#embarrassing

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

— Jurgen Habermas

#channels #dangers #embarrassing #nation #perhaps

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

— Katharine Hepburn

#business #egocentric #embarrassing #go #into

One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed. ↗

— Stephen King

#dress-up #embarrassing #style #vocabulary #writing

Well, it's embarrassing to be a star. ↗

— Christian Bale

#star #well

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

— Julie Andrews

#director #embarrassing #love #love scene #particularly

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

#certain #character #else #embarrassing #embarrassment

When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid things, but I would make these dumb comedy tapes. I would often make prank phone calls, but I would also do it with friends. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#among #calls #comedy #dumb #embarrassing

The trouble with talking about acting is that it's like sex. It's enormously fun to do but just dreadfully embarrassing when you have to talk about it. ↗

— Paul Bettany

#acting #dreadfully #embarrassing #enormously #fun

I don't know any jokes, which is embarrassing. I wish I did. ↗

— Marty Feldman

#did #embarrassing #i #i wish #jokes

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large. ↗

— Henry Ford

#absolutely #business #devoted #embarrassingly #large