#vulnerable

Shoes are strange things. If you take your shoes off in a situation in which you're vulnerable, you'll feel 10 times more vulnerable. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#more #off #shoes #situation #strange

Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#borders #challenges #creates #globalisation #instruments

The first night was awful because I was so afraid, and I was never more afraid because it was going out of my character to be outgoing and to be vulnerable and to be out there and onstage. My hands were sweaty and I couldn't swallow, and I drank a bottle of wine to calm my nerves. ↗

— George Lopez

#awful #because #bottle #calm #character

Nobody's just arrogant. I've met people who are embattled and dismissive, but when you get to know them, you find that they're vulnerable - that that hauteur or standoffishiness is because they're pedaling furiously underneath. ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#because #find #furiously #get #i

In my experience of these things, parties which shout about dirty tricks and the like tend to do so because they fear a direct hit in some vulnerable part of their political anatomy. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#anatomy #because #direct #dirty #experience

I am resigning because my secret leaves the governor's office vulnerable. ↗

— James McGreevey

#because #governor #i #i am #leaves

We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked... not just pitter-patter, but real talk. We shouldn't be so afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable. ↗

— Liv Ullmann

#because #contact #free #good #just

I found that the more truthful and vulnerable I was, the more empowering it was for me. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#found #i #me #more #truthful

The more vulnerable and the more confused the song is, the equal and opposite effect is how I feel after having written it. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#confused #effect #equal #feel #having

Vivien Leigh was a phenomenal actress, a very complicated woman, living on the edge of mental problems, haunted by demons and angels. And though I've never thought of myself like Marilyn Monroe, I was inspired by the tremendous risk she took - of being vulnerable. ↗

— Rebecca De Mornay

#angels #being #complicated #demons #edge