Elsa Maxwell Quotes

Growing up, I was a nerd. With actual taped eyeglasses.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

I am not good at small talk. I will hide in a cupboard to avoid chitty-chat.

He was the smartest man I ever met.

The whole story of my humble contribution cannot be known or divulged …. The medal embarrasses me.

Adrian looked away from me and down to where my hand covered his. I blushed and pulled away. “Sorry” I’d probably freaked him out

One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed.

I really don't care about birthdays. It's something where even as a kid, I never really felt comfortable when someone would sing to me.

That’s an unfortunate place for a birthmark,” I said, more than a little unnerved that it was so similarly positioned to my own scar. Patch casually but noticeably slid his sleeve down over his wrist. “You’d prefer it someplace more private?” “I wouldn’t prefer it anywhere.” I wasn’t sure how this sounded and tried again. “I wouldn’t care if you didn’t have it at all.” I tried a third time. “I don’t care about your birthmark, period.

I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.

I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.

Normally I can't watch myself at all, and watching myself makes me cringe, and I cover my face, and it's very hard to watch.

It is such an uncomfortable feeling to know one is a fool.

Everything great and intelligent is in the minority

Disgusting. I just found my grandpa's Viagra. I swear, I almost puked from eating so many.

I may not be Einstein but I know dumb plus dumb equals you.

Much awkwardness ensued.

I'm not entirely comfortable saying I'm an actor, because it seems like a very weird, almost dorky thing to say you are. I laugh after every take just out of the discomfort I feel that I'm even on film. It's an awkward thing for me to be doing. Once we get going, it's always fine, and as we're shooting, I'm never thinking about it. I'd say that all my time in front of the camera is equally uncomfortable for me.

Embarrassment is the worst! It's the feeling of having your entire body go numb and not knowning what to do with yourself for that one moment

Genius, the Pythian of the beautiful, leaves its large truths a riddle to the dull.

I'm getting so old - it's more uncomfortable to do those scenes now than when I was 20. I mean, I don't have a big problem with nudity on screen. But usually the days when you do those naked love scenes are the weirdest ones on set. Everyone is uncomfortable. You're like, 'Hi. How are you?' Then the next minute you're with an actress who you don't know and you're pretending to make love to her in front of all the crew. The acting challenge is pretending things are OK.

I think that phrase is the most horrible phrase in the English language - 'I don't know.' It's terribly embarrassing.

My mother was like, "What did they teach you?", and I had never talked about that [sex-ed] so I freaked out.

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