Quotes About Embarrassment

I was embarrassed when I went and told my parents that I was thinking about running for public office.

I've been embarrassing myself publicly for over 20 years. Why should I stop now?

Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actually, in the word of the publisher, she's 'collaborating' on a book. What an embarrassment! It's one of these 'I told you,' books that jocks do.

A microphone pack once fell down my knickers and nearly pulled my pants down.

I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics.

I wasn't absolutely too sure where the Falklands was, and I didn't want to make a bloody fool of myself.

I have a past of making a fool of myself.

I've always made a fool out of myself.

I think we all fear appearing foolish in public. We don't want to be laughed at.

It is so funny because I was always embarrassed because I never had formal training in acting.

I played American when I was, like, fourteen, and I was awful. I cringed the whole way through.

I'm not funny in person. I mean I'm really not. I'm one of those people who always screw up anecdotes.

O'Malley did it for the express purpose of embarrassing me in an election year." The President's eyes locked on MacVeagh's, but the younger man grinned.

Humiliation, by the way, is a truly terrible emotion. It's at the bottom of the pile.

Elizabeth couldn't help thinking that if Winston got any redder, they'd have to paint a white line in front of him and use him as a stop sign.

It's not even necessarily the will or want to win. It's the shame and embarrassment of losing.

My first course came and I put down my book, and I just happened to put up my hand to scratch my head and discovered that my toupee had been blown by the wind and was folded over backwards on the top of my head!

Unfortunately, there tends to be an easy way of doing things in life and the Haskell way. As a 12-year-old I knocked my front teeth out while chasing a friend in the rain. I'm the type who offers to serve wine at drinks parties and accidentally pours it down one of the guests.

I didn't like doing team presentations at races, being introduced as the winner of the Tour. I felt quite embarrassed by it.

When I was doing 'Smile,' I was looking back at pictures of myself and going, 'Thank goodness I couldn't do the sprayed-bangs thing! Everybody's so embarrassed by that hairstyle now, but I was never cool enough to pull it off!'

For every musician there's a certain point when your kids get to 13 or 14 and you become an embarrassment. They don't want you to drop them off at school and they don't like that you are different from the other parents, but thankfully mine are over that now, and are pretty cool with what I do.

When you are standing in a corner at the party, when you've arrived early for the meeting, when the doors have closed but the lift won't start, there's nothing worse than being lost for words.

I did a commercial when I was, like, 5 or 6 years old for... what was it called?... Cabbage Patch Kids! That was the first thing I ever did. Little bit embarrassing.

It's like, whether or not you're humiliated or embarrassed or you do well is contingent on the choices that you make in your work. So that is a lot of pressure to be like, 'Oh no, am I doing the right thing? Am I doing something cool? Am I doing something bad?'