Self-Conscious Quotes

I did get bullied and I did get picked on and I did have that feeling in my gut of being incredibly self-conscious. I naturally gravitated towards my elders because I didn't know how to speak or be present with my peers.
Heather Matarazzo

Feeling, Speak, Present

We are all very individual. You have to find out what you can do best, and be self-conscious about that.
Joshua Lederberg

Best, Find, Individual

I used to be more self-conscious about style because when you're younger, you want to exist, you want to show everything you do.
Vincent Cassel

Everything, Show, Used

I'm starting to shake it off, I am quite self-conscious, and it's only when I'm playing roles that I can escape that. The older I get, the more people tell me it's absolutely fine to be the way you are with all your quirks and nuances, and I wish I'd learnt that younger - I would have relaxed a bit more.
Jessica Brown Findlay

Wish, Tell, Off

The first six years of my career, I got more comments on my weight than on my singing. So I think I became so self-conscious that I started working on it harder.
Kenny Rogers

Career, Working, Started

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

Her, Voice, Hear

For a while I couldn't leave the house by myself. Even if I was just grocery shopping alone, I'd get self-conscious.
Shannen Doherty

Alone, Leave, While

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

Respect, Fashion, Before

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

Movies, Often, Serves

I like getting up in front of an audience. It's fun when you go to a baseball game and the crowd is cheering you. I can't deny it. And it's very funny, too. Sometimes you're shy; you go somewhere and everyone's looking at you, so you feel a little self-conscious.
Jon Lovitz

Funny, Fun, Game

You ask people what their ethnicity is, and a lot of Scots-Irish people either don't know or if they know it they just don't acknowledge it. It's not something they really identify with. They're just plain old Americans, plain vanilla. I don't think they are a self-conscious voting bloc.
John Shelton Reed

Old, Voting, Ask

I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real.
China Mieville

Failure, Real, Touch

There's something about prime time television and the way the song is going to come off on the air. I'm very concerned, very self-conscious about that.
Jon Secada

Time, Off, Song

As always, with acting, you can't be too self-conscious. You shouldn't care about what people are thinking about you at the time because they're not caring about you, they're caring about the character.
Freddie Highmore

Time, Character, Care

A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to whittle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious. So, it's always a challenge, whether I'm lying in a hospital bed or flying around with a rocket pack on my back, or what have you. On the best of days, it's a challenge for me.
Billy Campbell

Great, Best, Battle

When I was there, something clicked in my head; I found myself interviewing people, searching out facts and figures. Later on I became much more self-conscious of what I was doing.
Joe Sacco

Found, Head, Facts

Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself.
Eric Bogosian

Real, Pretty, Himself

I work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a pretty self-conscious person.
Terry Gross

Work, Great, Person

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

Fear, Words, Put

I don't read reviews, There's no value for me in reading them. Whether they're good or bad, they'll just make me self-conscious.
Mary Stuart Masterson

Good, Bad, Read

I'm very self-conscious as an actor, with performances and things, and I don't like watching my own stuff.
Matthew Lewis

Actor, Stuff, Watching

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

Love, Food, Show

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

Work, Writing, Voice

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

Struggle, America, Idea

When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process.
Anita Desai

Family, Young, Used

I never studied directing and I never really thought about doing it, and then I just found myself in that situation and tried it. I like to be observing everything else, and I get self-conscious in front of the camera.
Sofia Coppola

Everything, Thought, Else

My vanity is not remotely physical, it is cerebral. I suppose feeling self-conscious might be a form of vanity, though.
Richard Griffiths

Feeling, Might, Though

I think if you spend much time dwelling on influence you can get self-conscious about every line you write. That's a great way to freeze up.
Ben Fountain

Time, Great, Write

It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process.
Larry Harvey

Good, History, Society

I've always been slightly self-conscious as an actor, and I guess that sometimes reads as pomposity. Starting when I was 30, I somehow gave off an impression at an audition that had them mentally put me in a three-piece suit or put an attache case in my hand. If there was a stiff-guy part, the director would brighten up when I came in.
Charles Kimbrough

Put, Sometimes, Off

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