Embarrassing famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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It’s embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder.
-- Aldous Huxley -
For me, I'm OK doing embarrassing things, when it's with somebody else. I'm not the only person to look at.
-- Amy Smart -
My parents are older, and they lead a somewhat sheltered life. It was difficult to talk with them about things that were embarrassing to me, and that I had never spoken to them about
-- Anita Hill -
It's so embarrassing to receive an award for doing what you should be doing.
-- Arthur Hiller -
The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.
-- Arthur Miller -
It's all right leaping about the stage when you're 20 but when you get to 25 it gets a bit embarrassing
-- Bill Wyman -
I don't like to think about being an influence. It's embarrassing.
-- Bruce Nauman -
There are no embarrassing answers-just embarrassing questions.
-- Carl T. Rowan -
There aren't any embarrassing questions — just embarrassing answers.
-- Carl T. Rowan -
You think I don't know about wrong love, June? You think I don't understand embarrassing love?
-- Carol Rifka Brunt -
For three years, I had embarrassing haircuts.
-- Chris Hemsworth -
But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya.
-- Christian Bale -
There was an embarrassing moment at a recent Democratic fundraiser. When John Kerry was handed a $10 million dollar check, he said, 'I do.'
-- Craig Kilborn -
I feel like a lot of life is distasteful and embarrassing. And you just push through it. You fix what you can, and you let time pass.
-- Curtis Sittenfeld -
I was 30 before I made a living that was not embarrassing.
-- Daniel Clowes -
I will never shy away from embarrassing myself for a good cause
-- David Cook -
I like pot, I enjoy pot, I like to smoke it. But, the one thing I don't like about pot is the subculture it's spawned. I think it's embarrassing and really juvenile and uncreative
-- David Cross -
[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.
-- David Graeber -
I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.
-- Edie Falco -
I don't have Facebook or Twitter accounts yet. Being a compulsive storyteller, I always make up for myself discouraging stories about how such accounts will get me into embarrassing and time-consuming situations.
-- Etgar Keret -
My parents were hugely supportive like that. I was always the best - it's so embarrassing, isn't it? I was always the best at everything.
-- Francesca Annis -
Obama's not embarrassing. The country is embarrassing.
-- Harvey Weinstein -
It is the answers, not the questions, that are embarrassing.
-- Helen Suzman -
Basically, my life is so boring, it's embarrassing.
-- Hugh Grant -
Most of my conscious efforts have ended in embarrassing failure...
-- Ingmar Bergman -
You know what, when you screw up in the ring, it's so embarrassing.
-- Jake Roberts -
Even if I tried to be my dad, it would be a mediocre, slightly embarrassing version.
-- Jason Ritter -
You guys are just standing up because I fell, and it's so embarrassing.
-- Jennifer Lawrence -
It is embarrassing to be caught and killed for stupid reasons
-- Jenny Holzer -
I can finally see that all the terrible parts of my life, the embarrassing parts, the incidents I wanted to pretend never happened, and the things that make me "weird" and "different," were actually the most important parts of my life. They were the parts that made me ME.
-- Jenny Lawson -
Everything you listen to when you are 17 should be embarrassing, otherwise you are way too cool.
-- Jessica Brown Findlay -
It is an embarrassing time to be an American. It really is. It's humiliating.
-- Jessica Lange -
To me, failure is not fatal unless you quit; getting knocked down is not embarrassing unless you allow it to keep you down.
-- John Ashcroft -
Now that I've had a book published, it is quite validating, but a bit embarrassing.
-- Jon McGregor -
I've been embarrassing myself publicly for over 20 years. Why should I stop now?
-- Juliana Hatfield -
If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing.
-- Julie Andrews -
A threatened nation can react to uncertain dangers solely through administrative channels, to the truly embarrassing situation of perhaps overreacting
-- Jurgen Habermas -
It's almost embarrassing how well-behaved I was, which is probably why I do things like spit water on myself onstage as an adult.
-- Karen O -
I got caught kissing. Like by my parents. It was so horrible. It's so embarrassing, I'm blushing.
-- Katie Holmes -
What's so good about a heaven where, one of these days, you're going to get your embarrassing old body back?
