Quotes About Self-consciousness

I was a very shy character, always feeling uncomfortable because everybody was stronger than I, and always afraid I would look like a sissy. Everybody else played baseball; everybody else did all kinds of athletic things.

I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way. We can be free, but we're so held back. So perhaps that's why I feel a duty to make my work. I feel liberated when I'm doing it, and I want other people to feel liberated through it.

On the first season of 'The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,' I was constantly uncomfortable with my eyes. It became annoying filming the show and having to turn away every few seconds and put drops in my eye.

In school, I would always be uncomfortable because my skirt would expose my thin, chicken legs and wiry hands.

I'm definitely not comfortable in a Speedo! That's as uncomfortable as it gets!

I'm very uncomfortable with my body, and I'm not interested in people seeing it on screen.

I used to have trouble in front of an audience. I felt uncomfortable.

It's always uncomfortable for me when I take off my shirt. No one else is taking their shift off. Why is everyone else in these movies bundled up in layers of clothing and I'm taking my clothes off all the time?

I get very uncomfortable with people watching me.

Singing in public makes me very uncomfortable.

I am not popular socially. I am uncomfortable around people.

I was too self-conscious in high school. I wanted to fit in or to disappear. I was a very uncomfortable person in high school, very uncomfortable with my body and I just didn't feel like I fit in. I wanted to be invisible.

Most people feel uncomfortable in front of a camera. They find it very hard to be themselves.

There's almost a fear that if you understood too deeply the way you arrived at choices, you could become self-conscious. In any case, many ideas which are full of personal meaning seem rather banal when you put words to them.

There lives a man, who is too small for his own brain." #iampm

I used to be super self-conscious about my height. I mean, going everywhere and someone just looking at you - you're never not in the spotlight.

Growing up in the public spotlight and having insecurities like every other girl, I really know what it's like to feel self-conscious.

I've never felt comfortable in the spotlight. I never felt pretty enough or wanted people to look at me.

There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.

I don't really like to play live. I don't like to be on stage. I feel very self-conscious.

I used to have this jersey, it was a Kenyon Martin jersey, with a little grease stain on it, I didn't think anyone else could see it. I looked down to my jersey and I was like, 'OK, I'm good.' Next thing I know I'm seeing all these pictures of myself with a big ol' grease stain.

With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.

To have an opportunity to get in front of a camera every single day is just priceless because it gets you closer and closer to being less self-consciousness in front of it and really being human and really making choices and standing by them.

When you stand up there and do a press conference, it's a very preoccupied moment. You're standing in front of cameras; people are watching you; it's not so easy to be at ease.