David Sedaris Quotes

It's awkward: Here you are with most of your clothes off in bed with this person who you've really just met. You're strangers to each other's bodies and you're coming together for the first time in front of all these people.

It was a weird sensation. Like getting caught eavesdropping, or lying, or sitting on the toilet and having the bathroom walls suddenly drop away.

Bones leaned back, studying me. I felt so self-conscious. If only I had a shield of makeup, some perfectly arranged hair... and oh yeah. Some panties.

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.

My films are about embarrassment.

I'm not sure that I am able to feel embarrassment.

15 people in a room looking at you with no clothes on - that's a little weird.

Watching a make-out while wrapped in a blanket with a guy she wanted to make out with made her feel exposed. Obvious. Transparent. Like her thoughts were flashing before his eyes. Finally Brett managed to pull away without consent of Bekka's lips. The confusion created a sloppy bite-a-juicy-peach sound. Everyone cringed.

Ninety percent of true love is acute, ear-burning embarrassment.

I just walked out of the room. I was like, I'm embarrassed, so I need to leave.

Oh my God. What in—” I was going to be killed by two generations of beautiful women. While naked. “Mom,” Isabel snapped, interrupting. “Do you mind not staring? It’s totally perv.

The worst was when my skirt fell down to my ankles, but I had on thick tights underneath.

My day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next.

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.

I've generally got low levels of embarrassment.

I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.

It's always weird to shoot when you're really basically not wearing anything.

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

Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.

But, you know, it's still a drag to get your picture taken when you're eating a sandwich. It's a downer.

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

It's so fun to hear the reaction from Martin Scorsese as he sees you nude for the first time.

I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would kill me.

If I were trying to avoid embarrassment, I wouldn't have stumbled my way through 'Dancing with the Stars.'