Judd Apatow Quotes

You ask anybody what their number one fear is, and it's public humiliation. Multiply that on a global scale, and that's what I've been through.

Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.

The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.

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

I always think that I've embarrassed myself.

I went on television and I wouldn't say a word; I feel so stupid when I watch them again.

One of my very greatest fears as a child was being ridiculed in public. And there it was coming true. As a television presenter, I'd been respected. People come up to you in the street and shake your hand and talk to you in a respectful way.

A lot can change because you are embarrassed by something.

Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I'd hide my face in the dark, I wouldn't want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried everyday.

I'm not much of a crier but it is mildly soul-destroying and exposing to do something physical that you are terrible at in front of other people.

I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don't want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard.

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.

Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.

I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule.

Well, that embarrassment gene, I don't really have a lot of it.

I was a bed wetter till very late. My mom used to hang my sheets out the window to dry, and I'd have to run home from school in order to beat the other kids to my house so they wouldn't see them.

I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.

I'm still traumatized that I'm going to be on a big screen in a white bikini and naked so who knows!

I am going to embarrass myself. I have accepted that fact, and that's just how it's going to be.

Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and wonder how I do these things. I can embarrass myself so badly that I literally get a hot prickle down the back of my neck.

Some people play very, very well just so they won't get embarrassed.

I don't really experience much embarrassment.

Once I got beat by Mayweather I felt so ashamed. I cancelled all my functions, all my appearances, I didn't want to walk down the street. I was too embarrassed to even go and have a pint with my mates.

For years I would sit on the side when my friends swam in the water. There is no feeling worse than that, to be afraid of what people will say about you, or to be embarrassed by who you are and what you are.

Singing in public makes me very uncomfortable.