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Quotes About Self-consciousness

I think a lot of us often don't express how we really feel because we're afraid of what others might think of us. So we secretly admire people who could care less. They do things that we don't allow ourselves to do.
~ Benjamin Bratt
My biggest worry going into Love Island' was that I am so pale and I don't get a color.
~ Maura Higgins
I know what paranoia is like. I know what it is like to worry about what people are saying about you and become obsessed with what people are saying about you.
~ Jonathan Franzen
I get so paranoid about the makeup build-up.
~ Kristen Welker
I'm too vain to go on TV. I'd be a monster of self-consciousness. Plus, I've got a ridiculous voice - I sound like a camp friend of Bertie Wooster's.
~ A. A. Gill
As soon as someone tells me: 'You're rather sexy,' I wish I could disappear. If somebody says: 'You were voted the world's sexiest man,' I have no idea what that means. How do I respond? 'Thank you' is the best you can do. George Clooney is the world's sexiest man, anyway.
~ Daniel Craig
I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do. I'd be self-conscious if I did. Anyone becomes mannered if you think too much about what other people think.
~ Kim Gordon
I feel self-conscious for even having met so many other band people and artists, I don't want to be that artist that is only able to talk about themselves and their own band. I don't want to be that person. I'd rather just be quiet than be that person.
~ Laura Jane Grace
When we were younger we were so confident. Then when we got flung into the industry we began to get self-conscious and started criticising ourselves because other people were doing it.
~ Perrie Edwards
I was quite young when my dad went into politics but, as it went on, I became self-conscious about it.
~ Ardal O'Hanlon
I'm not good at eyeliner or doing a 'shadow' eye... I don't even know what it is actually called!
~ Stacy Martin
I'm not an exhibitionist in any way, shape or form. I don't even like having my picture taken!
~ Megyn Price
I've been in many auditions thinking, 'God, do I have to take my shirt off?'
~ Sam Heughan
I don't like to run around with my shirt off. I'm very shy in that sense.
~ Greg Vaughan
I don't want to take my shirt off on TV.
~ Matt Serra
I have never been able to sing in the shower, much less in front of anybody.
~ Mary Steenburgen
You could ask a lot of people in my childhood, and they'd say I was very prudish about showing off skin.
~ Rain Dove
I'm awkward around girls.
~ Jamie Bell
I hate Q&As. They make me feel awkward.
~ Zal Batmanglij
I don't like people seeing how I behave, walk, eat, and stay.
~ Hina Khan
All morning, on and off the floor, her mind was so scrambled with self-consciousness that when she opened her mouth her mind lagged behind and then dashed forward, propelled by the anxiety that what she was saying was unintelligible. Each time, she found that she'd spoken halfway appropriately, and each time this seemed like amazing luck.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Escúchame. Soy tímido. No tonto. No puedo mirar a la gente a los ojos. No sé si entiendes lo que se siente. Hay todo un mundo que existe a mi alrededor, lo sé. No es que no quiera mirarte. Es que no quiero que me vean. Tengo miedo de lo que veréis dentro de mi. Me avergüenzo, me da miedo que me mires a los ojos y descubras algo malo, estropeado.
~ Jonathan Lethem
I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Shy is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer