Self Conscious Quotes - Page 8

• Hollywood wouldn't suit me. In L.A. it's all about work - studio people have their five minutes with you and they go, 'Oh mah Gahd, I love your movie.' You just feel very self-conscious there.

  Eva Green

  Love You, Self, People

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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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• Under examination by the camera, a human body becomes for its inhabitant a field of betrayal more than a ground of communication, and the camera's further power is manifested as it documents the individual's self-conscious efforts to control the body each time it is conscious of the camera's attention to it.

  Stanley Cavell

  Betrayal, Communication, Self

  Stanley Cavell (2005). “Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life”, p.199, Harvard University Press

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• It is just this rage for consideration that has betrayed the dog into his satellite position as the friend of man. The cat, an animal of franker appetites, preserves his independence. But the dog, with one eye ever on the audience, has been wheedled into slavery, and praised and patted into the renunciation of his nature. Once he ceased hunting and became man's plate-licker, the Rubicon was crossed. Thenceforth he was a gentleman of leisure; and except the few whom we keep working, the whole race grew more and more self-conscious, mannered and affected.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Dog, Cat, Eye

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Memories and Portraits: Stevenson's Vol. 21”, p.65, VM eBooks

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• The feeling of an unbridgeable gulf between consciousness and brain-process:When does this feeling occur in the present case?It is when I (for example) turn my attention in a particular way on to my own consciousness, and, astonished, say to myself: THIS is supposed to be produced by a process in the brain!--as it were clutching my forehead.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Self, Feelings, Brain

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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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• 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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• Adolescents' immature thinking makes it difficult for them to process the divorce. They tend to see things in black-and-white terms and have trouble putting events into perspective. They are absolute in their judgments and expect perfection in parents. They are likely to be self-conscious about their parent's failures and critical of their every move. They have the expectations that parents will keep them safe and happy and are shocked by the broken covenant. Adolescents are unforgiving.

  Mary Pipher

  Moving, Divorce, Black And White

  Mary Pipher (2005). “Reviving Ophelia”, p.120, Penguin

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• ... my today's self perpetually slips out of any hold of it that I may try to take.

  Gilbert Ryle

  Self, Trying, May

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• I'm not incredibly self-conscious. I don't really feel like I walk around making fashion or my appearance the most important thing in the world. It's certainly not the way that I live my life. I'm not really sure how the magazines perceive me because I don't read them.

  Jessica Alba

  Fashion, Self, Important

  "Jessica Alba Brings the Funny in Good Luck Chuck". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. September 14, 2007.

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• I used to do fight sequences, and I started to get self-conscious about fight sequences, because invariably the other person would get hurt, and you never want anyone to be hurt on a film, let alone you being responsible. The great thing about working with guys who have spent their life choreographing fights for wrestling is that that's what they do. That's their specialty. Their specialty is selling taking hits. Their specialty is selling explosive hits without making a contact or doing too much damage.

  Vin Diesel

  Hurt, Wrestling, Fighting

  "Vin Diesel Interview, Riddick". www.moviesonline.ca. November 23, 2017.

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

  Mason Cooley

  Self, Trying, Wigs

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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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• I think the best kind of comedy is the least self conscious. I think if you just sort of let the comedy happen without the elbow nudge, did you get it, did you get it. I love straight face comedy or subtle - relatively subtle comedy.

  Betty White

  Thinking, Self, Elbows

  Source: www.lenalamoray.com

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• It [childbearing] was never intended to be as time-consuming and self-conscious a process as it is. One of the deepest evils in our society is tyrannical nurturance.

  Germaine Greer

  Self, Evil, Our Society

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• I was self-conscious of being so lanky, of being me. I'd keep my head down, make excuses not to go out. I'd look in the mirror and hate myself. I thought I was disgusting. I cried constantly from 11 to 16. If I could tell my younger self anything, it would be to learn to love your flaws. It's OK to look in the mirror and feel really confident about yourself.

  Jourdan Dunn

  Hate, Love You, Mirrors

  "I want to talk about what goes on". Interview With Eva Wiseman, September 20, 2013.

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• I don't read reviews, There's no value for me in reading them. Whether they're good or bad, they'll just make me self-conscious.

  Mary Stuart Masterson

  Reading, Self, Conscious

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• I find actors a little bit too self-conscious.

  Chris Lilley

  Self, Actors, Littles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Not for the first time, I wonder what it would feel like that, to be so beautiful that you don't even realize people are watching you, to be so confident that you don't even have to worry about being nervous or feeling self-conscious. I've spent what seems like my whole life trying to pretend I'm that way. What would it be like to have it just come naturally?

  Lauren Barnholdt

  Beautiful, Self, Worry

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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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• 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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• 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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