Quotes About Self-consciousness

But Sally didn't have the heart to fight back. She wore dark clothes and tried not to be noticed. She pretended she wasn't smart and never raised her hand in class. She disguised her own nature so well that after a while she grew uncertain of her own abilities.

His presence made me feel self-concious: of my appearance, of the way I was sitting, of my movements and gestures...It was the behavior of a woman reacting to a man who attracts her.

One thing I realize now is that you only advertise your beliefs with a t-shirt if you're seriously insecure.

Everyone gets the feeling that they know you and they know your life, and I felt really embarrassed by that.

Summer is a drag because even normal people become obsessed with their bodies. A bad bathing suit can humiliate you more tan anything else in life.

There are times I wish I were invisible. Which is silly, since I do everything I can to stand out.

All my life I've tried to hide my height. I was taller than everybody else and stood out, so I would slouch and try to hide it.

How annoyed I am with Society for wasting my time by making homosexuality criminal. The subterfuges, the self-consciousness that might have been avoided

He remained in the grip of a certain devil whom the modern world knows as self-consciousness, and whom the medieval, with dimmer vision, worshipped as asceticism

Spirituality is... the awareness that survival is the savage fight between you and yourself.

It is not so fun being asked how tall you are all the time.

I was so awkward and gangly, and went through puberty way too young - I got really self-conscious about it.

I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, its self-consciousness. And if you have one eye on the mirror to see how you're doing, you're not doing it as well as you can. Don't think about publishing, don't think about editors, don't think about marketplace.

Inevitably, when a scene isn't working for me, it's because I'm being self-conscious, and I'm not putting enough of my focus on my fellow actor.

I don't like my feet. I'm not crazy about anybody's feet. But I have flat feet.

I wasn't absolutely too sure where the Falklands was, and I didn't want to make a bloody fool of myself.

I have a past of making a fool of myself.

I think we all fear appearing foolish in public. We don't want to be laughed at.

I feel like I have a big forehead.

I feel that I would perform really well if there was no camera in front of me. But when there is one, and the director says 'Action!' I freeze.

Once the big lights come in, you can feel self-conscious. How can you capture the scene without ruining it and freezing people up? You keep it small and lean.

It's frightening to be facing an audience. There is always the fear of what they think of you, what they are saying about you.

One consolation of age is that you no longer think that everyone is staring at you, probably because they aren't.

You have to understand, when you're 15 and you're doing this Steven Spielberg movie with megastars - Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Julia Roberts - you know you want to be cool. I don't know how cool I'm going to look with my belly button out!