Michel de Montaigne Quotes

Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.

I don't want anyone seeing me naked.

I don't like to take my clothes off.

I wouldn't inflict my naked body on any paying audience.

I don't even like to be naked in front of myself!

When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.

Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.

I'd need a good reason to drop my pants

There's a blush for won't, and a blush for shan't, and a blush for having done it: There's a blush for thought and a blush for naught, and a blush for just begun it.

Blushing is the most peculiar and the most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion, but it would require an overwhelming amount of evidence to make us believe that any animal could blush.

Oh, quit that. Blushing is for virgins and Christians.

In the next minute, I will be entirely naked. In the minute after that, fully dressed.

Blushing is the color of virtue.

I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.

The man that blushes is not quite a brute.

I don't mean to be bashful, but I was.

I feel like I could never walk around a film half-naked. I definitely wouldn't want to see that.

I've always been battling against my sense of dignity and refinement. I was embarrassed by any bodily functions when I was younger. I could never even blow my nose.

I find just being on set embarrassing. Mortifying. And that's with all my clothes on.

It's always embarrassing when somebody does something praiseworthy of you.

I am unwilling to strip completely before the cameras.

I don't think I'm that knowledgeable. I don't think I am that good looking even. I feel embarrassed when people say these things to me.

I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, OF needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace.

Does it bother you, me being half naked all the time?

We find animals doing things that we, in our arrogance, used to think was "just human".