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Quotes About Embarrassment

You may be embarrassed about the way you looked and the wacky clothes you wore when you were young, but normally, at least it's hidden in a box in the attic.
~ John Oates
The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don't want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage.
~ Garrison Keillor
I'm one of the only actresses in Los Angeles who has never waited tables - yet - and I'm so terrible at holding trays. When we shot the 'Vampire Diaries' pilot, I totally spilled water all down Nina Dobrev, and she had to get her hair and make-up redone.
~ Kayla Ewell
I was taking a connecting flight from Vijayawada to Hyderabad and Kajol was on the same flight. We were waiting for the lift and when I got in, the doors began closing. Kajol and her manager were all set to get in, but by then, the lift began moving up. I was so embarrassed that when I met her later, I apologized for the goof up.
~ Pranitha Subhash
I fell down in Hyde Park with a friend who'd had a hip operation, and neither of us could get up again. People must have thought we were a couple of drunks rolling around and walked on by.
~ Ava Gardner
I was doing the 'Vogue' fashion awards when I was 16, live on VH1. I was coming down the steps, and I'm a really hard walker. I hadn't had a mistake yet in my career. Everything had been perfect. So I come down the steps on live TV, and I slip. I didn't fall, but you could see the look on my face. I was mortified. I was devastated.
~ Jessica White
I always get carried away when I'm kissing. I just go nuts! Walking away after it is the strangest moment for me. It's embarrassing - not knowing what to say to each other.
~ Robert Pattinson
It was like a classic thing with Emma. So I walked in and I slammed the door and everything fell off the wall on the set. It was my second or third scene and I was so embarrassed and scared and so nervous about what everyone would say, but everyone just packed up laughing.
~ Dannii Minogue
I can't give birth to my own child; we know that. But it's still embarrassing to me, and that's just how I feel. It's a sensitive subject.
~ Gigi Gorgeous
I'm English. All we do is blush.
~ Joanna Coles
I never want to be seen in my boxer shorts ever again.
~ Christian Cooke
My face turns bright red when I run and will stay that way until the next day.
~ Michelle Beadle
Once I was 13 and on the bus with me mate Mary when we passed this little bit of green where all the winos used to go and it was a little bit embarrassing because I saw me dad there amongst them all. When it was bad, it was very bad.
~ Kathy Burke
When I was an actor, I worked with lots of men who had a bit of success early on, who were very good looking, who suddenly made a bit of money and who felt no embarrassment - and nor should they have done - about having a good time.
~ David Nicholls
I'm open that I suffer from really bad IBS and I think people get really embarrassed about stuff like that.
~ Megan McKenna
When I think back to my childhood, it's with a mixture of amusement and embarrassment. I was always forgetting things. My mum called me scatty because I could never sit still. But there was no sense I was suffering from a medical condition as such.
~ Rory Bremner
Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.
~ James Earl Jones
Others have criticized, and they have criticized themselves, into embarrassment.
~ Ray Bradbury
Okay. So...serious wedgie...
~ Joss Whedon
Self-revelation without analysis or understanding becomes merely an embarrassment to both reader and writer.
~ Judith Barrington
Has anyone ever told you how beautiful you are? she asked softly. A slow boyish smile spread across his features. What would you think if I told you no? Lauren laughed. I'd think you were trying to appear modest. Then what am I supposed to do now? he teased. I suppose you should try to look a little flustered and embarrassed by the flattery. I don't fluster or embarrass very easily. In that case, you could try to fluster me by telling me how I look, she hinted broadly.
~ Judith McNaught
You have to admit it's embarrassing that she's pregnant at thirty-three. And he's eleven years older. I feel sorry for their baby. Think of it—when the baby is our age your mother will be almost fifty and my father will be sixty. They'll be more like grandparents than parents.
~ Judy Blume
Mom stopped reading, closed the book, and started laughing her ass off. Behind her a bunch of old dudes reading newspapers looked up at her, all disapproving, like she'd just farted or something.
~ Walter Sorrells
All right, all right,' he [Leo] says. 'I know it's hilarious that Mrs. Kelly thinks I clogged up her toilet, but we have more important things to focus on.
~ Wendy Mass