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

  Matthew Lewis

  Self, Actors, Stuff

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Self, Invisible, Pleasure

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• 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

  Character, Thinking About You, Caring

  "Freddie Highmore Talks ‘Toast,’ Working With Helena Bonham Carter And Growing Up". Interview with Crystal Bell, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2012.

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• I created 'The Westerner' because of anger - anger at never-miss sheriffs, always-right marshalls, whitewashed gunfighters ... anger at TV's quick-draw tin gods who stand behind a tin star or ten cents' worth of righteous anger and justify their skill and slaughter with a self-conscious grin or a minute's worth of bad philosophy.

  Sam Peckinpah

  Stars, Philosophy, Self

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• Some writing is a really nice solitary process, in a way, because you can be a little self-conscious around other people. If it's just you, and you're at your favorite piano, or whatever instrument, and you feel comfortable, then somehow, I always feel like it's opening a door and letting whatever is to pass through pass.

  Marketa Irglova

  Nice, Writing, Doors

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• 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

  Self, My Family, Conscious

  "Class Interview with Anita Desai". www.baruch.cuny.edu. 2003.

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• When I write, I wear earplugs. I don't want to be self-conscious. I don't want to be thinking about the fact that I'm thinking about it. I just want to be in it. It's one element of hypnosis.

  Miranda July

  Writing, Thinking, Hypnosis

  "This much I know: Miranda July" by Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2011.

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• 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

  Self, Feelings, Peers

  "Heather Matarazzo: ‘Welcome to the Dollhouse’ changed my life". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. March 22, 2011.

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• I notice if I'm too fat or if I'm too ugly or there's skin hanging or whatever. When my clothes start not fitting, I get really self-conscious about what I eat.

  Marina Abramovic

  Self, Clothes, Skins

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• 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

  Book, Thinking, Self

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• 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

  Baseball, Cheer, Fun

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To watch an American on a beach, or crowding into a subway, or buying a theatre ticket, or sitting at home with his radio on, tells you something about one aspect of the American character: the capacity to withstand a great deal of outside interference, so to speak; a willing acceptance of frenzy which, though it's never self-conscious, amounts to a willingness to let other people have and assert their own lively, and even offensive, character. They are a tough race in this.

  Alistair Cooke

  Beach, Character, Home

  "Letter from America, 1946-2004".

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• I was self-conscious of what I would call my "tree-trunk legs" because they are very muscular... but now I've learned to love them.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Self, Tree, Legs

  "Vanessa Hudgens Hated Her 'Tree Trunk Legs,' Talks Cheetos Weight Gain" By Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. March 15, 2011.

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• I never consciously place symbolism in my writing. That would be a self-conscious exercise and self-consciousness is defeating to any creative act. Better to get the subconscious to do the work for you, and get out of the way. The best symbolism is always unsuspected and natural. During a lifetime, one saves up information which collects itself around centers in the mind; these automatically become symbols on a subliminal level and need only be summoned in the heat of writing.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Exercise, Self

  "Famous Novelists on Symbolism in Their Work and Whether It Was Intentional". mentalfloss.com. June 15, 2012.

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• My whole life I've been so self-conscious about being skinny. And just recently I don't care anymore. All insecurities are projected because of what you think others are saying about you, but they don't really matter at all. My only real insecurities in high school were having such long legs and thick hair-things I'm so very grateful for now.

  Shailene Woodley

  Powerful, Real, Grateful

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• He is conscious only of God...To be conscious of knowing God is to know about God and self.

  Meister Eckhart

  God, Self, Knowing

  Meister Eckhart, Raymond Bernard Blakney (1941). “Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart”

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• I find still photographs make me quite self-conscious.

  Aidan Gillen

  Self, Photograph, Conscious

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Like most girls I'm always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I'm weird shaped, but when I go on stage, man, it never occurs to me. I think I look beautiful.

  Janis Joplin

  Beautiful, Girl, Men

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• 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.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Thinking, Self, Looks

  M. F. K. Fisher, Joan Reardon (2004). “The Art of Eating”, p.415, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

  Oscar Wilde

  Pain, Writing, Character

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.183, Courier Corporation

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• It makes me self-conscious. It's because I'm known, in the limelight, that it's getting all the gravy, but if you knew, if you saw some of the people who make it possible for UNICEF to help these children survive. These are the people who do the jobs-the unknowns, whose names you will never know...I at least get a dollar a year, but they don't.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Jobs, Children, Self

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• Alice was scrutinizing my boring jeans-and-a-T-shirt outfit in a way that made me self-conscious. Probably plotting another makeover. I sighed. My indifferent attitude to fashion was a constant thorn in her side. If I'd allow it, she'd love to dress me everyday―perhaps several times a day―like some oversized three-dimensional paper doll.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Fashion, Attitude, Self

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• 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

  Success, Father, Self

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• I'm very self-conscious having my picture taken, so I clown around. My driver's license photo looks like a blonde Elvis.

  Emily Procter

  Taken, Self, Blonde

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• Ripe for romance? Is that not only the self-conscious and sensitive young man's way of saying he was heavy with passion? Is not, perhaps, romance only the fiction by means of which the tender-minded negotiate their lust?

  Trevanian

  Passion, Mean, Men

  Trevanian (2005). “The Summer of Katya: A Novel”, p.9, Crown

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