Michael Beasley Quotes

I go out there and make a fool of myself. It's inevitable.

I can't understand why people so readily put themselves up to be humiliated.

My films are about embarrassment.

I try not to worry about what that's going to look like. If you worry about looking stupid, that's when you look really stupid.

I always just forced myself to do crazy things in public. In college I would push an overhead projector across campus with my pants just low enough to show my butt. Then my friend would incite the crowd to be like, 'Look at that idiot!' That's how I got over being shy.

In comedy, you have to be unafraid to hang from the tree branch naked in the high wind and you have to be absolutely unafraid to look ridiculous and silly.

I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes.

Of course, I have my ways of getting into trouble. We all have times when we think, Oh my God, can the world please swallow me up and take me away from this?

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.

My life is just a series of embarrassing incidents strung together by telling people about those embarrassing incidents.

I’m the girl who trips on the dance floor and can’t find her way to the exit. All eyes on me.

Acting is embarrassing.

I go to the British Comedy Awards and, you know, quite a few people were making jokes at my expense. It just made me feel awful, because I am there with my wife and she has gone out and bought a dress. And it is my big night and I won, and yet the overriding experience was that of nastiness.

It's possible the only thing I love more than working with Gabe Diani and Etta Devine is humiliating myself on film for all to see.

I like to think of myself as the corniest, most awful thing you could possibly imagine.

It's sometimes easier to do the impossible than to do the embarrassing.

I'm a terrible dancer. Terrible. Just the pits. And I had to do these cheerleading things and it was just cringe-worthy. I mean, I'm so bad, so that was painful.

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

And I'm a pair of pants with a hole scorched through the ass?

A man who for an entire week does nothing but hit himself over the head has little reason to be proud.

A lot of people can be very scared about making themselves vulnerable and appearing uncool. I don't really give a damn; as long as it's funny, I'll do it [make fun of myself].

If you make an ass out of yourself, there will always be someone to ride you.

Sometimes the things that come out of my mouth are mortifying.

If embarrassment were a muscle, I'd be huge.

Perhaps it's not that I'm frigid-- it's that once I decide I like a guy, I turn into a raging idiot, unfit for public appearances.