Self-Exposure Quotes

I'm not comfortable doing nudity. That's something quite personal.

My life has been an open book, for better or for worse.

I think I'm taking risks and putting myself out there.

Reading about myself on public platforms makes me uncomfortable. I don't like it. I read other people's interviews or articles, but when it comes to myself, if I see something about myself then I immediately turn over the page.

My life is an open book. You're welcome to speculate.

Authenticity is also about the courage and the vulnerability to say, "Yeah, I'll try it. I feel pretty uncomfortable and I feel a little vulnerable, but I'll try it!"

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I'm willing to show you. In you, it's courage and daring. In me, it's weakness.

By cool, I don't mean cool. I mean vulnerable and a mess.

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 feel like, in acting classes, you'll get up sometimes; that's just the most vulnerable position you can be in. You're among your fellow actors, yet they look at you, and they're like, 'You've been on TV. You've been in movies.' It almost adds to the pressure.

He had shown her all the workings of his soul, mistaking this for love.

Vulnerability is not weakness.

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.

Someone is always taking a video of me or snapping a photo.

When you mess up publicly, it can be difficult to get vulnerable again or to put yourself out there.

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

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

I got kind of scared when I thought they wanted me to do something... I didn't want to be naked on the front of a magazine unless everybody would know it was a joke. I wouldn't want to be naked even then.

In a way it was like washing your laundry in public and, yep, there you go, you've seen my underwear. And now I feel like there's nothing left, you've seen it all and I can get on.

Your weak point is the open, vulnerable place where you can always be hurt. Love, in all its aspects, opens the self so fully.

As a writer, if you're prepared to work from your own wound, you're allowing people into the most vulnerable parts of yourself.

I don't have a problem showing vulnerability.

In order for connection to happen, we have to allow ourselves to be seen, really seen.

Loving's pretty easy. It's letting someone love you that's hard.

I have to expose myself and then accept the judgment that audiences and critics will have. And that's okay. I appreciate the elliptical nature of it. Sometimes people are more in the mood to be nice to me than others, and that's great.