Drew Barrymore Quotes

I really don't have a guilty pleasure.

Would a real man get caught eating a twinkie?

The land of embarrassment and breakfast.

The idea that the more you hide something, the more it becomes something that's supposed to feel shameful is very true.

Most people don't go around talking about their miscarriages. It's not really something you shout about. What's more, people often feel embarrassed or even guilty about them.

You'll be scandalized in the morning when you can think again.

I come home that morning, after I been fired, and stood outside my house with my new work shoes on. The shoes my mama paid a month's worth a light bill for. I guess that's when I understood what shame was and the color of it too. Shame ain't black, like dirt, like I always thought it was. Shame be the color of a new white uniform your mother ironed all night to pay for, white without a smudge or a speck a work-dirt on it.

Someone showed me a picture and I just laughed, dignity never been photographed.

It’s a simple truth that a secret is something you’re ashamed of.

I am too old to know how to put a naked photograph of myself on the Internet.

It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in solitude, or he may suffer the deepest remorse for an undetected crime, but he will not blush... It is not the sense of guilt, but the thought that others think or know us to be guilty which crimsons the face.

I'm trying to make you think I'm a decent person. Telling you I saw you naked while I was another species does not help my case

I can see us, living in the woods, her wearing that A, me with a S maybe, S for silent, S for stupid, for scared. S for silly. For shame.

I know people are going to be suspicious about everyone now. I know I don't have anything to hide. I've never done anything. It's just a shame it's gotten to this point.

My secrets are petty but humiliating.

I famously stole tons of VHS tapes from a video store I worked in. It was detailed in my special, Laboring Under Delusions. I worked at Tower Video and stole a bunch of videotapes from them, and then got caught and had to return the videotapes. It was a mortifying experience.

I feel crushingly embarrassed when I do bad work, so being rejected after doing bad work is actually harder than being rejected after doing good work.

A shamefaced man makes a bad beggar.

In shame there is no comfort but to be beyond all bounds of shame.

I've made a terrible confession to you, he concluded gloomily. Do appreciate it, gentlemen. And it's not enough, not enough to appreciate it, you must not just appreciate it, it should also be precious to you, and if not, if this, too, goes past your souls, then it means you really do not respect me, gentlemen. I tell you that, and I will die of shame at having confessed to such men as you.

When we sin, we are often upset, not because we have grieved the Spirit but because our pride has been injured.

Human Beings are the only animals that blush, or need to.

So secretly, like wrongs hushed-up, they went.

Tis no sin love's fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.

A bad conscience is easier to cope with than a bad reputation.