Embarrassing Quotes

• It's pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven't done much and are a celebrity.

  Nastassja Kinski

  Done, Pleasant, Havens

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• If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing.

  Julie Andrews

  Directors, Scene, Can Do

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• To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.

  Dave Barry

  Inspirational, Funny, Teenage

  Dave Barry (2013). “My Teenage Son's Goal in Life Is to Make Me Feel 3,500 Years Old: and Other Thoughts on Parenting from Dave Barry”, p.73, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Egocentric, Profession

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• I always find it kind of embarrassing, kind of funny, and kind of exciting. In New York I'm recognized a lot, although nobody says anything. You know, they stare at you just a second too long. But in Paris it's not as commonplace to be recognized.

  Marc Jacobs

  New York, Paris, Long

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• I used to make fun of my friends who had BlackBerries. And I know that the expression CrackBerry has been going around, but now I fully understand it. I'm actually addicted to a piece of machinery, and that's really embarrassing

  John Krasinski

  Fun, Expression, Pieces

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• It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'

  Aldous Huxley

  Peace, Kindness, Advice

  "Aldous Huxley - A Tribute" by Huston Smith, The Psychedelic Review, Volume 1, No. 3, Aldous Huxley Memorial Issue, pp. 264-265, 1964.

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• It is the answers, not the questions, that are embarrassing.

  Helen Suzman

  Embarrassing Questions, Answers

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• Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.

  Andy Warhol

  Death, Dying, Details

  Andy Warhol (1985). “America”, Harpercollins Childrens Books

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• I got caught kissing. Like by my parents. It was so horrible. It's so embarrassing, I'm blushing.

  Katie Holmes

  Kissing, Parent, Embarrassment

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• Actually, I find it embarrassing being a pop star. I prefer it when people just treat me like anybody else, although occasionally there is a side of me, which is indulgent and I expect certain things because of my position. It's one of the perks.

  Michael Hutchence

  Stars, People, Sides

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• But I always reassure them that as far as my contractual rights can go, I will protect them and make sure that they have approval over every bit of it so that they know I won't show something that's embarrassing.

  Jay Roach

  Rights, Appreciate, Approval

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What's really sad is that a lot of very talented people are being forced to do things that are very embarrassing and I don't intend to be one of them.

  Boy George

  People, Being Sad, Really Sad

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• Basically, my life is so boring, it's embarrassing.

  Hugh Grant

  Life Is, Boring, So Boring

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Somebody who never got over the embarrassing fact that he was born in bed with a lady.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Bed, Facts, Born

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• One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I'm in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me.

  Hugh Laurie

  Jobs, Children, Goal

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• God, George Bush makes me want to slash my wrists. He's so embarrassing I have to leave the room when he's on the news. What a monkey.

  Margot Kidder

  News, Want, Monkeys

  "No kidding". Interview with Chris Roberts, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2005.

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• One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of the Christian faith was that not one of the first six Presidents of the United States was an orthodox Christian.

  Mortimer Adler

  Christian, Champion, President

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• But I learned that there's a certain character that can be built from embarrassing yourself endlessly. If you can sit happy with embarrassment, there's not much else that can really get to ya.

  Christian Bale

  Character, Embarrassment, Certain

  "Christian Bale May Kill Someone Yet". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. November 15, 2010.

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• On planes I always cry. Something about altitude, the lack of oxygen and the bad movies. I cried over a St. Bernard movie once on a plane. That was really embarrassing.

  Michael Stipe

  Movie, Oxygen, Cry

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• Start in a small TV station so you can make all of your embarrassing mistakes early and in front of fewer people!

  Diane Sawyer

  Mistake, People, Literature

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• It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves out as experts in other fields.

  David Douglass

  Experts, Use, Fields

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• My parents are older, and they lead a somewhat sheltered life. It was difficult to talk with them about things that were embarrassing to me, and that I had never spoken to them about

  Anita Hill

  Parent, Difficult, Sheltered Lives

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• I knew that people were going to talk about it, I knew it was embarrassing, and I knew it was a big deal. But did I think that it was going to be this thing that followed me for, you know, the next years to come? I guarantee you, 25 years from now, I'll be known as the girl that lip synced on 'SNL.' But, you know, it was a weird thing. Not fun.

  Ashlee Simpson

  Girl, Fun, Thinking

  "CNN Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. October 22, 2005.

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• A threatened nation can react to uncertain dangers solely through administrative channels, to the truly embarrassing situation of perhaps overreacting

  Jurgen Habermas

  Danger, Uncertain, Situation

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