Spike Lee Quotes

I have nothing to be ashamed of. And I love to talk about the things that I am ashamed of.

I really don't feel that any of the pieces I wrote were confessions; there are no revelations about secrets in my life, and actually I have nothing to confess and I certainly do not ask for redemption and there is no reward for confessing that I expect.

We are as sick as our secrets, so I tell everything.

What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.

And in fact you're not like everyone else: you weren't ashamed just now to confess bad and even ridiculous things about yourself. Who would confess such things nowadays? No one, and people have even stopped feeling any need for self-judgment.

My whole act is confession.

You know the expression, 'You're only as sick as your secrets?' I believe that, and I think I try to have my work live by that to a degree.

I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.

Isn't it time you came out and told the world what you believe?

I've done a lot of bad things. Use your imagination.

You've got to make a decision when you write about your life, and I decided I was going to be honest, and some of those things will be embarrassing.

When you're talking about a really horrible personal thing that happened to you... and it doesn't get laughs... I feel really exposed and like I've overshared with some strangers.

Like most people, I shrink from exposing my innermost secrets and my most private and intimate actions.

Falling in front of an audience - that's, like, my biggest fear.

I do have a little bit of trouble with candor around the things that I used to do. I think it's probably just resultant of shame and embarrassment and not wanting to be defined by the life that I used to live.

I was vulnerable every day. Every night that I stepped on stage I was laying myself open.

I'd written personal essays before, but never on this scale -- never so often and with such, er, honesty. (If by honesty I mean slashing my wrists and hemorrhaging all over the computer screen).

It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish.

There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty.

It's so shameful of me: I like you.

Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot tolerate having words wrapped around it. What it craves is secrecy, silence, and judgment. If you stay quiet, you stay in a lot of self-judgment.

Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.

I have unclasp'd to thee the book even of my secret soul.

I've done some things I'm embarrassed about, and I like to tell people about them so that maybe they feel less embarrassed or alone when they do something they're unsure about.

Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.