Quotes About Self Conscious

#1. I felt self-conscious going out in the street prior to ever even being in a movie. That's just me.

Jesse Eisenberg

#2. I wasn't athletic as a kid, and I was self-conscious about my body, but then in eighth grade I won a school contest, and the prize was a bunch of personal training sessions.

Matt McGorry

#3. People are self-conscious at first. But it gets better as we kind of dance with each other ... it's like a date, in a way. We get more comfortable together. The best pictures are usually the last ones.

Nicholas Nixon

#4. I think the best kind of comedy is the least self conscious. I think if you just sort of let the comedy happen without the elbow nudge, did you get it, did you get it. I love straight face comedy or subtle - relatively subtle comedy.

Betty White

#5. When they [breasts] are huge, you become very self-conscious ... I've learned something though, through my years of pondering and pontificating, and that is: men love them, and I love that.

Drew Barrymore

#6. If you're comfortable with someone, you feel creatively free. Whether it's a comedic scene or a dramatic one, you don't feel self-conscious because you feel safe with the people that you're around.

Jane Levy

#7. The only thing I can definitely say is that you cease to be self-conscious after you've had to kiss somebody on-camera with 30 people watching.

Anna Paquin

#8. Contemporary writers annoyed him, he found their worlds insular, their style too self-conscious and ironic. Theirs was not a literature that belonged to him.

Christos Tsiolkas

#9. I think my voice worked out fine, but it was a lot of work for me. And I was very self-conscious about it. I was a bit self-conscious about writing lyrics too.

Jerry Harrison

#10. I don't often see the movies I'm in; I'm usually disappointed in myself and it only serves to make me self-conscious.

Mary-Louise Parker

#11. Well, you know, it's a younger person, and it was maybe an effort to be a little more sincere and adult about the lyrics occasionally, which is a good thing. It's nice that it's not too self-conscious like some of our lyrics could be.

Stephen Malkmus

#12. Self-conscious, uncertain, I'm showered by the dust. But the spirit enters into me and I submit to trust.

Peter Gabriel

#13. To say a thing simply: I am my history, but the story of my life is always guarded, self-conscious. It is finally the only story we give to someone we love.

Maureen Howard

#14. Both men accepted that the nature of the request, its intimacy and self-conscious reflection on their friendship, had created, for the moment, an uncomfortable emotional proximity which was best dealt with by their parting without another word.

Ian McEwan

#15. I was always self-conscious about the fact that I didn't have as much comedy experience as other people at 'SNL,' and I kept thinking they were going to realize they'd made a mistake by hiring me.

Bill Hader

#16. I was self conscious and ill at ease most of the time, my health was at the breaking point, and I was thoroughly miserable.

Alcoholics Anonymous

#17. I enjoy doing scenes where I don't wear make-up and I can be raw. I like that. I feel like it's easier to act. When I have to have make-up on, I feel like I'm expected to look a certain way, and then it's harder to act because I'm more self-conscious.

Ivana Milicevic

#18. Home gigs can be hard because it's an odd collision. More than anything, I feel self-conscious when my family are in the audience. I'm doing this job which is not quite acting - part of it is me, part performance. You're presenting a cartoon of yourself to people who know you as a line-drawing.

Dylan Moran

#19. I'm always aware of being observed. Always self-conscious. I'm evidently living my life with stage fright.

Donna Cooner

#20. When I was younger, I didn't even know how to walk. I was so self-conscious.

Lil B

#21. You don't feel as self-conscious if your clothes fit.

Rachael Ray

#22. I don't feel like I'm self-conscious about what's next. I don't care. I know what it's like to be ignored, and I know what it's like not to be.

Matthew Specktor

#23. People are less self-conscious in the intimacy of family life and during the anxiety of a great sorrow. The dazzling varnish of anextreme politeness is then less in evidence, and the true qualities of the heart regain their proper proportions.

