Embarrassing Quotes · Page 16

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial…

— David Graeber

There's nobody in the arts in my family. It was kind of embarrassing to even say that I wanted to be an…

— Frank Grillo

“Need I say more?' 'No, because you're wrong, and I'd hate for you to keep embarrassing yourself.”

— Erin McCahan

Tripping is embarrassing, but I have learned that where we stumble is the place we dig for gold—where we trip is where…

— Calvin Miller

It's embarrassing to say you want to be a comedian. Admitting that you want attention and you think you're such a laugh.

— Natasia Demetriou

If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing.

— Julie Andrews

A woman, if you're Most Intelligent or Most Likely to Succeed, that's an embarrassing thing. Or something that's not considered attractive, and…

— Sheryl Sandberg

I always entertain the notion that I'm wrong, or that I'll have to revise my opinion. Most of the time that feels…

— Anthony Bourdain

My style as a human being is to indulge people who need to escape, yet I insist on confronting them as a…

— Wallace Shawn

When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid things, but I…

— J. J. Abrams

The most embarrassing part of the film is that the new problem posed by simulation is confused with its classical, Platonic treatment…

— Jean Baudrillard

I have the embarrassing thing where often if you're watching a film, you kind of go through the emotions and the thought…

— Cate Blanchett

Oh, my god!" I said, throwing my hands over my eyes and hurtling my body against the counter. "What?" "You're naked." "I'm…

— Darynda Jones

Removing religious symbols from public places is not neutrality. On the contrary, it sends a highly negative message - that religion is…

— Charles Colson

The writer must be in it; he can't be to one side of it, ever. He has to be endangered by it.…

— Arthur Miller

My experiences are universal. I'm not doing anything embarrassing - to me what would be embarrassing is to talk about minutia. It…

— Mary Gauthier

Devil would probably never imagined, that an embarrassing work in the humans understands its elegance

— Mak_786

A lot of controversy over this possible invasion of Iraq. In fact, Nelson Mandela was so upset, he called Bush's dad. How…

— Jay Leno

I did a shoot for 'Sports Illustrated,' and my grandpa called me and asked when my issue of 'Playboy' was coming out.…

— Jasmine Tookes

Helena Bonham Carter was one of my biggest crushes. And Rachel Weisz. I think I told her that when we were filming,…

— Alicia Vikander

I like pot, I enjoy pot, I like to smoke it. But, the one thing I don't like about pot is the…

— David Cross

It certainly is an embarrassing fact, then, for certain classical scholars to have to face, that the Platonic Academy continued to function…

— Robert K. G. Temple

I'm sure that when my daughter will bring home her first boyfriend, I'll be so intimidating that he'll run away, but embarrassing…

— Robbie Williams

“What's the best way to say because it's too embarrassing to talk to a crush about sex and read an explicit thing…

— C.B. Lee

I don't really get embarrassed a lot because I feel like life goes on. I mean, I fell on stage one time;…

— Jay Park

My parents are older, and they lead a somewhat sheltered life. It was difficult to talk with them about things that were…

— Anita Hill

Most friendly fire incidents aren't investigated properly because of neglect or a natural inclination to cover up the embarrassing fact that they…

— Jon Krakauer

One loves one's country the way one loves a family member. And sometimes that family member does really embarrassing, shitty things. But…

— Matt Taibbi

My mum has recorded all my programmes and not watched one. My dad says he finds it embarrassing.

— Sue Perkins

“It's all very well to be an intellectual, but one shouldn't let other see. That's embarrassing.”

— Gail Carriger

What I hate is when something I've done is replaced by something better than what I've done. It's really embarrassing.

— Paula Scher

When I do shows in the U.K., I see lots of people bring their kids to the show. Which is perfect because…

— Clare Grogan

A lot of people have warned President Clinton that Bosnia will turn into another Vietnam, which would be embarrassing for him because…

— Bill Maher

I didn't like talking about my divorce. I think I viewed that as something that was embarrassing or a failure.

— Pete Holmes

I'm quite shy, so if there's a guy I like, I actually ignore him because I can't speak to him. I get…

— Silvia Colloca

Everyone saw me cry with happiness after I won the Beijing medals. It's really embarrassing.

— Ellie Simmonds

The term 'human rights defender,' incidentally, isn't something I or my attorneys came up with. Personally, I find it a little embarrassing.

— Ward Churchill

I may have the 'Twilight: Breaking Dawn' soundtrack, which I've been told is embarrassing, but come on, there are some good songs…

— Floriana Lima

Here's some advice: if something really embarrassing happens to your kid, don't take it on national TV.

— Tom Segura

It's pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven't done much and are a celebrity.

— Nastassja Kinski