Adam F. Goldberg Quotes

I never wanted to disappoint my family at all.

I promise not to become a source of shame for you.

I don't want to let any of my family down.

Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame.

I just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband's mother, I didn't feel so much worse about it than he does.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness in us?

One person's embarrassment is another person's accountability.

Sadly, we do a much better job of making people feel guilty than we do of delivering them from the guilt we create. We need to confess this and change our ways.

I think half of what a trainer does is make you feel shame if you don't show up.

I had a beautiful mother and a famous father, and I didn't know where I fit in.

We didn't do wrong things because we didn't want to embarrass our parents.

My mother smokes me out. We'll get these long periods of me thinking I'm too busy to call her up or e-mail her, and she'll send me something. My mom's a real whiner. I love her to death, but she always sends me these 'woe is me' things. I think she might be Jewish. I'm not sure. She's Baptist-Jewish, which is a double whammy.

The only reason I am living with my shame is to protect the Emperor from all responsibility.

I'm guilty for a lot of things.

All the time, there was the weight of my community's expectations on my shoulders.

My mother cried when I told her I really didn't want to go to West Point. So I went.

It's very hard to shame people in Hollywood into anything because they don't often feel that kind of shame.

People tend to discuss things like relationships with family and friends, and the fact that I'm the only breadwinner in the family. And honestly, I cashed in on it.

I got married only because I was pregnant. Simple as that. I am a very traditional girl and was horrified at the thought of having a child out of wedlock. I didn't want a child of mine to be different or have fingers pointed at.

I was raised with a sense of duty, obedience and guilt.

He confesses his crime who flees the tribunal.

I've always been a magnet for guilt.

That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

You can't accuse me of anything I haven't already confessed to.