“The pressure is really what makes you work. The fear and the embarrass...” — Esther Povitsky Quote

“The pressure is really what makes you work. The fear and the embarrassment.”

“As far as having a breakthrough moment, I really don't think that way. If you think you're going to break out or break through, you never will. It's been a slow and steady climb, and I'm happy with that.”

“I didn't have a plan B. I didn't have anywhere else to turn but comedy, so I had to stick with it.”

“I was hanging around the hot girls once and after the fourth time they heard me make some kind of self-deprecating reference about myself, they were like, 'Do you ever notice none of us call ourselves ugly or say anything bad about ourselves? Like, why would you even put that idea in someone's head?'”

“I always wanted to act and I always wanted to work in comedy.”

“If people think skin care and makeup are lame, I can't get mad at them. That's fine. I grew up loving Britney Spears and getting taunted at school for it, so I know how to shoulder being uncool for liking the cool, mainstream thing.”

“Black people have, like, this thing, and I have it, we all have it, we have this kind of embarrassment. Where we don't like white people to find out our little insecurities and out little quirks. We don't really like that that much. It's kind of, we're like, 'Don't let them know - that ours; that's for us.'”

“Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren't completely embarassed yet, but you glimpse tomorrow's embarrassment?”

“I have to learn to ignore my feelings. Not just the feeling of hunger and the feeling of full, but the feeling of embarrassment, too. I have to remember that this is only weird if I make it weird.”

“Science has become politicized, and that's an embarrassment.”

“I had a lot of failed relationships, a lot of unhappiness, a lot of shame and embarrassment, bad self-image stuff.”

“I've generally got low levels of embarrassment.”