Character Quote by Jesse Tyler Ferguson

I was vulnerable every day. Every night that I stepped on stage I was laying myself open.

— Michael Stipe

It's always interesting to play characters who are vulnerable and how you display that vulnerability and what it's going to mean to people who…

— Samuel L. Jackson

Vulnerability is huge. I love to see that in characters. It's something I feel like a lot of my comedic heroes have always done.

— Ed Helms

Somewhere, the audience relates to my characters and their vulnerability. I believe they see themselves in me.

— Swara Bhaskar

I've never been afraid of being vulnerable on stage. It's a large part of life, and I think it's being dishonest to disallow an…

— Nigel Hawthorne

I love finding the vulnerability in characters. There's truth there. There's beauty in vulnerability.

— Juan Pablo Di Pace

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.

— Brené Brown

Growing up, I was a very shy kid but I felt that being on stage or playing another character would somehow open me up.…

— Jesse Tyler Ferguson

I tend to find characters who lack vulnerability dull.

— Trenton Lee Stewart

The most vulnerable people have tough exteriors because they are very scared inside, and it's very hard for people like that - people like…

— Christina Aguilera

I had discovered a terrible vulnerability I myself which I think of not as cowardliness but as an ability to imagine too much.

— William Kittredge