Zoe Kazan Quotes

Two women? God, man. Well, I'm still living. So clearly I must've gotten away with it, when I did do it. But I don't think it's time to blow my cover now.

I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take full responsibility for myself and my actions. I wouldn't pawn this off on anybody. I'm sorry it happened. And I hurt people.

Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.

What you try to bury just ends up burying you.

You can't accuse me of anything I haven't already confessed to.

Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness in us?

I certainly have been guilty of trying to sweep things under the carpet.

I've done a lot of things in my life that I'm not proud of.

I personally think that if you deny something or if you hide something you're inadvertently admitting it's wrong.

My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark glasses and head for the next county, hoping nobody notices I've been in the neighborhood.

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.

What are you hiding? No one ever asks that.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

He who has regrets cannot look at himself in the mirror.

Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks.

The first day I walked into prison, and he slammed that door, I knew the magnitude of the decision that I made, and the poor judgment, and what I allowed to happen to the animals. And, you know, it's no way of explaining the hurt and the guilt that I felt. And that was the reason I cried so many nights.

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

I've told lots of lies in my life. I try not to lie, but I still do. It's very difficult to get to 37 and not be ashamed of something you've done. But I think your life is easier, ultimately, if you're honest.

Hard though it may be to accept, remember that guilt is sometimes a friendly internal voice reminding you that you're messing up.

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.

I lied for years and years. And the thing about lies and secrets is that they eat you alive from the inside. I would not wish that pain on anyone.

Guilt only dreads Liberty of Speech, which drags it out of its lurking Holes, and exposes its Deformity and Horror to Day-light.

Shameful.

I broke my uncle's toy as a kid and never told him about it.

I act the way I act and I'm not proud of it.