Stendhal

#24. I used to be self conscious about my height, but then I thought, fuck that, I'm Harry Potter.

Daniel Radcliffe

#25. What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms.

Ernest Becker

#26. To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious.

Mark Batterson

#27. I find actors a little bit too self-conscious.

Chris Lilley

#28. I'm at that age where I watch such things with two minds, one that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.

Alan Bradley

#29. A desirable advertisement will be reasonable, but never dull ... original, but never self-conscious ... imaginative, but never misleading.

Fairfax M. Cone

#30. Fashion designers only occasionally tread outside the realm of clothes as pure commodity. When they do, the results are often a muddled, self-conscious message.

Robin Givhan

#31. Although my mother didn't necessarily approve of teenage girls wearing heels, she made an exception for me when I was 14 because she didn't want me to be self-conscious about my height - or to slouch.

L'Wren Scott

#32. I wanted to protect the songs. I wanted to make sure I could write freely and not be self-conscious about it.

Alejandra Deheza

#33. I would be too self-conscious if I just thought of writing lyrics for a song. I have to trick myself into doing it.

Kim Gordon

#34. Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people's perception of the gospel.

Alan Hirsch

#35. I don't think my paintings are self-conscious but you feel the consciousness of them. Without them being self-conscious.

Julian Schnabel

#36. When you're making something, you're in a different state. You go into a deep level of concentration, to the point where you're not self-conscious anymore, it's just flowing out of you.

David Rakoff

#37. Everyone at school knew who my dad was. It made me a little self-conscious a little introverted because I had a lot of attention drawn towards me, but in a way I guess it gives you a little bit of a celebrity skin, even though I wasn't a celebrity.

James McCartney

#38. And it's so easy because you become so self-conscious and so intellectual and so analytical about it in the long run that you lose that wonderful sort of ego that you have that says, 'Oh, goddamn it, I don't care; I love it anyway; I'm going to do it!

David McCullough

#39. I threw my arms around him. "I yearn only for you."
Quinton gave a self-conscious shrug and an embarrassed laugh. "I feel the same way about you and I'm sorry I'm . . . being an ass. Also, I suspect you just wanted to use 'yearn' in a sentence.

Kat Richardson

#40. People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.

Robert Redford

#41. You're either sexy or you're not. I'm very self-conscious about my physiognomy.

Bobby Darin

#42. I always get self-conscious about what I look like in a film, but less so if I'm a character very far removed from who I am. Then I just worry about the performance, and that's equally an odd experience.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#43. For Arthur, who could usually contrive to feel self-conscious if left alone for long enough with a Swiss cheese plant, the moment was one of sustained revelation.

Douglas Adams

#44. Any attempts to feign normal social interactions were just depressing because it was so glaringly obvious that everyone I spoke to for the rest of my life would feel awkward and self-conscious around me, except maybe kids like Jackie who just didn't know any better.

John Green

#45. Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility ... Artists have had to become self-conscious aestheticians: continually challenging their means, their materials and methods.

Susan Sontag

#46. My nose is broken," I said. Damn that Dumbo. Made me self-conscious.
"My ankle's broken," he said.
"Then I'll come to you.

Rick Yancey

#47. I wear some of my stuff, but usually the less in-your-face designs. I get a little self conscious, there is a fine line between pride and ego.

Shepard Fairey

#48. There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them.

Peter Weir

#49. I've been on 'Days' since I was 16, and being surrounded by such thin, gorgeous actresses made me so insecure and self-conscious.

Alison Sweeney

#50. Self-conscious artiness is fatal, but it certainly would not hurt to study composition in general. Having a basic understanding of composition would help construct a better organized image.

Berenice Abbott

#51. I felt a little self-conscious walking the streets with a glowing broadsword, so I had a conversation with my weapon. (Because that wasn't crazy at all.)

Rick Riordan

#52. I'm a little self-conscious about my body. I love to wear hoodies because you can get cozy and eat some food and your belly doesn't show!

