Jessica Chastain Quotes

He who is ashamed would like to force the world not to look at him, not to notice his exposure. He would like to destroy the eyes of the world.

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

I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes.

A lot can change because you are embarrassed by something.

Doubt is the brother of shame.

I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don't want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard.

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?

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

Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.

I have a past of making a fool of myself.

It is the answers, not the questions, that are embarrassing.

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.

Shameful.

For years I would sit on the side when my friends swam in the water. There is no feeling worse than that, to be afraid of what people will say about you, or to be embarrassed by who you are and what you are.

I was really self conscious as a kid, I felt terrible - like a prisoner in my own body.

I know how much embarrassment hurts, and I love it as a theme because you can keep digging a hole. It's just an endless well, embarrassment.

Life is a series of embarrassing moments which leave you feeling alone in your confusion and shame

I know what it's like to feel snobby; I know what it's like to feel anxiety; I know what it's like to feel like busted because you're crazy.

Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I'd hide my face in the dark, I wouldn't want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried everyday.

I had just started ninth grade when I got my acne. And I had braces. I wouldn't look people in the eye. It was not a good time for me - it just killed my self-esteem. I thought when I didn't look at someone, they couldn't see my face.

I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.

I think we all fear appearing foolish in public. We don't want to be laughed at.

For some reason, people look at me and laugh. I don't know why.

My films are about embarrassment.

I'm very insecure.