Faith Hunter Quotes

No one wants to get beat up in front of the world.

It's so damned humiliating.

It was dripping and, you know, and there was a whole line of cameras and microphones. I felt like - you remember the honor guards, only it was a dishonor guard.

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

Public downfalls are more painful and humiliating than private ones.

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

I feel like if I won an award and I was giving my speech and the music started, that's all I'd remember, the humiliation I felt when the music started. It would mar the entire experience for me.

In falling over in heels while trying to look attractive, you don't just hurt your body, you bear the humiliation of injuring your very soul. Physical pain? Whatever, bring it on. But the humiliation? Oh, you have seen to the very weakest part of me.

I'm delighted to make as many people feel ashamed as possible. There's probably a site like that for everybody. I've heard Newt Gingrich has his own as well.

In 1984, I starred in 'Greystoke: The Legend Of Tarzan,' my first movie. My lines ended up being dubbed by Glenn Close, supposedly because my accent was 'too southern'. It was completely humiliating at the time. I became a laughing stock. I'm amazed that I managed to pick myself up and dust myself off.

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

Anne hated the idea of putting me down in front of the audience.

I can't understand why people so readily put themselves up to be humiliated.

I am sincerely mortified to be thus brought forward on the public stage against my love of silence … and my abhorrence of dispute.

When you mess up publicly, it can be difficult to get vulnerable again or to put yourself out there.

I don't want to end up being some joke on a bad TV series.

Nobody would want their lowest moment to be filmed for the world to see.

Getting kicked out of Cube has tarnished my reputation and disgraced myself.

I know how much embarrassment hurts, and I love it as a theme because you can keep digging a hole. It's just an endless well, embarrassment.

What was more humiliating, I wondered: having to beg for someone's cold chicken bones or being offered them?

It's not just the embarrassment of tears. That's part of it, no doubt, but what embarrasses me much more, and always will, is the paralysis that took my heart. A moral freeze: I couldn't decide, I couldn't act, I couldn't comport myself with even a pretense of modest human dignity.

There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation - at least so it seemed to me.

Humiliation is a guest that only comes to those who have made ready his resting-place, and will give him a fair welcome. ... no one can disgrace you save yourself.

Did I try to embarrass other people? Now if it's about other people, guilty guilty guilty guilty.

A wave of blood goes up to my head, my stomach shrinks together, as if something dangerous has just missed hitting me. It's as if I've been caught stealing, or telling a lie; or as if I've heard other people talking about me, saying bad things about me, behind my back. There's the same flush of shame, of guilt and terror, and of cold disgust with myself. But I don't know where these feelings have come from, what I've done.