Jared Padalecki

#53. I definitely suffered from stage fright. I had to work really hard to come out of my shell. When I was little, I was very loud and loved performing in front of people. I was fearless. When I hit puberty, I became very shy and self-conscious.

Brianna Brown

#54. I wish I felt self-conscious about my hair, but truth be told, I look hella cute with psycho hair.

Tarryn Fisher

#55. People look at me as sort of a diplomat for Turkey, which by nature, I'm not; I don't want to be. It's again about that playfulness. Being Turkey's voice or representative is not playful, it's not childlike; it makes me self-conscious, kills the child in me.

Orhan Pamuk

#56. What actors are good at doing is walking into a situation that should make you incredibly self-conscious and frightened and doing it anyway. That's the gig, pretending that you are comfortable.

William H. Macy

#57. I never got picked on, but I never had a lot of friends. When I talked to my parents about it, they said, 'They're just jealous because you're beautiful and talented.' It was probably one of the worst things they could have told me, because I became self-conscious.

Teri Polo

#58. I was always a self-conscious person.

Elia Kazan

#59. Usually when I put my focus on the pacing, the plot, the specific characterizations, - it's ironic - but then I actually increase my chances of writing something that moves people because I haven't become too self-conscious of the goal.

Christopher Rice

#60. Western beauty is considered the dominant beauty in the world. Tall, blond, blue eyes. I always felt a little self-conscious because I wanted to be more Caucasian. I tried to get bigger eyes ... I would dress preppy.

Michelle Phan

#61. The problem is that if you're self-conscious about being a person on whom nothing is lost, isn't something lost - some kind of presence? You're distracted by trying to be totally, perfectly impressionable.

Ben Lerner

#62. Because it was the first time in my life that I gave myself permission to be me. I was still shy and self-conscious and terrified of people, but Jenkins had essentially freed me of the bonds of having to try to fit in.

Jenny Lawson

#63. Self-consciousness is, from a naturalistic point of view (in this case neurobiological), not more than a degree of sophistication of neural processes. The emergence of self-conscious states is not a drastic, extravagant, earth-shaking phenomenon.

Istvan Aranyosi

#64. What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whit-
man, for I walked down the sidestreets under the trees
with a headache self-conscious looking at the full moon.
In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images,
I went into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of
your enumerations!

Allen Ginsberg

#65. I don't want it to be all that self-conscious or artificial, but it really grows out of my having invented myself as a listener so that I could hear her voice.

Russell Banks

#66. I get kinda self-conscious. I don't want to know about my eyebrows. I'm born with them.

Michael Keaton

#67. To call either of us virgins would be ridiculous, yet emotionally that was just what we were. Fumbling in the dark and too eager, completely out of our depths and self-conscious, trying to impress and missing all the subtle nuances.

Sylvia Day

#68. Kids are naturally gifted at art from a very young age. The problem is when they get older and become self-conscious. The process should always be fun, though.

Damien Hirst

#69. For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It's impossible to do.

David Cronenberg

#70. It was his eyes, so challenging and with a piercing look about them. They were eyes that trusted in nothing and they made her uncomfortable around him, self-conscious.

Gemma Malley

#71. Jem's fears of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury. His left arm was somewhat shorter than his right;

Harper Lee

#72. I was horribly self-conscious; I wanted everybody to look at me and think me the most fascinating creature in the world, and yet I died a small hideous death if I saw even one person throw a casual glance at me.

Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher

#73. The less self-conscious you are about what you are about, the better in a way, that is to say technically. You have to get it in your blood, not in the head.

Flannery O'Connor

#74. I am self-conscious, and I'm aware of my body. But I struggle with America's limited idea of what perfection is.

Rene Russo

#75. I think most of us become self-critical as soon as we become self-conscious.

Ellen Goodman

#76. I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges.

