Uncomfortable Quotes - Page 23

• I don't dream - only if I'm uncomfortable or I'm going through something.

  Alicia Keys

  Dream, Ifs

  "Alicia Keys Talks Failure, The Anatomy Of A ‘Girl On Fire’ For HuffPost’s #nofilter". Interview With Kiki Von Glinow, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 28, 2012.

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• All on-set kisses are weird, no matter who it is, especially with people standing around coughing and sneezing. It's very uncomfortable!

  Bella Heathcote

  Kissing, People, Sneezing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• martyrs are always uncomfortable people to live with.

  Susan Moody

  Sacrifice, People, Martyr

  Susan Moody (1992). “Mosaic”, G K Hall & Company

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• People probably thought I was scary, but I was just uncomfortable with attention and tended to be a little closed off, except with friends. I learned to embrace the attention.

  Katie Chang

  People, Scary, Attention

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• I grew up near the sea in British Columbia and San Francisco, and lived in Malibu and Fiji for years. I get uncomfortable being too far inland.

  Raymond Burr

  Years, Sea, San Francisco

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• Scotland is a great nation, but its horses are very uncomfortable.

  Mel Gibson

  Horse, Scotland, Scottish

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• I've never been uncomfortable putting my heart on display, my feelings on display, certainly with an audience.

  David Coverdale

  Heart, Feelings, Audience

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• Scratch the surface of what's socially normal. I suppose in some way all of us have something we display to the public and things we feel too ashamed of or uncomfortable with to reveal to other people.

  Michael Fassbender

  People, Scratches, Way

  "What's a nice boy like Michael Fassbender doing in a film like Shame?" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2012.

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• Being funny is a symptom of what's underneath. You're pumping out all that energy because something else is going on inside you, some opposing force, something uncomfortable.

  Faith Prince

  Energy, Symptoms, Force

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• It's a little weird exchanging pictures for money. You know what I mean. It makes me a little uncomfortable.

  Noah Hathaway

  Mean, Littles, Exchanging

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• It's what I do well - I write about things that make people uncomfortable. That's probably the only thing I do better than my peers.

  Janis Ian

  Writing, People, Peers

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• With acting, I've got a character to inhabit. You've got to think about your intentions and your directions. In modeling, even though there's an act to it, a good model is a good model. For me it's uncomfortable territory. You start to feel quite insecure about yourself. There's nothing between you and the camera, and it's just you.

  Max Irons

  Character, Insecure, Thinking

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• I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.

  Yusef Komunyakaa

  Focus, Poet

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• All the terrible things we do to ourselves and others from alcoholism to character assignation to abuse to murder come from one cause: the inability to stay present with an uncomfortable feeling in the body and seek short-term relief.

  Pema Chodron

  Philosophy, Character, Medicine

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• I get uncomfortable in large groups of people and loud music.

  Kristin Kreuk

  People, Groups, Loud

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• Having your book edited is like watching your cat being operated on. It's uncomfortable and someone is probably going to get hurt. Most likely the cat. But in the end, things work out for the best and your cat is better it. And then your cat gets released in hardcover, and you have to read all of his reviews.

  Jenny Lawson

  Hurt, Book, Cat

  "Sassy Bloggess Jenny Lawson Mandates Cheesecake for Everyone...and for You to Read Her (Mostly True) Memoir, Out Today". Interview with Meredith Turits, www.glamour.com. April 17, 2012.

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• The hardest thing to write was explaining what anxiety feels like. Every time I'd try to really write about what it feels like to have an anxiety attack, I would actually have an anxiety attack. It was good material but so incredibly uncomfortable.

  Jenny Lawson

  Writing, Anxiety, Trying

  "Sassy Bloggess Jenny Lawson Mandates Cheesecake for Everyone...and for You to Read Her (Mostly True) Memoir, Out Today". Interview with Meredith Turits, www.glamour.com. April 17, 2012.

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• I've done a lot of talk shows where you can tell that the host is just thinking about what he wants to say next while you're answering him and that's really uncomfortable.

  Dave Navarro

  Thinking, Done, Want

  "Catching Up With Dave Navarro". Interview with Liz Kelly, voices.washingtonpost.com. December 13, 2007.

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• If by noise you mean uncomfortable sound, then pop music is noise to me.

  Merzbow

  Mean, Sound, Noise

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• That was where my dream began to take hold, of not havin' to pick cotton and potatoes, and not havin' to be uncomfortable, too hot or too cold. That in itself had driven me to try to find some better way of life.

  Buck Owens

  Dream, Trying, Cotton

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• Now, in answer to the question would we use force in the Middle East. I don't know...I hope not. We have no plans to, it is conceivable, I guess. It would be almost as bad as the seven days in May. You conjure up a situation where there is another oil embargo, and the people in this country are not only inconvenienced and uncomfortable, but suffer.

  George Scratchley Brown

  Country, Oil, People

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• And I don't want to live anywhere where I am famous. It makes me very, very uncomfortable, because it conveys an advantage over people, and I don't like that.

  Donna Leon

  People, Want, Advantage

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• I'm so uncomfortable, especially in emotional situations, having to say sentences that don't feel right. As an actor - or really, as any kind of person sensitive to it.

  Franka Potente

  Emotional, Actors, Kind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm often uncomfortable with girliness, to be honest.

  Elizabeth Reaser

  Honest, Being Honest

  "Elizabeth Reaser on Broadway, Breasts and Playing Opposite the Big Boys — Brave and True". Interview with Nancy Doyle Palmer, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 26, 2012.

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• Let's just say that I have a tendency if I am uncomfortable in a situation to speak my mind.

  Octavia Spencer

  Mind, Speak, Tendencies

  "Interview with Octavia Spencer of The Help". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. August 9, 2011.

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