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Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine.
— Julie Christie
I often don't see what I've done, or I cringe when I watch myself.
— Peter Dinklage
I say really stupid things sometimes. When I go back and watch some of my old interviews from when I was younger, I just cringe.
— Michelle Pfeiffer
Maybe they notice me wincing whenever I hear them say it, but I don't know: there are all sorts of reasons I could be wincing. Life is a wince-a-thon.
— Frank Portman
When I look back at the way that I was in that documentary I cringe.
— Benjamin Cohen
The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I cringe inside when anybody gives me something. I don't know why. I just get embarrassed.
— Sarah Jessica Parker
Successful fiction does not need to be validated by 'real life'; I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a novel is 'real'.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you
— William Faulkner
I made some probably very cringe-worthy short films that shall hopefully never make the light of day.
— Steve Toltz
Every time I hear that word, I cringe. Fun! I think it's disgusting; it's just running around. It's not my idea of pleasure.
— Vivienne Westwood
The same amount of pride which makes a man treat haughtily his inferiors, makes him cringe servilely; to those above him.
— Jean De La Bruyere
There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over.
— Margaret Haddix
You make mistakes as a parent. Then you wish you hadn't said that, or you wish you hadn't told them how to dress. You cringe.
— Jennifer Connelly
I don't really cringe over any of my albums.
— Sheryl Crow
It is the sheer ugliness and banality of everyday life which turns my blood to ice and makes me cringe in terror.
— Jean Lorrain
Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way - pouty.
— Lana Del Rey
My past behaviour makes me cringe.
— Denise Van Outen
If I had a disability, I wouldn't cringe at the sight of those who used what I didn't have, but rather at those who had it and didn't use it.
— T.C. Slonaker
It's quite hard not to cringe at your own music; you're always a bit annoyed at some parts of it.
— Michael Kiwanuka
Braai Day is a slap in the face of our efforts to regain who we are. And should make any self respecting South African cringe.
— Simphiwe Dana
I don't cringe when I think of doing old material. A lot of the people have been with me through the years.
— Steve Forbert
There are a few rules in investigations, and one is to never cringe at the person's appearance that you're about to pump for info.
— Ruth Bainbridge
I've done a lot of things I cringe when I watch and some things I'm proud of ... Movies are strange. You have to be a little bit lucky with them.
— Christopher Walken
There's hardly anything I've ever done that's made me cringe; I've got pretty good pitch, for a start, so I'm not known for hitting bum notes.
— Robert Palmer
It took me 10 years to write a story that pleased me - that I could look at after it was published and not cringe.
— Ben Fountain
Were you even aware that one could rent clothes, Vasile? Does it not seem a bit ... cringe inducing?
— Beth Fantaskey
The politics of courtiers resemble their shadows; they cringe and turn with the sun of the day.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
— Irwin Shaw
Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.
— Fiona Apple
I feel cheesy when I see 'Silver Spoons.' Some of it was funny, but some of it was just cheese! My kids love it, but I look at it and cringe.
— Ricky Schroder
Glancing at the time on my phone, I cringe. Midnight. The witching hour. This was when Calease always came for me.
I hate midnight. — Erica Cameron
I hate midnight. — Erica Cameron
When I read about young designers selling 51 percent of their company to someone else, I cringe. I want to say, 'Don't do it - call me first.'
— Tom Ford
Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not.
— James Russell Lowell
Sometimes, I do have something to say, so I'll sit there and I'll write a song to someone - and then I just throw it away because it makes me cringe.
— Bradford Cox
I sort of cringe when I hear myself say the word 'work.' Getting to do something you love to do never really feels like work.
— Lyle Lovett
I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.
— Larry David
Everywhere the weak execrate the powerful, before whom they cringe; and the powerful beat them like sheep whose wool and flesh they sell.
— Voltaire
At times, my very own media makes me cringe, and occasionally out loud. By the way, nothing clears the head like an out-loud cringe.
— Dan Jenkins
I did not glow with the thrill of battle. Cringe, yes. Glow, no.
— Jennifer Estep
Usually, watching yourself is pretty awful. People think we all love watching our own films. We don't. We cringe away from it.
— Charlotte Rampling
For God was as large as a sunlamp and laughed his heat at us and therefore we did not cringe at the death hole.
— Anne Sexton
In terms of hardline right-wing people on television, there's some people that make me cringe when I change the channel.
— Chris Carmack
I cringe when I watch myself on TV.
— Peter Andre
Yeah, I know, any time you hear an actor say, 'I do music', you cringe. But I want to be gradual with my music. I want to earn my stripes.
— Idris Elba
Whether they soothe or snarl, cringe or strut, suicide notes do not seek to entertain. I
— Martin Amis
Most people cringe at the thought of a casserole.
— Marcus Samuelsson
Four-letter words have always offended me. I cringe at hearing them. Can't, don't, and won't are the worst.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit.
— Carly Rae Jepsen
He was sexual in a way that made women think of deeply repressed fantasies therapists and feminists alike would cringe to hear tell of.
— Karen Marie Moning