When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older… — Anita Desai Copy Share Image
I wear some of my stuff, but usually the less in-your-face designs. I get a little self conscious, there is a fine… — Shepard Fairey Copy Share Image
I think I was like [a game of] skittles, knocked apart by this wooden ball, and there's a strength to that: you're… — David Toop Copy Share Image
It's important to see the work of as many directors as possible but you must not become self-conscious. You have to accept… — James Ivory Copy Share Image
I didn't want to whisper and giggle about [puberty] anymore. I felt incredibly self-conscious. I felt like I was losing myself, and… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
Hollywood wouldn't suit me. In L.A. it's all about work - studio people have their five minutes with you and they go,… — Eva Green Copy Share Image
I dont understand how some people can be so self conscious. So what if people are judging you? Let them. Who cares… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Once the big lights come in, you can feel self-conscious. How can you capture the scene without ruining it and freezing people… — Jonathan Krisel Copy Share Image
We're shooting bathing suits down here in St. Barts of course, I do get extra self-conscious. But I'm still here. If there… — Lara Stone Copy Share Image
Under examination by the camera, a human body becomes for its inhabitant a field of betrayal more than a ground of communication,… — Stanley Cavell Copy Share Image
Suddenly self-conscious, she shifted from one booted foot to the other. "I asked the cloud for battle-ready clothing, and this is what… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
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… — Sarah Polley Copy Share Image
When you write a novel, there’s a level at which you are much more revealing about who you are because you’re less… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
I'm a very self-conscious person, I think we all are, but I'm especially not very comfortable in my body. I always feel… — Sufjan Stevens 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
“it’s only when we are self-conscious rather than other-conscious that we become so very nervous. When we focus on serving our audience,… — Bruce Wilkinson Copy Share Image
You can get eight thousand great, amazing messages, and someone will send you one thing that you're maybe self-conscious about, and that's… — Madison Keys Copy Share Image
No wonder the regulators decided on segregation of boys and girls: Otherwise, it would have been a nightmare, this feeling angry and… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I started working in front of the camera for the first time when I was 15 years old. I joined a soap… — Paul Wesley Copy Share Image
There's something about prime time television and the way the song is going to come off on the air. I'm very concerned,… — Jon Secada Copy Share Image
I no longer have time for unnecessary drama. I wasted so much time scared, self-conscious and insecure. Life is too short to… — Daryl Hannah Copy Share Image
“my identity and happiness hinged. It was now outward-looking, a self-conscious performance. I was asked to repeat the pleasure for people, again… — Jessie Burton Copy Share Image
There are moments when, like all of us, you get a bit self-conscious and you'd rather not be living any of your… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I usually know when I take the picture. There's always some kind of un-self-conscious thing going on, so that it doesn't look… — Tina Barney Copy Share Image
I don't want women to hold themselves back. I think there are too many women who are self-conscious about the way they… — Ashley Graham Copy Share Image
I was raised to be self-conscious about weight. Then as I got older and started doing television, it became a career issue,… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
In standup, you don't have anything near you except a microphone. There's something a lot more self-conscious feeling when there's cameras coming… — Tig Notaro Copy Share Image
There's a certain truism that you can't be self-conscious in comedy. If I'm in it and if there's a scene that has… — Ari Graynor Copy Share Image
What actors are good at doing is walking into a situation that should make you incredibly self-conscious and frightened and doing it… — William H. Macy Copy Share Image
Everything about acting is a challenge. I'm self-conscious. You couldn't do anything to cause me to be more self-conscious than to stick… — Billy Campbell Copy Share Image
I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that… — Pierre Loti 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
Very little comes easily to our poor, benighted species (the first creature, after all, to experiment with the novel evolutionary inventions of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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