Jessica Lange Quotes

I feel non-stop Brit shame!

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

The most demeaning experience any country ever had to bear.

‘Crowning’ the landlords and parading them through the villages. This sort of thing is very common. A tall paper-hat is stuck on the head of one of the local tyrants or evil gentry, bearing the words ‘Local tyrant so-and-so’ or ‘So-and-so of the evil gentry’. He is led by a rope and escorted with big crowds in front and behind. Sometimes brass gongs are beaten and flags waved to attract people's attention. This form of punishment more than any other makes the local tyrants and evil gentry tremble. Anyone who has once been crowned with a tall paper-hat loses face altogether and can never again hold up his head. Hence many of the rich prefer being fined to wearing the tall hat. But wear it they must, if the peasants insist.

The cheek of every American must tingle with shame as he reads the silly, flat, and dish-watery utterances of the man who has to be pointed out to intelligent foreigners as President of the United States.

They [the Americans] feel strongly the disgrace of having had their capital taken by a handful of men and blame very generally a government which went to war without the means or ability to carry it out.

I'm terrified at the prospect of Donald Trump becoming president. I think he's disgusting, he's offensive. I think that it would be embarrassing for our country to have him sit down with world leaders and try and have a conference or even take a photo op. So we'll see what happens, but it's a very pivotal time in the U.S.

Journalists are out to trap me with my underwear showing.

Back in the day you used to have a fight. You win, you lose, you get up and go home, dust yourself down. Social media made it so that if you lose a fight it is on camera, you are embarrassed and you are forced to react.

I don't do nothin' unless I risk humiliating myself and really embarrassing myself. When I have that hanging over my head, it allows me to rise to the occasion.

Are you kidding?" She looked at me as if I'd just dropped from the moon. Her cheeks were bright red. "What's the problem now?" I demanded. "Me, go with you to the...the 'Thrill Ride of Love'? How embarrassing is that? What if somebody saw me?" "Who's going to see you?" But my face was burning now, too. Leave it to a girl to make everything complicated. "Fine," I told her. "I'll do it myself." But when I started down the side of the pool, she followed me, muttering about how boys always messed things up.

[To Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, on his return from self-imposed exile, occasioned by the embarrassing flatulence he had experienced in the presence of the Queen:] My Lord, I had forgot the fart.

Because of the Republicans, I'm not ashamed of being an American. I'm embarrassed!

So you go on and on, with this intellectual fly down, your underwear exposed, and toilette paper hanging out the back of your pants.

It's very embarrassing to be put on the spot.

The most effective way of attacking vice is to expose it to public ridicule. People can put up with rebukes but they cannot bear being laughed at: they are prepared to be wicked but they dislike appearing ridiculous.

I feel, for the first time, ashamed to be an American because we elected [Donald Trump].

Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat.

Obama is not embarrassing. The country is embarrassing.

It's so damned humiliating.

Publicly humiliating someone for your own gain will only come and haunt you. God's going to have his revenge.

Many take pleasure in spreading abroad the weakness of an exalted character.

The Tonys ignored West Side Story. The Tonys ignored Gypsy. It's a kind of public humiliation.

If you listen to the political discourse in America today, you would think that all our problems have been caused by the Mexicans of the Chinese or the Muslims. The reality is that we have caused our own problems. Whatever has happened has been caused by isolating ourselves or blaming others.

Republicans are taking the defeat over Health Care as well as Tiger Woods took to marriage.