Top 325 Embarrassed Quotes

As a player, I never, never feared getting hurt, but I feared being embarrassed.

I have big friends who won’t go swimming because they’re too embarrassed about it. I feel that’s such a shame, because actually people should be encouraging fat people who are exercising to do it, not pointing and laughing.

Some people play very, very well just so they won’t get embarrassed.

I had been a Maoist, and then when the Gang of Four was overthrown, I was completely distraught. I was bedridden for three weeks; it was a very painful experience for me. Not only because I had been wrong, but because I felt really embarrassed that I had been lecturing and pontificating with such self-confidence.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

My parents’ generation didn’t have any understanding of psychology or emotion or individual temperament. In fact, they were slightly embarrassed by all those words.

I was embarrassed about modeling. When you’re at school and you’re modeling, it sounds very glamorous, but I didn’t want to do things that no one else was doing. I didn’t want to be the odd one out. I wanted to be part of the gang.

If someone put a camera in my face now, when I am in student mode, I would get embarrassed, but when I am modelling, I play characters.

There was a stage when I was a little embarrassed about my Asian upbringing.

People would look at me weird. You know, like, ‘Why is this guy’s hands always in his pockets?’ But I was embarrassed by the size of my hands.

I’m kind of embarrassed by how quickly I adjusted to L.A. I really love it. It’s so pleasant.

I was always embarrassed because my dad wore a suit and my mother wore flat pumps and a cozy jumper while my friends’ parents were punks or hippies.

It looks like I’m just gonna keep getting really, really happy and sad and embarrassed and excited and disappointed for the rest of my life, so let’s just do that.

It is so funny because I was always embarrassed because I never had formal training in acting.

I get embarrassed on the red carpet at awards ceremonies. The whole celebrity thing is embarrassing.

In Long Island, people care about how much money you have. Even I did when I was growing up. I never wanted kids to see my mom’s house because I was embarrassed that they’d tell everyone, ‘Oh, Madison’s mom is poor!’ And she was definitely far from poor.

I hate this quality, but I can go to dark levels when we lose. It’s not a panic attack, but there’s anxiety. I’m inconsolable. I’m a train wreck. I’m being myself. Then I get this crazy, intense focus, where I get desperate not to be embarrassed again. That dark spot is what I tap into. Creativity comes from there.

A lot of older parents worry about being older parents. I hear people say, ‘I don’t want to be too old to play baseball with my son.’ They worry that their kids will be embarrassed by their parents’ age.

People are embarrassed by disco, but I love it.

I meet a lot of people who are awkward around me now. I was always embarrassed about that; the more attention I got, the less I wanted it and the more it would manifest in a physical way and I would be hunched over about it. I’m just starting to realise now that it’s not my problem, it’s somebody else’s problem.

After the crash happened, I was so humiliated and embarrassed. I thought of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, that they must hate me.

I didn’t even listen to any music until I was 19, really. I just wanted to be famous. But I didn’t say it to anyone because I was really embarrassed at the thought.

I’m not embarrassed about how we recruit, how we treat kids, and how we coach them.

Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty… embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them.

I would be embarrassed to tell you how many folks ran saying that they weren’t going to spend a bunch of money, they weren’t going to raise the debt ceiling, and then they went to Washington, D.C., and did exactly that.

I gave the couple a hint of a design that would work great with the bones of their home. They weren’t ready for it, and they embarrassed themselves and that’s too bad.

I think when I first started cycling, it wasn’t that popular with kids. I felt almost embarrassed going down the road on my road bike; I didn’t want my friends to see me because it was embarrassing.

A lot can change because you are embarrassed by something.

I feel embarrassed at times when I come off the pitch because we are losing games and not scoring goals and conceding goals. It’s not nice.

I pretend that I was never in the movies. The only job I had before was selling prawns door to door. That’s what I tell myself. My kids have never seen my films. I’m too embarrassed to show them.

I’ve never seen ‘Gone with the Wind.’ I don’t know if that’s something to be embarrassed about, but I know that I should have seen that movie by now.

Things change when you get to 40. I’m embarrassed even that I’m going through it. In a very morbid way, at 40 you become aware of how long you’ve been on Earth and you start to question what you’re going to use the remaining time doing.

A fundamental lesson on being fired: Never lie about it. People will know what you’re saying is a cover-up for how you really feel – embarrassed, discouraged, and afraid.

When the ‘godfather of punk’ thing started floatin’ around, it was, I was really, really embarrassed. I thought I should have a great, big rig and a cape and everything, and it was very embarrassing. And then after a while, you learn that if people call you anything, this is a great gift.

Sure, I’ve done movies in which I was embarrassed by my performance, or might not have cared for a co-star. Then I’d have to tell lies, like, ‘Oh, we love each other; everything was perfect!’

I was in a steak house once, and someone proposed. I was so embarrassed. The woman started crying, and I thought, ‘She was just proposed to in a steak house – I’d be crying, too.’

My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.

The burden of poverty isn’t just that you don’t always have the things you need, it’s the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you’d do anything to lift that burden.

I got suspended from school once, and my dad came to the school and whooped me in front of everyone. I didn’t want that to happen again, didn’t want to be embarrassed like that. The guys that I ran with, they respected that and respected my dad too.

I’ve had some rank auditions where I embarrassed myself to new heights, which is hard for me to do. I was never good at auditioning. There are a number of actors over the years come up the ranks who are horrific at auditioning.

It’s hard for me to get embarrassed, but the things that do embarrass me would be if anybody ever heard my wife and I talking in our robust, made-up language.

If you’re too embarrassed and want to hide behind your computer screen, that’s what this is for. It’s about building confidence and that’s what U by Kotex does. Girls owning their bodies and health.

It was part of the reason I almost didn’t go public with my diagnosis – I was embarrassed. I felt, ‘Oh, I’ve always talked about exercising. And I got cancer.’ And then I realized it’s a great example of showing that cancer can hit anyone at any time.

I have my cards read every time I pass a tarot-reader booth. I would be so embarrassed to have one of those 900 numbers appear on my phone bill, because I don’t know how I would explain it to my business manager. It would almost be like saying, ‘Okay, I’m white trash.’

When people hear that I’m a neuroscientist, they ask me tough questions. ‘Will grandpa learn to walk again after his stroke?’ ‘How can my son overcome his dyslexia?’ ‘What could have caused my best friend to become schizophrenic?’ When I can’t give satisfying answers, they look disappointed – and I feel embarrassed.

When I had my first child, I was too embarrassed to tell a single soul that I wasn’t the over-the-moon, picture-perfect new mother I was supposed to be.

I wrote stories as a kid just for myself. One day, some of the kids in my class found some of my stories in my bag, and I was deeply embarrassed until I realised they enjoyed reading them.

I’m ashamed and embarrassed to say that I’ve read very little of David Foster Wallace’s work. It’s a huge gap in my education, one of many.

My first novel – the novel I wrote before ‘Midnight’s Children’ – feels, to me, now, very – I mean, I get embarrassed when I see people reading it. You know, there are some people who, bizarrely, like it. Which I’m, you know, I’m happy for.

What has happened at Guantanamo Bay… does not represent the will of the American people. I’m embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.

I’m not embarrassed that I’m a fan of Justin Bieber.

When people ask me really stupid questions or get it really wrong, I feel embarrassed for them. I don’t really feel angry at them.

I think there is a misconception that being open and honest and saying what it is you want is something we should be embarrassed about. But that’s just not me. I am a very honest person. I always tell somebody what I am looking for, and I don’t want people to waste my time, basically.