Jen Lancaster Quotes

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 have this recurring nightmare where I'm giving a speech in front of my old high school classmates, and they start laughing at me, and I look down and realize I'm naked. And a shark.

I have a fear of doing stuff that's not very good and being remembered for that.

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.

I always think that I've embarrassed myself.

When I was 13, I was in my tent at Girl Scout camp, trying to change out of my bathing suit and talking at the same time. I fell out of the tent in front of everyone with my bathing suit around my ankles. I was humiliated - but no amount of humiliation has ever seemed to stop me.

I was embarrassing against Spinks.

Falling in front of an audience - that's, like, my biggest fear.

Acting is embarrassing.

I stand there, feeling broken and small, thousands of eyes trained on me.

Embarrassment is the worst! It's the feeling of having your entire body go numb and not knowning what to do with yourself for that one moment

…there is no nakedness that compares to being naked in front of someone for the first time.

A lot can change because you are embarrassed by something.

My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next.

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

I've spent my life being embarrassed.

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

My films are about embarrassment.

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

I wouldn't inflict my naked body on any paying audience.

I try not to worry about what that's going to look like. If you worry about looking stupid, that's when you look really stupid.

I don't even like to be naked in front of myself!

I'm even embarrassed at times when my friends come upon my pictures.

Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.