Self Conscious Quotes - Page 5

• 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

  Self, Shopping, House

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• Hollywood's two polar types are the cynically drunken writer aggressively nursing a ten-year-old reputation and the theatrically self-conscious hermit who strides the boulevard in sandals, home-made shorts and a prophetic beard, muttering against the Age of the Machines.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Home, Nursing, Self

  Christopher Isherwood (1966). “Exhumations: Stories, Articles, Verses”

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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 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 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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• 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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• 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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• People have been so busy relating to how I look, it's a miracle I didn't become a self-conscious blob of protoplasm.

  Robert Redford

  Self, People, Miracle

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• If you become very self-conscious about what you are doing, you kill. You kill the character. Then it doesn't work. You have to come from a sincere place. And you don't think too much. I don't go to the hotel and I start thinking what am I going to say tomorrow and start writing things down.

  Antonio Banderas

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  "Antonio Banderas and Wesley Snipes Talk THE EXPENDABLES 3, Building Their Own Characters, Performing Stunts, Their Acting Process, and More". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. August 7, 2014.

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• I think most of us become self-critical as soon as we become self-conscious.

  Ellen Goodman

  Thinking, Self, Conscious

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• Self-conscious artiness is fatal, but it certainly would not hurt to study composition in general. Having a basic understanding of composition would help construct a better organized image.

  Berenice Abbott

  Hurt, Self, Understanding

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• When man thinks in self-conscious submission to the voluntary revelation of the self-sufficient God, he has therewith the only possible ground of certainty for his knowledge.

  Cornelius Van Til

  Men, Thinking, Self

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• I had a moment when I first got on Supernatural when I was like, omg, people are paying attention to me and I have fans, maybe I should cultivate an image and like try to seem really cool. I had this sort of moment of being commercially self conscious, and it took me maybe a month to realize, no, this is just not fucking who I am... Here's a picture of me in drag, fuck it - which is, by the way, so much more liberating and relaxing... There's not a more surefire way to give a stifled boring empty vapid meaningless piece of interview. Everything that comes out of your mouth sucks if you're trying to say the right thing...

  Misha Collins

  Fire, Self, People

  "Misha Collins Then and Now - Our Reciprocal Interviews with Castiel's Alter Ego". Interview with Lynn Zubernis, fangasmthebook.wordpress.com. March 12, 2012.

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• I don't mind being goofy and silly. I love to make people laugh and I'm not self-conscious.

  Malin Akerman

  Silly, Self, People

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• I was raised to be self-conscious about weight. Then as I got older and started doing television, it became a career issue, like, 'You have to lose weight or you'll lose that job.'

  Margaret Cho

  Jobs, Self, Careers

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• I was never apposed or sought out nudity, but it was necessary in the Where the Truth Lies. If they didn't have the nudity, but they still had the scenes - because sex is used as a power tool in this movie - I feel it would have felt self conscious and I think the scene is meant for you to feel uncomfortable.

  Rachel Blanchard

  Lying, Thinking, Nudity

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• I admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he's no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the universe and it looks hostile.

  John Shelby Spong

  Thinking, Self, Looks

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• The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, - this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost... He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Men, Self, African American

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois”, p.28, Oxford University Press

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• Amusing and perfectly self-conscious charlatans.

  Noam Chomsky

  Self, Amusing, Conscious

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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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• 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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