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… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
I think if you feel weird and self-conscious about that kind of stuff - which happened to me at some points -… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
Fundamentalism has stood aloof from the liberal in self-conscious superiority and has on its own part fallen into error, the error of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At first I wanted to go to university, but I really didn't dare to. I was too self-conscious, being a working-class kid.… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
I was never apposed or sought out nudity, but it was necessary in the Where the Truth Lies. If they didn't have… — Rachel Blanchard Copy Share Image
You wouldn't consider all the bipeds you pass on the street human beings simply because they walk upright and carry their young… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Some writing is a really nice solitary process, in a way, because you can be a little self-conscious around other people. If… — Marketa Irglova Copy Share Image
I never worry about looking cool in front of a guy. I have never been a self-conscious girl. Goofing around is part… — Ashlee Simpson Copy Share Image
When I've taught writing to five, six, and seven year olds, it's not very different than talking to an adult writer. They're… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
When I was in school, martial arts made you a dork, and I became self-conscious that I was too masculine. I was… — Ronda Rousey Copy Share Image
As a kid, I was a little self-conscious because I was so much taller than everyone. A bad habit of mine used… — John Isner Copy Share Image
I think a lot of women want to be, like... 'I'm cool with stretch marks and my body changing.' To be honest,… — Kat Von D Copy Share Image
But what after all, behind appearance, is the seeming mystery? We can see that it is the Consciousness which had lost itself,… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Weeks go by, and I don't paint until finally I can't stand it any longer. I get fed up. I almost don't… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
As a piece of writing, The Elementary Particles feels like a bad, self-conscious pastiche of Camus, Foucault and Bret Easton Ellis. And… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
I could completely do without the fame. It makes me self-conscious. It is a responsibility. I believe that if people look up… — Josh Holloway Copy Share Image
I'm starting to shake it off, I am quite self-conscious, and it's only when I'm playing roles that I can escape that.… — Jessica Brown Findlay Copy Share Image
“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body,… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
I don't pay much attention to how the plays relate thematically to each other. I think that's very dangerous to do, because… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
I do lots of other drugs but I smoke pot maybe 5-10 times a year now. I used to smoke it all… — David Cross Copy Share Image
One of the biggest things I've done is learn how to love myself, flaws and all. Even the things I don't like… — Ricky Williams Copy Share Image
I don't have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I am somebody who usually writes out the rough draft in longhand. Then I type it into the computer, and that is… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Both Arthur Ashe and Billie Jean King used these phrases ("playing out of one's mind," or "over one's head") to describe their… — Timothy Gallwey Copy Share Image
Sitcom characters, my writing partner Sam Bain and I sometimes tell each other, are not normally self-conscious. Or not quite. The best… — Jesse Armstrong Copy Share Image
I was uncomfortable because I had never been that nude before. I had never shown my legs, and never shown quite that… — Mariette Hartley Copy Share Image
I'd done two years on a soap opera where I was shooting things every day and they gave me a hard time… — Iwan Rheon Copy Share Image
For most of my life, I did not feel self-conscious about being short. If anything, I looked at it as like a… — Quinta Brunson Copy Share Image
I was pretty self-conscious about my body because everybody kept going on like, "Oh, she's so curvy!" and "She's a plus-size model!"… — Lara Stone Copy Share Image
I'm used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you're asking me to be me, I… — Eddie Marsan Copy Share Image
When I was growing up I regularly visited a centre to get new prosthetic legs. If anything, I used to look forward… — Alex Brooker Copy Share Image
I never got picked on, but I never had a lot of friends. When I talked to my parents about it, they… — Teri Polo Copy Share Image
Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Permanent Adolescence. It… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further business in life… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The early Stones were adolescent rockers. They were self-conscious in an obvious and unpretentious way. And they were committed to a musical… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
What’s the point of opening yourself up to your friends if they don’t notice you in your vulnerable state? The point of… — Esther Earl Copy Share Image
The New Testament writers I think conceive of their inspired Scripture writings as flushing out, bringing to articulation, expounding and so on… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
God -- if he really exist -- is good, alive, self-conscious, and governs all things according to his benevolent and holy providence;… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
When writers are self-conscious about themselves as writers they often keep a great distance from their characters, sounding as if they were… — Jerome Stern Copy Share Image
