Rachel Cusk Quotes

Everyone gets the feeling that they know you and they know your life, and I felt really embarrassed by that.

The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes.

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

Whenever you do anything public, you open yourself up to be criticized.

Nudity... I have to say I will never do it again.

In a way it was like washing your laundry in public and, yep, there you go, you've seen my underwear. And now I feel like there's nothing left, you've seen it all and I can get on.

To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes on. It's terrible.

Watching people see your picture for the first time is such a public agony.

We live in the public eye, so if one of us makes a mistake, it affects everyone, which makes me think about what I'm doing in life more.

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.

Show me someone who doesn't have some sort of experience that they would be uncomfortable for people to know about and I'll show you a dullard.

I know people will think it's funny because I've done glamour modelling in the past, but I felt embarrassed about my body and just wanted to cover it up.

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.

Everybody asks me what it was like to be in my underwear for my network television debut.

I don't want anyone seeing me naked.

I don't like to take my clothes off.

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

I think all of us feel like we're a bit on show, all the time.

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

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

The public already knows about me more than I ever wanted it to know.

I mean, I don't really pay too much attention publicly to what people think.

It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.

It's really hard to watch yourself on TV. It's definitely different in that the world has to watch, too.