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Quotes About Self-consciousness

At once, she dropped her gaze 2 the floor so she wouldn't have 2 meet the stares because she knew exactly how she looked, which was bad, very bad, extra bad from the top of her dyed head to the tip of her tennis-shoed toes. She had an enormous urge to look up and say to the class, "I'm prettier than this. Really.
~ Elizabeth George
Shyness, as I have told you many times, is simply another species of vanity. Banish it.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Rebecca held her head high and swanned across the hallway, but as she neared the footman, she could see quite plainly that his gaze was not where it should be. She stopped dead and slapped her hands over her bosom. Its too low, isn't it? I knew I shouldn't have listened to that maid. She might not mind her boobies hanging out for all to see, but i just can't- Her brain suddenly caught up with her mouth. She removed her hands from her bosom and slapped them over her awful, awful, awful mouth.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
I feel awkward, I don't know how to stand up among others.
~ Alice Notley
O medo de ser julgado pelos outros funciona como uma inibição paralisante.
~ Alicia Gallotti
It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!
~ Alison Bechdel
Cuéntame cosas de las japonesas. (...) -Tú estás aquí, me estás mirando. Ellas, en cambio, siempre están preguntando si gustan. Solo piensan en sí mismas. (...) A mis amigos y a mí, nos parece que para esas chicas solo somos espejos.
~ Amelie Nothomb
I'm so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
~ Al Pacino
I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels.
~ Taylor Swift
I don't like my thighs, the back of my legs or my chubby knees. I wear clothes that show off my legs in pictures and videos but not often when I'm appearing live.
~ Nicole Scherzinger
If I dress up, I try to wear something that's still a bit me, but then I regret it when I see that everyone else has dressed up more and looks amazing.
~ Maxine Peake
I rarely wear tennis shoes. I'm 5' 8', I hate being short.
~ Elton John
I remember putting mascara on when I was 13 for the first time and going to the shop to buy a chocolate bar. I felt so exposed. I remember wearing a bra for the first time and feeling very exposed by that.
~ Mia Goth
I need to make sure that when I'm running out to the drugstore I'm not wearing a Biore strip or something. Not that I expect anyone to recognize me, but on the off chance they do, I just don't want to embarrass myself.
~ Ellie Kemper
I'm always wearing Spanx, eating ice cream and feeling a bit lonely.
~ Sheridan Smith
I've been all different shapes and sizes in my lifetime. I started wearing shapewear as a teenager after I did 'Australian Idol.' I had a little tummy, and I was always really quite conscious of that.
~ Ricki-Lee Coulter
I don't feel comfortable sitting by a pool with other British people who may just gawk and take photographs of me.
~ Gregg Wallace
I don't know how to pose or anything.
~ Anna Todd
I do feel pressure to look good. But that's just not going to happen, because I have a double chin, and I can't pose. It's such a struggle.
~ Anne-Marie
As a 17-year-old, I remember positively dreading dance sequences. I would come to shoots, quaking with nervousness at the idea of making other artistes do retakes due to my mistakes.
~ Hansika Motwani
Sometimes when I'm in the editing room and there's a new person there, like a music editor or a post person that I don't really know, I'm like, 'Oh, you shouldn't be in here. This is too personal - you can't watch this.' But then I'm like, hey dummy, you're about to show this to the whole world.
~ Pamela Adlon
I feel like I always touch my hair all the time so I'm always correcting it.
~ Tyler Henry
I purposely kept covered up because I didn't like people looking at me.
~ Dorian Yates
I hate eating food on camera - I always cringe afterwards!
~ Rachel Khoo