Self Conscious Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• 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 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 used to be very unathletic. I was always so gangly and self-conscious about my height. I had convinced myself I was uncoordinated. And as a result, I didn't want to try stuff.

  Geena Davis

  Self, Trying, Want

  "The Conversation With Geena Davis, Leading The Charge On Gender Equity In Entertainment". Interview with Alison Glock, www.espn.com. October 30, 2015.

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• I wear some of my stuff, but usually the less in-your-face designs. I get a little self conscious, there is a fine line between pride and ego.

  Shepard Fairey

  Pride, Self, Design

  Source: www.complex.com

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• When a young writer deliberately tries to create an effect, the result is often a little self-conscious and overdone. But why is it so hard for us to glory in what the writer has tried to do, or even in the very fact that the writer has deliberately tried to do something?

  Lucy Calkins

  Self, Trying, Littles

  Lucy McCormick Calkins, Lucy Calkins (1991). “Living Between the Lines”, Heinemann Educational Books

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• The problem is that if you're self-conscious about being a person on whom nothing is lost, isn't something lost - some kind of presence? You're distracted by trying to be totally, perfectly impressionable.

  Ben Lerner

  Self, Trying, Kind

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• When you present something that you have worked on to somebody else, for some reason that is the moment when you can see everything that you have done wrong. They may or may not agree, but it is more of a personal thing for me. It is that I am looking at it because you are self conscious and suddenly there is someone in the room that is seeing it for the first time.

  Michael Giacchino

  Self, Done, May

  Source: collider.com

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• The only disadvantage to directing if you've been an actor is how self-conscious you are. When I'm directing, I'm always so aware when I'm speaking to an actor of how easily I could throw them off by saying something careless or not being clear or concise. So it does make you watch your words in a way that sometimes is unhelpful.

  Sarah Polley

  Self, Doe, Watches

  "Sarah Polley" by Katie Holmes, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2013.

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• People who take books on sex to bed become frigid. You get self-conscious. You can't think a story. You can't think, "I shall do a story to improve mankind." Well, it's nonsense. All the great stories, all the really worthwhile plays, are emotional experiences. If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don't. A story is the same way. You either feel a story and need to write it, or you better not write it.

  Ray Bradbury

  Girl, Sex, Book

  "Ray Bradbury's Lost Interview On Madmen, Writing, and Cars" by Chris Higgins, mentalfloss.com. April 28, 2015.

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• I don't go out of my way to get noticed. When I'm in Scotland it's tough, because loads of people come up to me. They're always really polite. It's nice, it's fun and good to speak to people who aren't involved in tennis, but some have this habit of just staring at me and that makes me really self-conscious. I'd rather they came up and said hello.

  Andy Murray

  Fun, Nice, Scotland

  "INTERROGATION: Andy Murray". Mirror Online Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. July 1, 2007.

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• The more I focused on my need to get better the worse I actually got - the more neurotic and self-conscious and self-absorbed I became.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Self, Get Better, Needs

  Source: www.lifeisstory.com

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• What actors are good at doing is walking into a situation that should make you incredibly self-conscious and frightened and doing it anyway. That's the gig, pretending that you are comfortable.

  William H. Macy

  Self, Actors, Gigs

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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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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• I feel like something has changed for me, but it’s a new change, so it’s going to be hard for me to describe. Maybe it has something to do with turning 30. I don’t feel as shy or nervous or self-conscious. I have more confidence that I can handle what life brings me. I don’t feel scared to have an idea and express it. I feel giddy about it because it’s a complete transformation. It’s like I’ve found my voice.

  Michelle Williams

  Voice, Self, Ideas

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

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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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• 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 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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• Whenever there's a camera in my face, that's when I feel vulnerable, and then it turns into a little bit of being self-conscious, which I think is the worst kind of vulnerability.

  Jason Mraz

  Thinking, Self, Littles

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 01, 2014.

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• I feel passionately about how I express myself. Language is the greatest motivating force. You can phrase something positively and inspire people to do their best, or negatively and make them feel worried, uncertain, and self-conscious. You can talk at a fast pace and people will get nervous, feel afraid to bring up extraneous thoughts. But those are the very thoughts that might be most important! They might represent that person's best thinking. If you're rushed, you're simply not going to get at that extra level of thinking.

  Frances Hesselbein

  Thinking, Self, People

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• It was through reading that I discovered the crucial, even sacrosanct place the rituals of drinking held in the American imagination - the ingenious way alcohol seemed to lubricate everything from onerous chitchat to self-conscious sexual advances.

  Daphne Merkin

  Reading, Drinking, Self

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• To not be self-conscious of your appearance is huge, and something that I desperately hope to carry into film at some point in my useless life - to not be thinking, "My ear looks weird from this angle, why is the camera over there?"

  Anna Kendrick

  Thinking, Useless Life, Self

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. October 7, 2011.

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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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• 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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• 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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