Chris Crutcher Quotes

I like, though, that people have a hunger to connect with other people. They're desperate to know that you're not lying to them or misleading them.

I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.

Well, it's really important to be honest with the person that you're seeing.

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

Be real. Make connections with people. Look them in the eye. Tell them how you feel. Don't be afraid to say what you mean. When you let go of the stuff you hold inside, you'll be amazed at what comes back to you.

Pretentiousness repels but authenticity attracts, and vulnerability is the pathway to intimacy.

I've actually found - especially doing my cabaret show - I'm connecting with people in a way I haven't connected with them. I've found that when you're open and honest, people respond to that, whatever you're being open and honest about. You could then, when you lay that as the groundwork, say, "Here I am. This is what I think. I come in peace." Then you're able to push out, to be able to talk about more things. And that's been a really heartening thing about my life, actually.

Fear is the great enemy of intimacy. Fear makes us run away from each other or cling to each other but does not create true intimacy.

When you're in the position I'm in, you have two options: you can either shut yourself off from everybody, from the world, and not live a full life. Or you welcome everybody into your life and occasionally somebody will try to take advantage. And I'd much rather be that person who lets people in.

Real intimacy is only possible to the degree that we can be honest about what we are doing and feeling.

If I create anything, I create the atmosphere of trust and openness.

My work is about the establishment of trust. For someone to share their authenticity with me is a soul-to-soul thing. It's not a lens-to-soul thing.

My best advice would be that you have to be vulnerable with each other. Like, everyone says you have to be honest, you have to communicate; like, yes, of course, but you gotta be willing to be vulnerable.

When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.

Be willing to share all of who you are. So many of us want a partner, but we're not willing to show all of us.

I've found that if I say what I'm really thinking and feeling, people are more likely to say what they really think and feel. The conversation becomes a real conversation.

Once you lose the honesty in a relationship, I mean, I think you don't have a relationship at all.

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.'

Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn't feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.

What I'm saying is that I tried very hard to give them my reality and my reality is kind of interesting.

When you're true to yourself - not the audience that reads about me in the newspaper or sees a clip someplace, but the audience that actually comes and watches, just like Oprah - they get to know you and they sense something genuine.

It's strong to be vulnerable. To be able to communicate with other women is one of the most powerful things.

I think it's impossible to be up close with people and to ask them to let you in if you're fake.

I feel like the more I share, the more relatable I am.