Quotes About Self-consciousness

Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.

Who can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have about him, until that fabric of opinion is threatened with ruin?

Mr. Casaubon had never had a strong bodily frame, and his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out of self-consciousness into passionate delight; it went on fluttering in the swampy ground where it was hatched, thinking of its wings and never flying.

It is wonderful how much uglier things will look when we only suspect that we are blamed for them

Every nerve and muscle in Rosamond was adjusted to the consciousness that she was being looked at. She was by nature an actress of parts that entered into her physique: she even acted her own character, and so well, that she did not know it to be precisely her own.)

I don't think I could do what Woody Allen or Clint Eastwood or Ben Stiller do, where they direct a movie and they star in it. I would just be like, 'Oh, I don't even want to look at my face.'

I was so embarrassed about mispronouncing words. I just knew how to smile.

I can't work out in front of so many people, that's why I don't go to gym.

I've had social anxiety forever - I don't thrive in social or party settings.

Chris was very comfortable in the public eye and thrived in that kind of environment. I, less so.

I was just so blatantly shy throughout my life.

I always wore a hat. They were gonna throw me out of high school because I wouldn't take my hat off. But it was just a deep insecurity about my awful hair.

I am as it is a very shy person, so for me to be able to have something bright and intelligent to say every time a microphone is thrust in front of me, it's very intimidating.

It's important for a dancer to wear very tight underpants. I used to feel a bit exposed if I wasn't being held up in the right place.

First up was Nancy's pervasive sense of guilt. She felt self-conscious about going beyond her family's expectations, and feared being seen as "too big for her britches," a typical complaint in her family about anyone who was successful. As a result, Nancy was constantly trying to prove she didn't think she was better than anyone else. This made it almost impossible for her to say no.

For three thousand years everyone has tried to find a word to differentiate man from other animals; some of the ancients called him the laughing animal, some the moral animal. Well, I wonder if he isn't the embarrassed animal...

The more aware you are of yourself, the less outside influences can affect you. The less aware you are of yourself and the less attention you consciously pay to who you are, the more energy can affect you.

Everyone's projecting onto you, or you feel like everyone is judging you. I feel like I'm being judged a lot of the time. You become really self-conscious.

I like talking. I didn't know at the time I would have to worry so much about my hair.

I was regarded as the school freak which further reinforced a lot of inhibitions and doubts I had about myself. I was a shy, frightened teenager for a long time.

I think that we are supernatural. We are unique. We're the only animals in the universe that we know of that actually have self-consciousness, a sense of time and our own mortality.

If you asked me to go back to being 14 or 15, I couldn't - it was a terrifying time. I was so awkward in my own skin. I used to hide behind my hair because I was so ridiculously self-conscious.

There was a point in time where the thought of people even talking about me made me anxious. Physically.

Shyness is a curious thing, because, like quicksand, it can strike people at any time, and also, like quicksand, it usually makes its victims look down.