Penelope Wilton Quotes

My first job, which I had to take when not more than fifteen, was assistant to a fruit peddler. It seemed all right to me until a little girl told me snootily, 'We never deal with peddler!' Thereupon I resigned, ashamed of what I was doing.

I don't get embarrassed.

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 go out there and make a fool of myself. It's inevitable.

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.

He who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated.

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

One time I had an awkward moment on purpose, you know, just to see what it feels like. I slipped getting out of my car at a big event. I got out of the car and fell face first into the street. A lot of cameras were on me. I was pretty embarrassed. I did it on purpose, though.

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.

Don't forget, I was the soft, pudgy kid in school that everyone made fun of.

Some people will humiliate themselves or their families just to be on television.

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.

One man's transparency is another's humiliation.

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

If somebody on this team actually gets to first base, I'll stand there naked.

My films are about embarrassment.

Whenever the subject of doing reality television comes up, I immediately disregard it, because most people don't come off well, and it's embarrassing.

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

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

I've put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.

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.

Apparently I'm the most naked that anyone's been on TNT. My poor mother. I'm ready to run away.

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.

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.

He who is ashamed would like to force the world not to look at him, not to notice his exposure. He would like to destroy the eyes of the world.