Ari Shaffir Quotes

To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.'

I feel very bad about getting things wrong.

I have a fear of doing stuff that's not very good and being remembered for that.

I always think that I've embarrassed myself.

I get really very upset when I'm voted out, and I feel very disappointed.

I feel the producers really exploited my lack of talent at this time. I looked like an idiot up there. I want to be good, not something that people will laugh at.

I went on television and I wouldn't say a word; I feel so stupid when I watch them again.

You have a bad day at the office, four people know. You suck in a movie, everyone knows.

Anyone can lose a fight. That doesn't bother me. But the shame that comes afterwards is unbearable.

Getting booed off, definitely not the best feeling.

You create something, and when it doesn't work, it's kind of like people make fun of your kid or something.

The worst feeling in the world is giving a bad audition.

I will be known forever as the Puppy who chased a cutpurse and caught fish garbage instead. My descendants will pretend I'm not in their bloodline. No – no one will want to make descendants with me. [from Beka Cooper's journal of her first day as a new Dog i.e. cop]

A lot can change because you are embarrassed by something.

I'd auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and I didn't get a place and it was terrifying.

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 day goes from one embarrassing moment to the next.

I have an enormous sense of having failed in life.

There are several times when I walked into a room and just felt like such a sham. That's the problem with auditioning.

Every time I fumble or drop a ball I am embarrassed.

I always have a very strong sense of shaming oneself, and you can do that a lot in the public eye, so it's best avoided at all costs I think.

Auditioning for 'Philomena' was such a traumatic experience because I had three callbacks, and I was absolutely positive that I was just an option.

I had to admit I'd pretty much failed at the whole low-profile thing.

The first video I ever made, announcing 'Crash the Super Bowl,' I did about fifty takes and I wanted to die. It was awful.

Nothing is so embarrassing as watching someone do something that you said couldn't be done.