Emotional Transparency Quotes

The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!

Even if you’ve taken off every stitch of clothing, you still have your secrets, your history, your true name. It’s hard to be really naked. You have to work hard at it. Just getting into a bath isn’t being naked, not really. It’s just showing skin.

If you're going to write a memoir, try to be as honest and open as you can.

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

When I first started writing songs and being very explicit, it was hard, but one of the main things people respond to in my writing is that 'just say it' attitude of my songs. There really is nothing personal or private; it's all universal, if you can just find the courage to be open about your life.

I think things are dishonest if they're not aware of sadness.

I spend my whole life trying to put up a front to prevent people from seeing certain parts of me. Weirdly, when I go to write, I feel like I have to expose it, almost compulsively.

I've never been uncomfortable putting my heart on display, my feelings on display, certainly with an audience.

Surely if each one saw another's heart, There would be no commerce, No sale or bargain pass: all would disperse And live apart.

opening up your soul to someone, letting them into your spirit, thoughts, fears, future, hopes, dreams ... that is being naked.

I remember hearing someone say that good acting is more about taking off a mask than putting one on, and in movie acting, certainly that's true. With the camera so close, you can see right down into your soul, hopefully. So being able to do that in a way is terrifying, and in another way, truly liberating. And I like that about it.

Do I have more depth than I'm given credit for? No!

We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!

I can't put bars on my insides; my love is something I can't hide.

A lot of people that are always trying to be funny and "on" and performing are just hiding. It's just a cover for what they really are and how they really feel.

If I write what my soul thinks it will be visible, and the words will be its body.

I think when you're live on TV in an unscripted environment a lot slips through the cracks of your real self. People can read my face, they know what I'm thinking.

In intimate relationships, if we start trying to be more real, it's very scary.

If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.

You can't express emotion without giving information.

The Blue album, there’s hardly a dishonest note in the vocals. At that period of my life, I had no personal defenses. I felt like a cellophane wrapper on a pack of cigarettes. I felt like I had absolutely no secrets from the world and I couldn’t pretend in my life to be strong. Or to be happy. But the advantage of it in the music was that there were no defenses there, either.

A TV camera goes right through your soul. If you're a bad person, people pick that up.

The SECRET to Love is in OPENING up your Heart

Natalie Portman's approach to acting demands that she wears her heart on her sleeve so explicitly, the heart becomes the whole garment - a crimson chemise with streaks of blue veins running across it.