“I need to be ambushed, caught unawares, like some sort of feral love-jackal. I’m too self-conscious otherwise.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to widdle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to… — Billy Campbell Copy Share Image
Everyone needs to stop complaining and just live life stop wasting it being self conscious and annoyed with everything and everyone. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Almost everyone I've ever met who overeats is doing so on behalf of an old self (a discouraged child, an unpopular teenager,… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The roughest part is showing up. Once you throw yourself into the scene, it's just great fun to let it all go… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
It was through reading that I discovered the crucial, even sacrosanct place the rituals of drinking held in the American imagination -… — Daphne Merkin Copy Share Image
I like getting up in front of an audience. It's fun when you go to a baseball game and the crowd is… — Jon Lovitz Copy Share Image
As a candidate, Obama disdained the game of politics, a self-conscious contrast to all the tireless political athletes named Clinton. — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Christian art is the expression of the whole life of the whole person as a Christian. What a Christian portrays in his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I created 'The Westerner' because of anger - anger at never-miss sheriffs, always-right marshalls, whitewashed gunfighters ... anger at TV's quick-draw tin… — Sam Peckinpah Copy Share Image
“TOM Come on! Seriously … HELEN Okay, okay … I’m … (Beat.) You have my hand there, you know. TOM Yeah, I… — Neil LaBute Copy Share Image
Now that I'd experienced being a woman to a man I was in love with, I'd become self-conscious about being a woman… — Hilary Thayer Hamann Copy Share Image
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… — Andy Murray Copy Share Image
Stop smiling!” she ordered. “I can see you, Carter. Oh…and, uh, hullo, Walt.” The pot monster made squeaky grinding noises as it… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Novelists who pretend to understand what keeps them scribbling are really just guessing. A profound, unmet childish need to be acknowledged? Maybe.… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
I used to do fight sequences, and I started to get self-conscious about fight sequences, because invariably the other person would get… — Vin Diesel Copy Share Image
If you're up there [on stage] thinking about what you're doing, you're just not there and it's not going to happen.So trying… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I think that we are starting to get much more conscious about, you know, the importance of the spiritual path, and we… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The clothes are different: pre-dog, I used to be very finicky and self-conscious about how I looked; now I schlep around in… — Caroline Knapp 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
I was really shy when I was a child, very self-conscious about taking up space or being an attention seeker. I was… — Mickey Sumner Copy Share Image
After years and years of everybody commenting on the way I look and dress and being photographed, one starts to become self-conscious… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I never studied directing and I never really thought about doing it, and then I just found myself in that situation and… — Sofia Coppola Copy Share Image
When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware; we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I like to be comfortable. And I don't like to have to worry about having to adjust things if things are too… — Gwendoline Christie Copy Share Image
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… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
“She turned and pointed at her ass. “And I could be wrong, but I think this thing is even bigger than is… — G.A. Aiken Copy Share Image
I'm at that age where I watch such things with two minds, one that cackles at these capers and another that never… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
Art today is a new kind of instrument, an instrument for modifying consciousness and organizing new modes of sensibility . . .… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“I tried imitating him a few times. But I was too self-conscious, like someone trying to feel natural while walking about naked… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
I used to sketch - that's the way I thought out loud. Then they made a book of my sketches, and I… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Maybe it has something to do with turning 30. I don't feel as shy or nervous or self-conscious. I have more confidence… — Michelle Williams Copy Share Image
It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Being self-conscious is a turn off, if I give you a compliment and you go on and on and on about how… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do not allow yourself to suppress your thoughts. Instead, let the thoughts come before you and become a sort of observer. Start… — Rama Swami Copy Share Image
The great gifts of models are not that they're more beautiful than the next person, it's that they're able to be photographed… — Bono Copy Share Image
I don't think theory adds to criticism. (Methodology does, for better or worse.) Theory's function is to make criticism self-conscious, maybe even… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
I ended up becoming so self-conscious that my songs stopped being about my life and started being about what people thought of… — Liz Phair Copy Share Image
If you think about what you do, if you become self-conscious about it, you've got to be very careful. Because I really… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
Teenage years are hard. And, having taught high school for a number of years, I think they're particularly hard on teenage girls.… — Rob Thomas Copy Share Image