It requires a certain level of you exposing your fragmented, contradictory self to someone else. You running the risk of having your core self rejected and hurt and misunderstood.

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.

It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.

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.

I'm putting myself out there in a way I don't know if I ever have before.

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

It is hard for me to be vulnerable, because I never learned how to do that. I was never vulnerable in a safe way.

Great artists are the ones who have put their entire selves out there to be adored, humiliated, to be picked at, cherished, all of those things, and haven't shied away from that.

To be vulnerable, to be raw, to virtually expose your guts, I like doing that.

Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'

It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.

I've always believed in trying to be as open as possible. I think it almost comes with the job - if you can bare your emotions, it makes for better acting.

You must take the risk to disclose yourself in order to become more real, more human. And even if the price is high.

Making yourself vulnerable is a key element of leading.

I tend to find you have to be fairly vulnerable to get something... to get a perspective worth having. Which can be controversial. But I find telling someone what you're thinking about, what you want, and what you're afraid of can often help them give guidance.

I don't have a problem showing vulnerability.

I mean, my stand-up is very honest and exposing in this way. I probably carry that into everything I do.

If you're really gonna live, you have to be vulnerable.

I've become more comfortable with opening up.

I felt the need to be more open and expressive of my feelings, not just about the hills and the countryside, but about the daily life.

Being vulnerable is the hardest thing for so many people, including myself, but it's also the most satisfying thing.

Coming off 'Reflection,' what we really wanted to do was be more vulnerable.

It's always been a mantra to me, when making music or creating art, that you have to be vulnerable.