When I first began, the technicians, camera and makeup men made me feel so self-conscious that I began to have the biggest… — Jessie Matthews 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
I've had trouble gaining access to certain people I'd really love to interview because they're worried I'll make fun of them. I'm… — Lisa Hanawalt Copy Share Image
I was at an all-girls' school, so there were a lot of us who were really awkward. I was this tall when… — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
Sometime, when you start thinking too much what an audience is going to think, when you're too self-conscious about it, you make… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
Life in the [London] suburb is richer at the lower levels. At these levels the people are not self-conscious at all, they… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
Many church folk, in their self-conscious attempt to be overtly morally upright, emit all the wrong signals, thus messing with people's perception… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
When I look at myself as a younger actor, I see what a tight ass I was. I had a pretty big… — Michael Douglas Copy Share Image
I never believed in love at first sight, until I met Derek. It's all-consuming and delicious and wonderful and exciting. At the… — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
If you're familiar enough with my body of work, my voice is a familiar totem, in a sense. I guess I have… — Todd Rundgren Copy Share Image
As we become more mature we will learn to master the interplay between the past and the present and not be so… — Alvin Lustig Copy Share Image
I really love hanging out on the set, and I love the life, and all of that. But I don't think I… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
It is far more than the discovery of life without a self. The immediate, inevitable result is an emergence into a new… — Bernadette Roberts Copy Share Image
I've always been slightly self-conscious as an actor, and I guess that sometimes reads as pomposity. Starting when I was 30, I… — Charles Kimbrough Copy Share Image
Disgrace is a subtle, multi-layered story, as much concerned with politics as it is with the itch of male flesh. Coetzee's prose… — Paul Bailey Copy Share Image
I got very self-conscious about the way I look. So I, especially with young people coming into the industry and young actors,… — June Diane Raphael Copy Share Image
I like to do the pictures before people get too self-conscious. I like to be spontaneous and get a shot before the… — Keira Knightley Copy Share Image
Everyone at school knew who my dad was. It made me a little self-conscious a little introverted because I had a lot… — James McCartney Copy Share Image
I was horribly self-conscious; I wanted everybody to look at me and think me the most fascinating creature in the world, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have two books that were published quite some time ago. I start to read about three sentences. I have to close… — Patty Duke Copy Share Image
Character is the spiritual body of the person, and represents the individualization of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into self-conscious… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
“I'm going to promote myself exactly as I am, with all my weak points and my strong ones. My weak points are… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I do not understand why we are not raised to celebrate our bodies as children. Why we are told to be shy… — Karan Johar Copy Share Image
Great acting can be almost a psychotic mix of self-consciousness and unself-consciousness. And thats the terrible conflict. You have to be free… — Alec Baldwin Copy Share Image
You can't always just put color filters in 80s aerobic videos or take stuff from public-access and look at it in this… — Alan Palomo Copy Share Image
Never did I dream that while I was feeling so self-conscious and inadequate in the '60s, I was actually creating The Judith… — Judith Durham Copy Share Image
My feeling is that I think writers in general tend to be self-conscious and it takes a bit of a leap of… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Like most girls I'm always really self-conscious about do I look fat, if my legs are short, if I'm weird shaped, but… — Janis Joplin Copy Share Image
Now that we were alone,i was self-conscious and cranky again.Why had i wanted to stay?if i had been programmed to want to… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Early on, I played a Chinese delivery person, and even that, which was very innocuous, felt like I was somehow betraying myself.… — John Cho Copy Share Image
A desirable advertisement will be reasonable, but never dull ... original, but never self-conscious ... imaginative, but never misleading. — Fairfax M. Cone Copy Share Image
When I was there, something clicked in my head; I found myself interviewing people, searching out facts and figures. Later on I… — Joe Sacco Copy Share Image
Once you attain stardom, you lose that finer touch with society. When you are a man on the street, you get to… — Kamal Haasan Copy Share Image
We're just so self-conscious. However much we try not to be, on some level, especially as a woman and an actress, you… — Phoebe Waller-Bridge Copy Share Image
I've never had tastes of people my own age. All of my friends when I was 15 were in their 40s. I'm… — Jesse Eisenberg Copy Share Image
It's cute when a girl gets jealous but when she's self conscious and thinks you're with 'other bitches' when you're sleeping is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Printing demands a humility of mind, for the lack of which many of the fine arts are even now floundering in self-conscious… — Beatrice Warde Copy Share Image
The purpose of life is to know yourself, create yourself, experience yourself as Who You Really Are. There is no other reason… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
I was very, very nervous about the naked scenes. I'm very shy and reserved. But it was Bertolucci and I have seen… — Eva Green Copy Share Image
Inhibition is something I notice in hamstrung actors all the time. They can be wonderful up to a point and then become… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image