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Quotes About Embarrassment

I admire that Robin isn't scared to show up every day, since he gets embarrassed every day.
~ Brook Lopez
It's hard for me to get embarrassed, but the things that do embarrass me would be if anybody ever heard my wife and I talking in our robust, made-up language.
~ Rob Delaney
For some reason, as a kid, I felt outwardly embarrassed to say that I liked rock music. I don't know where that came from. For me, it just wasn't cool - orchestral music was cool.
~ Michael Giacchino
I feel embarrassed at times when I come off the pitch because we are losing games and not scoring goals and conceding goals. It's not nice.
~ Matt Doherty
You know what, when you screw up in the ring, it's so embarrassing.
~ Jake Roberts
I was on stage and I was like I will pay someone to do my time, not only will I expect NOT to be paid, but I will pay someone if I can run off stage right now. It was so bad.
~ Julia Sweeney
It's so embarrassing and painful to be young.
~ Elif Batuman
I would wear entirely one color: tutus, furry pants. It was totally outrageous. My family was deeply embarrassed to be seen with me.
~ Hailey Gates
One time I laughed so hard, I just had to go and change my pantyhose. I lost it. Lost it. At least it wasn't onstage.
~ Anne Meara
For the government, there is the frustration of not being a full part of the anti-Isis coalition. For ministers to have their position restrained by our parliament is an embarrassment with their international colleagues.
~ Crispin Blunt
You mean..." Billy exclaimed at last, "you mean..." – his voice rose high and clear – "you mean..." – and he jumped to his feet, and standing there under the giant trees, pointed at himself, a small outraged boy named William Martin Quarrier, aged eight: "You mean I just came crashing down into Ma's under-pants?
~ Peter Matthiessen
He just hit himself in the dinger with a rubber.
~ Phil Brooks
There was a long silence while they sat there staring at each other, a moment that was rudely interrupted by the sound of Max breaking wind.
~ Philip Caveney
What does it say about us when our intimacy is an embarrassment and our hostility is normalized?
~ Philip Gulley
People get embarrassed about admitting they feel low but you can't help the way you feel. Which is why exercise, taking vitamins and having time out for meditation are so important.
~ Shirley Ballas
You see failed vocabulary in the adult world so often, and it's often because once you reach a certain age you're kind of embarrassed to go look up a word if you don't know what it means.
~ Daniel Handler
My mum's very vocal about me, aye. She's very proud. It's just a bit embarrassing.
~ Carl Frampton
The first time I performed at the Comedy Store in Los Angeles, I was in the back of the room doing vocal exercises. 'Me-me-me, my-my-my, mo-mo-mo.' And I'm looking around, and no one else is doing it. I'm like, 'They must have done it before they came to the club.' I came to realize that I was an idiot.
~ Maz Jobrani
People would ask, 'Why is your vocal cord paralyzed?' I said it was a virus. I didn't say it was an elective procedure to add hair to the front of my head. It was embarrassing. There's an embarrassing element to that.
~ Joe Buck
We used to get published a lot. And there was this vodka advertisement... it embarrassed me a lot afterwards.
~ Robin Day
I don't really get embarrassed a lot because I feel like life goes on. I mean, I fell on stage one time; like, I tripped one time. My voice cracked... That's pretty embarrassing.
~ Jay Park
My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.
~ Colin Firth
Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that there's a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life.
~ Suzanne Vega
's one of the perversities of the age: I'm embarrassed by its success, but I'm happy it's selling.
~ Jonathan Franzen