Self Conscious Quotes - Page 6

• I have this self-conscious inclination to just say "anyone who hates it, that's cool that's fine!"

  Philip Morrison

  Hate, Self, Conscious

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I was feeling privileged and self-conscious about my life as a musician, which feels self-absorbed. I can't help it, I am a musician. This is what I do.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Self, Feelings, Musician

  "It’s Sufjan Stevens’ Way or the Highway". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2009.

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• I like to do the pictures before people get too self-conscious. I like to be spontaneous and get a shot before the subject thinks too much about it.

  Keira Knightley

  Thinking, Self, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There are some people who do not have a wild past because being wild would make them terribly self-conscious and uncomfortable.

  Emily Yoffe

  Past, Self, People

  "Outnumbered" by Emily Yoffe, www.slate.com. October 12, 2015.

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• I always get nervous before a kissing scene. I make sure I always brush my teeth and eat lots of fruit and nice foods rather than garlic. I'm terribly self conscious.

  Drew Barrymore

  Nice, Kissing, Self

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Now that we were alone,i was self-conscious and cranky again.Why had i wanted to stay?if i had been programmed to want to be with dylan,heads were gonna roll,i promise you that.

  James Patterson

  Self, Promise, Want

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• I think I'm a shy, self-conscious person who thinks he's being looked at and tries to look okay. Not in a hottie, narcissistic way necessarily.

  Mark Leyner

  Thinking, Self, Trying

  "Whit Stillman and Mark Leyner on Their First Projects in 15 Years". Interview with Matthew Perpetua, www.rollingstone.com. April 6, 2012.

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• 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

  Self, Band, England

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• Skill in any performance whether it be in sports in playing the piano in conversation or in selling merchandise consists not in painfully and consciously thinking out each action as it is performed but in relaxing and letting the job do itself through you. Creative performance is spontaneous and ‘natural’ as opposed to self-conscious and studied.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Sports, Jobs, Thinking

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.56, Penguin

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• I love to read about music and about art, but I don't try and take things about mythology or guidelines as to how I'm to behave as an artist. It's the realm of intellectual debate. Actually, more and more my direction is trying to get further away from being self-conscious of what the parameters are of the mainstream, where it intersects with the underground.

  Emily Haines

  Art, Self, Intellectual

  Source: www.sfcritic.com

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• No wonder the regulators decided on segregation of boys and girls: Otherwise, it would have been a nightmare, this feeling angry and self-conscious and confused and annoyed all the time.

  Lauren Oliver

  Girl, Confused, Boys

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• Amusing and perfectly self-conscious charlatans.

  Noam Chomsky

  Self, Amusing, Conscious

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• One is conscious of no brave and noble earnestness in it, of no generalized passion for intellectual and spiritual adventure, of no organized determination to think things out. What is there is a highly self-conscious and insipid correctness, a bloodless respectability submergence of matter in manner--in brief, what is there is the feeble, uninspiring quality of German painting and English music.

  H. L. Mencken

  Spiritual, Determination, Adventure

  H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd

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• Self-conscious? Try a wig, a corset, a veil, a beard. Or cultivate shamelessness.

  Mason Cooley

  Self, Trying, Wigs

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• There's often rarely any dialogue in a sex scene. With your fellow actor, it's good to talk about what the unspoken dialogue is, that's happening in the scene. You've got to play something rather than feel self-conscious or exposed.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Sex, Self, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• If I spent my time worrying about what other people would think of my work, I would be too self-conscious to write.

  Christopher Paolini

  Writing, Thinking, Self

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• 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

  Thinking, Self, Years

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• I've never had tastes of people my own age. All of my friends when I was 15 were in their 40s. I'm not actually mature, just very self-conscious around people my own age because I feel like I'm supposed to act the same way they act and I don't know how.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Self, People, Age

  "Jesse Eisenberg: Privacy settings engaged". Interview with Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2010.

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• Weeks go by, and I dont paint until finally I cant stand it any longer. I get fed up. I almost dont want to talk about it, because I dont want to become self-conscious about it, but perhaps I create these little crises as a kind of a secret strategy to push myself.

  Gerhard Richter

  Self, Secret, Want

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

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Self, Going Out, Conscious

  "Venice star Jesse Eisenberg on fame, film and politics". Interview with Jon Frosch, www.france24.com. September 1, 2013.

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• High school was hard for me. I tried really hard to fit in and said the things I thought people wanted to hear. But I was unsure of myself. I was self-conscious, and I didn't really know my place or where I fit in.

  Meaghan Rath

  School, Self, People

  "Get to Know Being Human's Meaghan Rath". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. March 3, 2011.

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

  Bobby Darin

  Sexy, Self, Conscious

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• I'm quite sensitive to people noticing me. There are times when I'm relaxed, then others when it does make me self-conscious.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Self, People, Doe

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• I think acting has helped me come out of my shell because when I play a character, I can't be self-conscious.

  Joan Cusack

  Character, Thinking, Self

  "Celebrity Q+A: Joan Cusack". Interview with Patty A. Martinez, www.familycircle.com.

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• 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

  Character, Self, Who I Am

  "Q&A: Benedict Cumberbatch talks Penguins Of Madagascar". Interview with Andy Lea, www.dailystar.co.uk. December 7, 2014.

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