Rick Moody Quotes

I think it's the human condition to be frequently embarrassed by your parents.

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.

I would like to be able to disappear whenever I do something dorky.

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 think we all fear appearing foolish in public. We don't want to be laughed at.

I've spent my life being embarrassed.

I've generally got low levels of embarrassment.

For some reason, people look at me and laugh. I don't know why.

I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don't want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard.

My films are about embarrassment.

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

Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.

I mean, I haven't been around very long. I can't expect everyone to have seen 'The House Bunny'. Oh God. I am having such waves of internal embarrassment, which now I'm admitting on a tape recorder. This is so one of the things I should keep in my head.

He who is ashamed would like to force the world not to look at him, not to notice his exposure. He would like to destroy the eyes of the world.

I'm not sure that I am able to feel embarrassment.

Well, that embarrassment gene, I don't really have a lot of it.

In junior high P.E., I was way too shy to take a shower in front of the other kids. It was a horribly awkward time - body hair, odors... So I'd go from my sweaty shirt back into my regular clothes and have to continue the day.

You ask anybody what their number one fear is, and it's public humiliation. Multiply that on a global scale, and that's what I've been through.

I always think that I've embarrassed myself.

Talking money is crass; so I'm not going to tell you what I made last year.

Time and time again, as a boy, I was humiliated. I celebrated my first day in long pants by going to a dance where I fell sprawling on the floor, and was so ashamed that I jumped up, ran away and left my girl to get home the best way she could.

To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.

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

Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.