Self-Embarrassment Quotes

There is no embarrassment quite like the embarrassment of listening to a person for whom one has a regard making a fool of himself.

I've always made a fool out of myself.

I don't get the jitters and I don't get nervous, because I build that comfort on set for myself. Sometimes if I'm gonna do something really crazy, it helps me to yell or look like an idiot on set, so that when I'm about to do a scene, I've already embarrassed myself. I find ways to work around getting the jitters.

As a filmmaker, you put the film out there, and you just want it to be okay. You don't want to let people down; you don't want to embarrass yourself.

At least it's really entertaining when I embarrass myself.

Sometimes you panic and find yourself emitting remarks so profoundly inane that you would be embarrassed to say them to your dog. Your dog would look at you and think to itself, 'I may lick myself in public, but I'd never say anything as stupid as that.'

I've been embarrassing myself publicly for over 20 years. Why should I stop now?

Try not to worry about embarrassing yourself. That's a lifetime's task.

You can't be afraid to embarrass yourself sometimes.

I was embarrassed when a businessman friend asked, 'What's the yearly budget of your talk show? What's the per-episode budget?' And I looked at him with these blank, typical-model eyes and said, 'I don't know.' I call myself a businesswoman, and I don't know that?

I am such a sillybilly that I embarrass myself all the time.

I don't do nothin' unless I risk humiliating myself and really embarrassing myself. When I have that hanging over my head, it allows me to rise to the occasion.