Quotes About Self-consciousness

introductions are hard to come by when your natural state is shyness

She has simply never quite learned to walk or hold herself comfortably, which makes her come off as an attractive wallflower.

When I'm panicked about my love handles, I go to the YMCA and get obsessed with Kid Rock videos as I'm on the running machine.

The Great Mother impels—pushes (with certainty of mortality) and pulls (with possibility of redemption)—development of consciousness and of self-consciousness.

Adam and Eve don't seem very conscious, at the beginning, when they are first placed in Paradise, and they were certainly not self-conscious. As the story insists, the original parents were naked, but not ashamed.

Women have been making men self-conscious since the beginning of time. They do this primarily by rejecting them—but they also do it by shaming them, if men do not take responsibility.

The first woman made the first man self-conscious and resentful. Then the first man blamed the woman. And then the first man blamed God. This is exactly how every spurned male feels, to this day. First,

But the capacity of women to shame men and render them self-conscious is still a primal force of nature.

No wonder I worried about talking dirty; talking in general seemed to escape me.

I'll probably just stand in a corner, trying not to be noticed, until the decoration committee accidentally packs me into a box at the end of the night. There I will lie, crammed in between rolls of crepe paper, until the New Year's dance two months from now. Jeffrey thought about this for a moment and said, Won't they notice the box is too heavy when they go to put it away?

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

Most often the little man makes himself even smaller than he already is, so as not to be seen.

I stood out, and felt the constant touch of others' eyes.

I didn't want to be looked at. I remember when I was six or seven asking my mom why people were looking at me. She said, 'They're looking at you because you're a beautiful little girl.' But I didn't believe her. And yet I put myself in a business where people have to look at you. I think I learnt to block it out.

When I write, I wear earplugs. I don't want to be self-conscious. I don't want to be thinking about the fact that I'm thinking about it. I just want to be in it. It's one element of hypnosis.

People compliment me and if I ignore them, it doesn't mean I'm rude. It just means I'm embarrassed.

I think it really holds you back having to think about your image.

The pressure to look good is intense. It is hard to be immune to that and the self-consciousness that comes with it.

Self-consciousness is almost the biggest thing you have to deal with as an artist. That's why many artists crash and burn, because they can't handle the attention and the financial implications of every brushstroke.

I just don't give off a great first impression.

You just don't want me to realize how old you actually are when I see a picture of you in line for Return of the Jedi ." --Dr. Julian Piet (Quoter's note: Damn, it hurts most when they don't mean it. I resemble that remark!! =( )

What Jay knew from his own endless stand-up gigs was that if lights were shining on an audience, they tended to become selfconscious—and a lot less likely to laugh

My first reaction when I watched Les Miserables was, 'Wow, my hair looks good!' They put half a wig in, and I was always kinda worried it was gonna make my head look twice as big!

I can't watch myself in interviews. I feel like I look like a wreck. My mom is always calling me and going, 'Stop fidgeting,' and it's like, 'You have no idea what it's like, Mom.'