Maggie Gyllenhaal Quotes

I believe in discipline, so I'm not the right person to cry about weakness and things like this, but maybe I'm not human.

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

The truth was that I could not manage my soul, and I was becoming aware of old age because of my weakness in the face of love.

But in my heart I knew that just like the new grass, I wasn't strong enough yet to be walked on

Humble souls are fearful of their own strength.

The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared.

I fancied I had some constancy of mind because I could bear my own sufferings, but found through the sufferings of others I could be weakened like a child.

One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to have to recognize, this is an area of weakness in my life. I have been tempted here before and before and before.

I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.

It's hard to let new stuff in. And whether that admits a weakness, I don't know.

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?

What makes Hulk afraid? It's himself. It's a version of himself that's weak. It's a version of himself that's vulnerable. It's a child inside of him.

I'd always tried to resist playing the supervirility thing. I liked showing the vulnerability of age.

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.

A heart that hurts is a heart that works.

To be weak, and to know it, is something of a punishment for a proud man.

I was a young, new, hot star, and I had this unbelievable arrogance. As time went on, the strident narcissism and arrogance slowly diminished. But I was definitely there. I'm older now. And a big crybaby.

I see myself as having this innate weakness that a lot of times will get confused with kindness, but I know that it's often more weakness than kindness.

Strength comes in so many forms. Not just the physical strength, but to understand the emotional strength. To have emotional vulnerability, to show that's not a weakness.

What I've had to learn is that I'm also fragile.

I'm not tough.

Age, that acquaints us with infirmities in ourselves, should make us tender in our reprehension of weakness elsewhere.

I like to think that I'm a really strong, tough person, but I'm not. I'm a very, very needy person. I'm very insecure. I'm very impressionable. But, there is a side of me that is very put-together, very strong, very capable and very opinionated. It's the two sides of myself.

I am stronger than words and I am bigger than the box I'm in, and then I see her in the crowd and I fall apart -I am listening and I am listening because what I'm playing isn't something I'm thinking about, it's something I'm feeling all over.