-- Marsha Norman -
I don't know any jokes, which is embarrassing. I wish I did.
-- Marty Feldman -
My experiences are universal. I'm not doing anything embarrassing - to me what would be embarrassing is to talk about minutia. It would be embarrassing to get up there and not say anything.
-- Mary Gauthier -
Primate books are good for us. They remind us that we're primates, too. And the embarrassing primate books are best. Macachiavellian Intelligence is an excellently embarrassing primate book, and just the thing to make us blush and shuffle our feet.
-- Michael Bywater -
On planes I always cry. Something about altitude, the lack of oxygen and the bad movies. I cried over a St. Bernard movie once on a plane. That was really embarrassing.
-- Michael Stipe -
Russian ladies, for the most part, cherish only Platonic love, without mingling any thought of matrimony with it; and Platonic love is exceedingly embarrassing.
-- Mikhail Lermontov -
I'm very much in denial that I can't dance. I really go for it, which is almost more embarrassing.
-- Miranda Hart -
It is not without fear and trembling that a historian of religion approaches the problem of myth. This is not only because of that preliminary embarrassing question: what is intended by myth? It is also because the answers given depend for the most part on the documents selected.
-- Mircea Eliade -
It's pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven't done much and are a celebrity.
-- Nastassja Kinski -
When I had dyslexia, they didn't diagnose it as that. It was frustrating and embarrassing. I could tell you a lot of horror stories about what you feel like on the inside.
-- Nolan Ryan -
There is never an embarrassing silence that can't be turned into a regrettable conversation.
-- Robert Breault -
It's a bit embarrassing watching myself, but I couldn't get someone else to play me, that would've been stupid
-- Sean Lennon -
I work with really cool people, and so far I haven't been approached in any embarrassing manner when it comes to image.
-- Sondre Lerche -
Unless you are a Bernard Shaw you find a preface a most embarrassing business.
-- Stacy Aumonier -
Every day, I have a most embarrassing moment.
-- Steven Hill -
I don't read music, which is a shame, actually, and I shouldn't even speak of it because it's embarrassing, but it's true.
-- Susanna Hoffs -
The SOAP stack is generally regarded as an embarrassing failure these days.
-- Tim Bray -
Mr. Anderson thinks that everything inside of him is worthless and embarrassing. Isn't that right, Todd? And that's your worse fear.
-- Tom Schulman -
I dont know if its embarrassing, but I have a lot of girl Christian music.
-- Tony Oller -
Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat.
-- Tracy Letts -
It was beyond embarrassing or humiliating or even mortifying. It was ego-slaying!
-- Wendelin Van Draanen -
I fear if I cannot think again, if my mind suddenly goes blank. It will be embarrassing.
-- Goenawan Mohamad -
Every new generation of smartphone just has a different-shaped button. It's embarrassing.
-- How to Dress Well -
I love to meet the fans. I just get embarrassed with those who weep. I don't know what to do or what to say. It's a very embarrassing situation.
-- Nathaniel Buzolic -
You pretty much have to be bad at it [stand-up] for several years to get good at it, so there's no avoiding embarrassing yourself.
-- W. Kamau Bell -
It's almost embarrassing to go back into my liberal background because it was about as shallow a belief system as humanly possible.
-- Andrew Breitbart -
It's very embarrassing to be put on the spot.
-- Bess Truman -
It was awkward and embarrassing, but you have to go through things, ... I got through it and I'm happy it's over with and I can move forward and start playing.
-- Eddie Griffin -
Once I was playing and moving around and I fell right on my back. Just straight on my back. It was the most embarrassing moment of my life.
-- Tommy Bolin -
Exciting underground stuff is easier to find with YouTube than it used to be. You don't have to go to the dive bar in the bad part of town to see a band you would never usually see. My personal experience with it, when I was looking for a new lead guitarist, I was able to stalk guitarists on Youtube. And instead of having a horribly embarrassing auditioning process, I could check out peoples' playing. In some ways, you go into a record shop and the selection is narrower than it used to be with pop ruling the roost, but if you look, there's so much more to be found.
-- KT Tunstall