Bill Cosby Quotes

I was so ashamed of who I was.

I have two books that were published quite some time ago. I start to read about three sentences. I have to close it. I am so self-conscious. Who did I think I was?

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I'm glad I lived out both roles.

God knows I tried to make it earlier in life, but with all due respect to myself, nothing I ever did was any good.

A lot can change because you are embarrassed by something.

I would be upset if I was on the 'worst dressed'. It would make me think, 'Surely I haven't done anything that horrific - have I?'

Doubt is the brother of shame.

I had to admit I'd pretty much failed at the whole low-profile thing.

Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done.

I won't lie, I've had a lot of discouraging moments in the past years, moments I wasn't sure about things and doubted myself.

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

I had this inferiority complex as a child, as I was not good at speaking. I was also not good in studies or sports and would often flunk in four-five subjects.

I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the arena and I'm like, 'My back hurts, my feet hurt, my knees hurt. I don't have it. I just want to chill.' We all have self-doubt. You don't deny it, but you also don't capitulate to it. You embrace it.

I was ashamed for people to see me struggle.

I always think that I've embarrassed myself.

I have a past of making a fool of myself.

I wish I had more confidence.

My behavior is humiliating.

Today self-consciousness no longer means anything but reflection on the ego as embarrassment, as realization of impotence: knowing that one is nothing.

I don't often see the movies I'm in; I'm usually disappointed in myself and it only serves to make me self-conscious.

To write is a humiliation.

I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.

I wasn't academically successful. And maybe I've spent a lot of my career trying to make up for that.

I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes.

I walked on eggshells a lot. I have a bad self-esteem problem, and my father probably facilitated it. He once looked at me very seriously when I was about 15 and had whipped cream smeared all over myself. He said, 'You'd do anything for a laugh, wouldn't you?'