Richard Russo

#77. I was a very undisciplined person but acting was something that actually motivated me to get up in the morning. I hadn't experienced that before, but it was something that really excited me. I think I could be quite self-conscious and it gave me a release.

Rufus Sewell

#78. I wasn't one to usually show off Lucy and Ethel because I was self-conscious of them, but money was money.

Mariana Zapata

#79. I realized that for my own part, I was much more likely to take risks, reach out to others, and expose myself to rejection and failure when I felt happy. When I felt unhappy, I felt defensive, touchy, and self-conscious.

Gretchen Rubin

#80. He sat beside her. "What sort of things did you dream of?"
"Oh, what most young girls do, I imagine. Fey tales. True love." She gave a small, self-conscious laugh. "You.

C.L. Wilson

#81. My memories of being nine or ten years old are especially vivid, since this is the time when you have a real sense of who you are - before the self-conscious preteen years start.

Marissa Moss

#82. The tragedy of her death was not that it made one, now and then and very intensely, unhappy. It was that it made her unreal; and us solemn, and self-conscious. We were made to act parts that we did not feel; to fumble for words that we did not know. It obscured, it dulled.

Virginia Woolf

#83. Strangers still leave me self-conscious.

Alan Ladd

#84. My heart was closed. Cold.
I was self-conscious and cynical.

Tablo

#85. I used to sketch - that's the way I thought out loud. Then they made a book of my sketches, and I got self-conscious, so now I don't do it much.

Frank Gehry

#86. I believe in love but the kind which doesn't exist, replied Nandini, only to become extremely self-conscious.

Varsha Dixit

#87. If you're familiar enough with my body of work, my voice is a familiar totem, in a sense. I guess I have something characteristic in the way that I sing, although I'm not very personally self-conscious about it, so I don't think about it that much. But when I hear the record I can tell it's me.

Todd Rundgren

#88. He grinned. "Busted. I'm a monster. Jev is my deceptively harmless - and shockingly handsome - alter ego."
"And I'm on top of it," she announced with witty triumph.
"Is that a Freudian slip?"
His bluntness caught her off guard. A self-conscious blush rose in her face.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#89. I have two books that were published quite some time ago. I start to read about three sentences. I have to close it. I am so self-conscious. Who did I think I was?

Patty Duke

#90. When I look at myself as a younger actor, I see what a tight ass I was. I had a pretty big shadow because of my father and the comparisons. I was self-conscious about that. Now I realize there was nothing to be worried about.

Michael Douglas

#91. Be awake to the details around you, but don't be self-conscious.

Natalie Goldberg

#92. We all self-conscious. I'm just the first to admit it.

Kanye West

#93. The Who, England's most self-conscious band, have released 'Quadrophenia,' which in turn freezes in time our image of the mid-Sixties Mod sensibility.

Jon Landau

#94. I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process.

St. Lucia

#95. The urge to transcend self-conscious selfhood is, as I have said, a principal appetite of the soul.

Aldous Huxley

#96. I'm used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you're asking me to be me, I get very self-conscious. My job isn't to be me. Being an actor, people think you can do a eulogy at a funeral, a speech at a wedding. I find all that very nerve-racking.

Eddie Marsan

#97. When man thinks in self-conscious submission to the voluntary revelation of the self-sufficient God, he has therewith the only possible ground of certainty for his knowledge.

Cornelius Van Til

#98. thinking is the enemy of creativity because it's self-conscious.

Sean Patrick

#99. I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordinary spectacle. I was incredibly green and had no idea what an undertaking it is. I also have a new respect for models because they are so close to the front row and must be so self-conscious.

Eddie Redmayne

#100. It's like a relay race of being ignored. It is really challenging, but whenever I get asked that stuff, I feel really self-conscious about it. I feel really lucky because we have a lot of help. When I first began to be a dad with Gwen [Stefani], I was amazed at what she went through.

Gavin Rossdale