Armand Assante Quotes

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

You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable.

I've always made a fool out of myself.

Standup is a place where, as long as it's funny enough, you can say your most embarrassing things, shameful things and disappointing things.

All our careers end the same: Face down and embarrassed.

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.

Of course, I have my ways of getting into trouble. We all have times when we think, Oh my God, can the world please swallow me up and take me away from this?

It's sometimes easier to do the impossible than to do the embarrassing.

Now I know what it is like to feel like a total idiot.

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

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 comedy I've learned is really just about relaxing and trusting yourself and allowing yourself to fail.

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

My films are about embarrassment.

I don't get embarrassed.

I've fallen over on stage a couple of times, but I've only ever bruised my ego.

Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.

The first thing you have to get used to in any kind of acting is the ability to make a fool of yourself. If you haven't learnt how to make a fool of yourself, you shouldn't be on the boards. That's absolutely what it's all about.

I have a past of making a fool of myself.

Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times they all are.

I've been embarrassing myself publicly for over 20 years. Why should I stop now?

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

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.

It wasn't my finest hour. It wasn't even my finest hour and a half.