I always always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play on Broadway and was so broke that when I got a mini-series I had to take it and was so ashamed because I was such a snob.

I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.

It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.

There was a point - when I was a kid - where I said I wanted to be like Luke Skywalker with blond hair and blue eyes. My mom right there told me to never be ashamed of who I am.

Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.

I'm 0 for 3 with marriage - the scoreboard doesn't lie never has. So what we all have is a marriage of the heart. To sully or contaminate or radically disrespect this union with a shameful contract is something that I will leave to the amateurs and the Bible grippers.

And I ask why am I black they say I was born in sin and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

An intelligent person is never afraid or ashamed to find errors in his understanding of things.