Self Conscious Quotes - Page 9

• There's a certain truism that you can't be self-conscious in comedy. If I'm in it and if there's a scene that has a great set-up, I will go as far as somebody will let me.

  Ari Graynor

  Self, Comedy, Scene

  Source: collider.com

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• No man, however civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming, or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn singing, and retain intact his critical and self-conscious personality.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Self, Hymns

  Aldous Huxley (1971). “The devils of Loudon”

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• Suddenly self-conscious, she shifted from one booted foot to the other. "I asked the cloud for battle-ready clothing, and this is what I got. There are slits all over the pants, for easy access to the weapons, I'm guessing. But the bustier has me stumped. Unless, of course, the cloud thinks my cleavage will stun my opponents into stupidity." -Annabelle

  Gena Showalter

  Thinking, Clouds, Self

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• In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash.

  Adrienne Rich

  Cutting, Light, Self

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• Thus Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Douglas and Mr. Joyce partly spoil their books for women readers by their display of self-conscious virility; and Mr. Hemingway, but much less violently, follows suit.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Self, Suits

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3669, Delphi Classics

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• Stop smiling!” she ordered. “I can see you, Carter. Oh…and, uh, hullo, Walt.” The pot monster made squeaky grinding noises as it stood up straight. One clunky arm rose and tried to fix Sadie’s nonexistent hair. Leave it to Sadie to be self-conscious around boys, even when she’s made out of pots and duct tape.

  Rick Riordan

  Boys, Hair, Self

  Rick Riordan (2012). “The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles Book 3)”, p.114, Penguin UK

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• 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

  Men, Self, Years

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• I'd done two years on a soap opera where I was shooting things every day and they gave me a hard time about that, which I think is the wrong way to teach a young actor. They just made me really, really self-conscious about everything I did, which is the opposite of what you need to be when you're filming.

  Iwan Rheon

  Hard Times, Thinking, Self

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• My sport has transformed my body to be powerful for a specific task over years of training and competition. The more tuned for competition I am, the less "feminine" I look, and it has made me feel powerful on the track but self-conscious in the sack. That transformed for me as I let go of feminine ideals of all kinds, in work, parenting, etc.

  Lauren Fleshman

  Sports, Letting Go, Powerful

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• I think I was like [a game of] skittles, knocked apart by this wooden ball, and there's a strength to that: you're not too self-conscious about what you're doing, so you're not too worried about it.

  David Toop

  Thinking, Games, Self

  "The Strange World Of... David Toop". Interview with Karen Shook, thequietus.com. June 28, 2016.

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• The New Testament writers I think conceive of their inspired Scripture writings as flushing out, bringing to articulation, expounding and so on the climactic revelation in the son, but this in self-conscious fulfillment of the promises and covenants that were already made to God's chosen people in Old Testament times.

  D. A. Carson

  Writing, Son, Thinking

  Source: www.booksataglance.com

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• The roughest part is showing up. Once you throw yourself into the scene, it's just great fun to let it all go and not be self-conscious, and stop questioning whether you're sufficient.

  William H. Macy

  Fun, Self, Showing Up

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Julian Schnabel

  Thinking, Self, Painting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I started working in front of the camera for the first time when I was 15 years old. I joined a soap opera. We filmed in Brooklyn and I would skip class to shoot my scenes. It was terrifying and I entirely self-conscious in front of the camera.

  Paul Wesley

  Class, Self, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am somebody who usually writes out the rough draft in longhand. Then I type it into the computer, and that is where I do my editing. I find that if I write it on the computer, I go too quick. So I like getting that first draft out and then typing it in; you are less self-conscious about it.

  Barack Obama

  Writing, Editing, Self

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• There are moments when, like all of us, you get a bit self-conscious and you'd rather not be living any of your day in public. Those are the awkward times, but you've got to have fun with it.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Fun, Self, Awkward

  "Benedict Cumberbatch: Code Breaker Alan Turing Was A Puzzle Himself". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. November 21, 2014.

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• You know, the songs that are self-conscious or jerky, they are that way, but the other ones aren't, so that's a good thing. Some of the songs are Beck-jokey, but the others, they have heart in them.

  Stephen Malkmus

  Song, Heart, Self

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• 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

  Nice, Self, Effort

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I just like watching people who really are not self-conscious, who aren't aware, because I fear that one could become too self-conscious, too artful, as an actor. Sometimes if you look at somebody, you can extrapolate from their exterior what might be happening in their interior. I'm nosy.

  Harriet Walter

  Self, People, Actors

  "Life's looking up, Dame Harriet". Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2011.

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• 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

  Jobs, Thinking, Knowing

  "Eddie Marsan: 'I Don't Have a Great Need to Be Liked by an Audience'". Interview with Cath Clarke, www.theguardian.com. November 01, 2011.

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• 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

  Art, Mean, Self

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• There's not a woman in the world who hasn't felt self-conscious about something! We as women all experience it but we never talk about it.

  Coco Rocha

  Self, World, Conscious

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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

  St. Lucia

  Writing, Self, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A lot of the people I was writing with think a lot more about lyrics and a lot more about the details from the beginning. That kind of thinking made me a little self-conscious because I was suddenly having to judge what I was doing early on in the process.

  St. Lucia

  Writing, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Self, Care, Next

  Source: therumpus.net

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