Humiliated Quotes

Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt.

I stand up for what I believe. I don`t know if it`s always paid off for me, because I`ve been ridiculed and humiliated.

I started watching reality shows and being horrified at people signing up to be humiliated in front of the entire country. I saw one show, "The Amazing Race" (2001), in which people were eating spicy soup and vomiting and crying. Why would you do that? Also, I was fascinated by these actors and actresses who would sign up to be followed around by cameras in their life. You become a celebrity, not because of your work or what you do, but because you have no privacy. I`ve been careful to keep my life separate because it`s important to me to have privacy and for my life not to be a marketing device for a movie or a TV show. It`s worth more than that. I`m worth more than that.

Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected.

I was one of those people who was literally famous for doing nothing . . . I was always a part of the club scene in New York and eventually was able to produce my own musical about AIDS ("Positive Me") because of the audience and press I received as a club kid. Eventually I was called in to screen test for this MTV show because word was out I was this neat club kid turned playwright. I got the job and basically was humiliated on the air every day. I`m an actor, not a hostess. It was horrifying. I had all this baby fat, so I was just HUGE on camera . . . I still can`t watch one frame of the show. Then I got all this hate mail because I couldn`t play the part right . . . Luckily the show got canceled after seven months. I was so relieved.

It`s difficult for me to imagine Justin as a real person. He`s so thoroughly a character created for serial television that his behavior, though dramatically justified on Queer as Folk, would register as childish, self-obsessed and absurd if it were displaced into the reality I`m familiar with. How could I be friends with someone who has nervous breakdowns at spilled marinara sauce, assaults high school enemies with small firearms, and has been systematically and repeatedly betrayed, lied to, condescended to, and humiliated by his boyfriend for four years? Were I placed into the TV wonderland of Queer as Folk, on the other hand, Justin and I would f**k once, realize we were twins separated at birth, and try to get our parents back together using elaborately quirky schemes. I`d most like to tell Justin to calm down. Maybe get him into a yoga class.

I have sworn to only live free. Even if I find bitter the taste of death, I don`t want to die humiliated or deceived.

The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it`s a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil.

I`m really worried. There are people in my country who believe I humiliated Zimbabweans by showing my t*ts on telly,

Today Georgia is split and humiliated.

The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.

Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall.

When a person is humiliated, when his rights are being violated, and he does not have the proper education, naturally he gravitates toward terrorism.

You`ve humiliated all suite attendants with your performance tonight!