Uncomfortable Quotes

Guys don't really don't wanna hear if it's really smart, and women feel uncomfortable if you reveal stuff they're going to have to remember they did themselves.
Liz Phair

Women, Smart, Remember

I have written things that Republicans and Democrats and all kinds of figures have either hated or felt very uncomfortable about. Because in doing these long projects and books, you get close to the bone. And they're not calling me up and asking me for dinner.
Bob Woodward

Long, Books, Either

I was trying to convince all these men to try to make a product that they didn't even wear! Or if they did wear them, they were not admitting it! There was the problem right there. No wonder their hosiery was so uncomfortable.
Sara Blakely

Men, Trying, Try

I like to grow as an actor, and you can do that by playing parts that are unfamiliar to you and uncomfortable.
David Schwimmer

Playing, Actor, Grow

I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy. Making people laugh one moment and the next making them feel really uncomfortable.
Steve Coogan

Laugh, Moment, Between

Even the small amount of infamy I have makes me uncomfortable - on a personal level and on a professional level.
John Hawkes

Small, Personal, Makes

Exposing any subject that is unpleasant or controversial means risking judgment and making some people feel uncomfortable.
Carre Otis

Making, Means, Judgment

I felt uncomfortable in cliques.
Kate Bosworth

There's people that are just in awe of what you do, and then there are people who just think it's garbage. And I think there are people who are just uncomfortable seeing someone have fun with their job.
Todd Barry

Fun, Job, Someone

The purpose of making people feel uncomfortable is to play with their preconceptions.
Mike White

Play, Purpose, Making

I'm not super comfortable in my skin. I have to make it work for me, and that usually amounts to making it uncomfortable for everyone else.
Aubrey Plaza

Work, Else, Everyone

You know, it was uncomfortable doing the same thing. I don't like a rut.
Ruben Blades

Underwear makes me uncomfortable and besides my parts have to breathe.
Jean Harlow

Makes, Breathe, Underwear

If people choose to live their life in a way that does not confront the more troubling aspects of their experience, that's fine, if it works for them. But it will probably make them uncomfortable if they come up against somebody like me. So they just shouldn't! They shouldn't read my work!
Joyce Maynard

Life, Work, Experience

I know that it's a big struggle with a lot of women to dress up - especially now women have been working - because it can be uncomfortable. So it was important to me with my role to make clothes that are slightly more dressed up but easy to wear.
Nicole Richie

Women, Struggle, Important

Herr Schroder has conducted two electoral campaigns, and he is doing it again now, by not telling people what is really necessary. He keeps avoiding the difficult and uncomfortable issues, those that imply changes and therefore provoke discussions.
Angela Merkel

Two, Difficult, Again

I never want to be a showoff or attention getter or something that, truthfully, is kind of repulsive to me, but I get uncomfortable.
Selma Blair

Attention, Repulsive, Truthfully

From my experience, politicians are much more uncomfortable being made fun of than they are being preached at and screeched at - you know, and the soapbox routine. They're much more uneasy knowing they're a target of ridicule.
Carl Hiaasen

Experience, Fun, Knowing

It's always uncomfortable for me when I take off my shirt. No one else is taking their shift off. Why is everyone else in these movies bundled up in layers of clothing and I'm taking my clothes off all the time?
Taylor Lautner

Time, Movies, Why

It has always seemed slightly uncomfortable, the idea of politicised musicians. Very few of them are clever enough to do it; if they're good at the political side, the music side suffers, and vice versa.
Robert Smith

Music, Good, Political

People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections.
Steven Pinker

Today, Political, Thought

We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.
Jared Diamond

History, Science, Social

It's what I do well - I write about things that make people uncomfortable. That's probably the only thing I do better than my peers.
Janis Ian

Indian celebrities have the media and fans permanently outside their homes, and that would make me really uncomfortable.
Freida Pinto

Media, Fans, Outside

Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.
Candace Bushnell

Money, Women, Power

I'm very uncomfortable with my body, and I'm not interested in people seeing it on screen.
Alicia Silverstone

Body, Interested, Seeing

Encouraging people to believe in it was the most important thing of all. It's one of the reasons I was always uncomfortable whenever film crews came on the set to shoot things. I didn't want our make-believe to be exposed.
Patrick Stewart

Important, Film, Reasons

I don't like lifts and will walk up 20 flights of stairs if I have to. Crowded rooms make me uncomfortable, too, although I can sing to a stadium full of thousands of people no bother.
Robin Gibb

Walk, Full, Sing

America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
Carlisle Floyd

America, Put, Talent

Watching a person lose their dignity used to be uncomfortable, and now it's an expected part of the program that we're becoming comfortable with.
Lisa Kudrow

Person, Lose, Used

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