Jean de La Fontaine Quotes

This is not to say that I wasn't completely repulsed. I mean, I wasn't exactly proud that my stepbrother was in there tongue wrestling with the second stupidest person in our class, after himself.

You know when you tell a self-deprecating story at a dinner party, everyone's laughing along with you? But then when someone else repeats that same story at another dinner party you feel they're all laughing at you?

I stood on Susan Boone's front porch, feeling lame. But then, since I've pretty much felt lame my entire life, this was no big surprise. On the other hand, usually I felt lame for no particular reason. This time I really had a reason to feel lame.

I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule.

I have this idiot name tag which says 'controversial.'

I never want to be seen in my boxer shorts ever again.

The game embarrasses you until you feel inadequate.

When he said we were trying to make a fool of him, I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.

Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy.

The only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping and showing off his shortcomings.

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

When improv is bad, it's excruciating to watch, and to be involved with it is a unique type of torture.

Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.

Embarrassment and awkward situations are not foreign things to me.

I had no money to buy clothes, and people would run away when I walked down the street. It was a right laugh.

I don't want to end up being some joke on a bad TV series.

I am a walking joke.

Like everyone else, I can barely take the waves of embarrassment that come with watching someone do something so badly. Roseanne Barr singing the national anthem, Sofia Coppola acting in 'The Godfather: Part III,' Sarah Palin talking about Russia - they all create the same level of eyeball-squinching discomfort.

I did ride a bike on the streets of Manhattan with four-and-a-half inch heels. Is that fun... or a death wish? You tell me. I was in severe pain, and everyone was laughing at me. That was great. I like when people laugh at me when I'm in pain.

It is not easy when people laugh at you.

15 people in a room looking at you with no clothes on - that's a little weird.

I don't think I'm that knowledgeable. I don't think I am that good looking even. I feel embarrassed when people say these things to me.

Of course, after like, three or four years of being called a loser and putting on bad suits and having the sweat and all that stuff put on me, it does start to get to you after a while.

I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.

I know how much embarrassment hurts, and I love it as a theme because you can keep digging a hole. It's just an endless well, embarrassment.