Top 70 Cringe Quotes

I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone’s immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit.

There is too much acceptance of people saying, ‘I am a math person, or I am an artsy person.’ It makes me cringe.

I’m sick of watching ‘Blue Lives Matter’ supporters idly stand by any police officer simply because he wears blue, ignoring the facts that should make them cringe in disbelief and horror. Police brutality is systemic, not anecdotal.

The smartest people I know have that extra edge. The risk is always there that you’ll look terribly undignified and slobbering, and inside I cringe about that, but I should be more aggressive.

I hear luxury brand names, I cringe.

Everyone needs an escape, whether that is through music or humor. My personal escape is through both of those things so I thought why not combine them? But not in a cringe way, I don’t want to make parody songs. I just want my music to have a humorous edge to it.

Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I’d cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine.

I think I’m writing for an intelligent stranger – you know, in my mind I can’t remember who coined that phrase first. I don’t want to write anything that makes me cringe, first of all. I cringe a lot – mostly when I hear popular music.

When I look at pictures when I was younger, I do the quintessential cringe.

I believed that the donor class would cringe at the vast threat Donald Trump poses to the entire Republican Party, its brand, its prospects for expansion, and the nation.

I hope I’ve made a good film. And before you ask, a good film is one that I’d see three years from now and not cringe.

I was 23 when I wrote ‘Neighbors,’ and I definitely look back at it now and cringe a little bit. I was trying to understand what drama was.

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 really cringe at the sight of pattypan squash. So pretty and cute and having no taste or exciting texture. Dull.

There’s something about each of my books that I’m really proud of, and there’s something about each of my books that I cringe over.

What I learned on ‘To Die For,’ I learned over the years that followed, when some memory from the shoot would bubble up to the surface of my mind, and I could see it from a new perspective. I would usually cringe when that happened.

I used to look so immature, like a young man without self-confidence. There was one particular light blue, shiny cape outfit I wore that still makes me cringe.

Whenever I hear a baby cry, I cringe.

I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do. I never wanted to look at character I’ve done and cringe.

I used to be mouthy. It was all to do with being a northerner and from Manchester, which was suddenly a big deal when I was in my 20s. When I read some of the interviews I did back then, I cringe.

I feel cheesy when I see ‘Silver Spoons.’ Some of it was funny, but some of it was just cheese! My kids love it, but I look at it and cringe.

Five years from now I’m probably going to look back on the things I’m doing and cringe.

I used to look back at pictures and cringe but actually I’m quite proud that I’ve had fun with fashion and don’t always look perfect. The only regret I have is when I look at something I wore when I was very young and it obviously looks like it belonged to someone else.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

I guess I cringe when the discussion leads to, rather than books and sentences and characters and the stuff that writers are supposed to be concerned with, how to have an online presence and how many followers you have on Twitter. That stuff always makes me uncomfortable.

Singing is all about certain inflection on certain lines. I used to listen to tapes of everybody from Michael Jackson and Prince to Earth, Wind and Fire. They would have different vocal inflections. If the line insinuated pain, they would cringe on some lines.

I try to live my life free of regrets, but I do have one style regret that makes me laugh and cringe at the same time. Mum used to dress my brother and me in bright neon bike pants and big baggy t-shirts that were so long you could barely see our bike pants.

When I first met Clint Eastwood, I bobbed him a curtsy. I still cringe about that to this day.

I cringe when critics say I’m a master of the popular novel. What’s an unpopular novel?

You can’t knock somebody for how they got into the business. I’m sure I’m gonna look back at ‘Roswell’ and some of my first movies and I’m gonna cringe.

I hate eating food on camera – I always cringe afterwards!

I watch ‘The Great British Bake Off’ in the way I used to watch people kiss on TV in front of my parents when I was young. Cringe.

‘Bridget Jones’ is meant to be a funny night out, but with emotional truth. I wanted to make it a classic that you can pick up in 10 years and not cringe over.

The reality is almost everything I do I cringe about later.

I often don’t see what I’ve done, or I cringe when I watch myself.

I cringe inside when anybody gives me something. I don’t know why. I just get embarrassed.

With the social media phenomenon, where people’s opinions inform so much of what we do with our lives, where the number of ‘likes’ decides what we should program, I cringe.

As the son of a Cuban refugee and cousin and nephew to many Cubans on the island, I cringe when Americans visit Cuba for a fun island vacation.

I was terrified about people knowing I was gay. I’d cringe inside at the idea that they’d be talking behind my back.

I confess I sometimes sneak a peek at ‘The Big Bang Theory.’ I chuckle at their antics. But I cringe when they portray physicists as clueless nerds who are doormats when it comes to picking up women.

Yeah, I know, any time you hear an actor say, ‘I do music’, you cringe. But I want to be gradual with my music. I want to earn my stripes.

Not all cultural borrowing is a form of social violence: some of it is just cringe.

I say really stupid things sometimes. When I go back and watch some of my old interviews from when I was younger, I just cringe.

Usually, watching yourself is pretty awful. People think we all love watching our own films. We don’t. We cringe away from it.

I sort of cringe when I hear myself say the word ‘work.’ Getting to do something you love to do never really feels like work.

When I look back at the way that I was in that documentary I cringe.

I think when you host a radio show, just like Jon Stewart hosts a show, I think sometimes I bring up stuff… that makes people cringe.

I get embarrassed saying what I do. If you’re chatting to a cabbie, and they don’t know you’re an actor, I cringe because it’s always coupled with the inevitable, ‘So, what have I seen you in?’ And you’re left reciting your CV.

Being a YouTuber, I agree that YouTube’s content is much more superior than TikTok. If people say TikTok has cringe content, YouTube also does. But content is subjective.

The best part is, I can speak Hindi fluently. Earlier, I would cringe at the idea of delivering even a one-line dialogue in the language, but now, I can mouth a five-page monologue without blinking. My diction has improved, which has enhanced my performance.

I suppose I sometimes used to act like I wasn’t a human being… Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe.

I don’t really cringe over any of my albums.

My dad likes to recite the story of ‘Pablo the Donkey’ before dinner to teach us the real meaning of Christmas. Every year, it’s the same; every year, we cringe!

There have been scenes and sequences I’ve done that I watch back now and cringe and think I dealt with that in completely the wrong way. Sometimes I’m too emotional – too invested, in that sense – but you learn, and then you don’t do it again.

I can’t stand to see myself act. It just makes me cringe.

Watching yourself on screen is always a little weird, but I didn’t cringe when I saw myself on ‘The Hour.’ It actually exceeded my expectations; every shot looks like a vintage postcard and even my most brutally honest friends have said they think it’s good.

When I read about young designers selling 51 percent of their company to someone else, I cringe. I want to say, ‘Don’t do it – call me first.’

It’s quite hard not to cringe at your own music; you’re always a bit annoyed at some parts of it.

The word ‘theatrical’ makes me cringe, because it suggests a performance is staged, put on, rehearsed. And while all this is true for an opera, I believe the act of singing and performing should always be honest, raw, guttural.

I literally cringe every time I see someone trying to trash talk. Some people just don’t have it and they try, and I find that funny.