Cringe Quotes

I cringe when I watch myself on TV.

I don't want to see old people doing rap or rock and roll. It makes me cringe.

Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.

I don't cringe when I think of doing old material. A lot of the people have been with me through the years.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never quite the truth and who knows why someone is some way.

I don't really cringe over any of my albums.

I honestly have no interest in celebrity whatsoever. If anything, I always cringe at it because it takes away from what I am, which is an actor who wants to be better and do better things.

When I look at pictures when I was younger, I do the quintessential cringe.

I would hope that people didn't think I was anything like Joan! It's very hard for me because Joan says such cruel things all the time. It sort of makes me cringe every time I read them because I think, 'Who could be so horrible?' To be able to deliver those lines and do them with a coolness, yet still make her likable, is a bit of a challenge.

I can't stand to see myself act. It just makes me cringe.

When I look back at the way that I was in that documentary I cringe.

I used to look back at pictures and cringe but actually I'm quite proud that I've had fun with fashion and don't always look perfect. The only regret I have is when I look at something I wore when I was very young and it obviously looks like it belonged to someone else.

I suppose I sometimes used to act like I wasn't a human being... Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe.

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.

Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine.

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.

I have a hard time watching the shows now. It is like opening up a yearbook when you were in junior high. I think everybody looks back at their photos and cringe, and I get to experience it with everybody else in the world looking at mine.

I never thought for a second that anything I ever did was going to make someone cringe. That never occurred to me.

Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.

I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?

You can't knock somebody for how they got into the business. I'm sure I'm gonna look back at 'Roswell' and some of my first movies and I'm gonna cringe.