I was a wallflower when I was younger, and at a young age, I was too embarrassed. So I didn’t start dancing until around 20, and obviously when you’re in a boy band, you kinda have to.
I think we’re going to be very embarrassed in a few years when we see a lot more women film-makers. People will look back and ask, ‘How did it take so long for you to figure this out?’
I was always a little embarrassed when there was an act on television that requires a great deal of skill but is a little goofy, and the host comes over and acts like the person doing this skill is some sort of fool for having learned to do something that’s very, very difficult.
When it was time for parent-teacher conferences, I remember that I was always embarrassed about what my parents would hear about me!
When I first started writing songs, I was almost quite embarrassed that I couldn’t read music and I still to this day don’t really know what chords I’m playing, I don’t know the name of them.
I’ve never had a crazy online relationship that’s left me vulnerable and embarrassed and humiliated.
I’m accountable to my God, and I haven’t done anything I’m embarrassed of.
I was so embarrassed about mispronouncing words. I just knew how to smile.
In the beginning, I was actually embarrassed to admit that I wanted to be an actor.
We met Ben Mendelsohn, who had acted with Ryan Gosling in ‘A Place Beyond the Pines,’ and that’s the first place where we’d seen him. And we’re embarrassed to say that we didn’t know that he was a famous Australian actor at the time that we saw it.
I’m embarrassed to reveal that I never went to CBGB’s in the ’80s. I was never cool enough to be a punk, and I wouldn’t have had the stamina, or the discipline, for straight-edge.
When I went into GM there was a lack of morale. The company had gone bankrupt and the people who worked there were embarrassed. Underneath all of, though, there was a will to show what they were capable of, but nobody knew exactly what to do.
No one would feel embarrassed about seeking help for a child if they broke their arm – and we really should be equally ready to support a child coping with emotional difficulties.
When they meet a stand-up comic, people sometimes remark: ‘That must be the hardest job in the world.’ Among comedians, only Freddie Starr is not embarrassed and slightly appalled by this remark.
I’m most embarrassed at my art shows, even though I don’t show it.
I have written two nonfiction books, I’m embarrassed to say.
I’ve got five grandkids. They play baseball, they play football, they play basketball. I go to all the games. You always have that urge to say something when you’re watching them. But I’ve learned to keep it to myself. I’ve blurted out some things and embarrassed myself.
A lot of people think track, you just run, that’s all you do. No. There’s a lot of technical aspects to it as well. A sprinter is not just going to get out of the blocks and start running. You do that, you’re going to get embarrassed every time.
Once in high school, I completely over plucked my left eyebrow all the way up to where you’re not supposed to. I had no idea what I was doing and it looked terrible! My mom was like ‘What did you do to yourself?’ I was so embarrassed.
Alan Bennett is a very quirkish man. He laughs in a self-effacing way, which stops you getting close. If you embrace him, he’ll laugh in an embarrassed way and pull away, not to shrug you off, but because he finds it awkward.
All our careers end the same: Face down and embarrassed.
Don’t feel embarrassed if you’ve never heard of William Lane Craig. He parades himself as a philosopher, but none of the professors of philosophy whom I consulted had heard his name, either.
I cringe inside when anybody gives me something. I don’t know why. I just get embarrassed.
I’m not embarrassed to be in advertising. But I’m embarrassed by a lot of advertising.
I know that sometimes it happens that a novelist is embarrassed about their early works. For me, it’s the opposite: I believe ‘Durable Goods’ is the best thing I’ve written.
Now, there’s parts about Mormonism that I love and appreciate. And as far as things that I was embarrassed about, I just don’t feel it anymore.
I have to say that I am embarrassed about how emotional I am.
I struggled with kind of fighting with the inner illnesses within myself where my psychological madness and I have always kind of struggled with different disorders and mental things and so the biggest thing that I was kind of always ashamed of or being embarrassed of was kind of that.
At ‘SNL,’ we don’t have the luxury to perfect things. However a video turns out, that’s what we have to present. There’s a number of things that I’m super embarrassed by and wish didn’t air.
In real life, I feel tiny and quite embarrassed all the time. But when people come up to me in France and want to talk to Christine, it’s okay. It’s cool. Because they’re really talking about themselves, their own Christines.
I came to Los Angeles and did auditions for television. I made a terrible mess of most of them and I was quite intimidated. I felt very embarrassed and went back to London. I got British television jobs intermittently between the ages of 23 and 27, but it was very patchy.
I’m a bit embarrassed about how little I know about the First World War. I didn’t even know that tanks were used in it.
There are so many things we don’t know about because they don’t get spoken about, and people might be embarrassed to speak up or might be shamed into not speaking up.
I’m happy to do gay material, and I’m gay, and I’m not embarrassed about it, but it’s nice not being limited to only doing gay material.
Although I’m not actually embarrassed by this, I tend not to read books that have awesome movies made from them, regardless of how well or badly the movie represented the actual written story.
Some of the things I’ve done, like getting Justin Edinburgh sent off in the cup final by going down, I’m embarrassed – I cringe when I see all that.
I don’t get embarrassed.
I feel slightly embarrassed by being called ‘the godfather.’
Things that you might be embarrassed to tell a group about yourself – honestly, that’s probably what the majority of the group is experiencing are those things that you keep quiet in your heart.
I admire that Robin isn’t scared to show up every day, since he gets embarrassed every day.
What I’d really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie. I feel almost embarrassed revealing this, because the genre has been so degraded in the past twenty years that saying you like romantic comedies is essentially an admission of mild stupidity.
I first started reading about Barack and taking notes when he won the Iowa caucuses in January 2008 because I was embarrassed that, at that point, I knew virtually nothing about him.
Why would I be embarrassed about being Canadian? I’m very proud. We’re just the nicest people. Everyone likes us.
It’s very hard to tell an actor, ‘Stop acting.’ It’s easy to tell a non-actor, because they’re embarrassed when they act. They get ashamed when they do something cliche, whereas an actor is happy.
I always try to travel as light as possible. I feel really embarrassed having loads of luggage.
I don’t feel embarrassed by any of the music that I like. I think it’s all genuinely clever, good music.
It’s human nature to not say everything that’s on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We’re afraid of being embarrassed.
All our careers end the same: Face down and embarrassed.
You know when actors are very shy and self-effacing? Well, I really love it when people like my work, but I’m also really embarrassed about it. It’s strange. And a bit pathetic really.
If somebody’s doing something, and you’re laughing, and at the same time you’re so embarrassed for them, it’s my absolute kind of favorite type of laugh.
Don’t expect me to be some indie schmindie embarrassed about my success.
There’s a deli around the corner from my office where I’d get a bag of chips with my sandwich, and I was hiding them under my sandwich because I was embarrassed. When I had this epiphany that I was hiding the potato chips from myself, I realized there was an opportunity there.
I think what makes good children’s books is putting the same care and effort into it as if I was writing for adults. I don’t write anything – put anything in my books – that I’d be embarrassed to put in an adult book.
I’m always embarrassed when I’m asked about meaning, because it is what you make it. The meaning is yours, so it’s not about what I think. It’s for us all to reflect and change perspectives.
I was writing a book about sustainable energy, and a friend asked me, ‘Well, how much energy do you use at home?’ And I was embarrassed. I didn’t actually know.
I think it’s the human condition to be frequently embarrassed by your parents.
We know there is a very powerful fan base for Liverpool in Asia. We are not embarrassed to say we want to exploit that.
I take antidepressants, which I was embarrassed about for a long time, but it keeps me going.
Why is it trivia? People call it trivia because they know nothing and they are embarrassed about it.
