Quotes About Self-conscious

I'm the most awkward man alive.

I'm awkward under the limelight.

I'm a bit awkward.

We're just so self-conscious. However much we try not to be, on some level, especially as a woman and an actress, you have so much pressure when it comes your hair and the bags under your eyes and your skin.

I'm pale-skinned so I don't feel at my best on a beach.

Actors, by very definition, we want people to pay attention to us, and so usually, that comes in the package of insecurity. So if we're not comfortable, we don't really show you a lot.

You ask people what their ethnicity is, and a lot of Scots-Irish people either don't know or if they know it they just don't acknowledge it. It's not something they really identify with. They're just plain old Americans, plain vanilla. I don't think they are a self-conscious voting bloc.

I had been kind of quite porky and happy at boarding school and not self-conscious at all; then, suddenly, I found myself in auditions being examined, and it made me angry.

I had a go with Botox but looked both scared and surprised at the same time. I don't like to be either.

But let me be honest, I would rather wear a hazmat suit on holiday than get caught by a camera in swimwear.

The thing is hats don't really suit me because my head's too big, so I always just end up looking like an idiot. So I tend not to wear hats.

If I get back into theater, I think I'd want to do a play. I enjoy singing, but it beats me up a bit. I get super paranoid and self-conscious about my voice.

I'm super shy, especially at parties.

If you're OK with being clumsy, it's funny. But if you are super embarrassed, people are going to laugh at you.

I believe in having fun first, and along the way, if you teach people, if you influence people, well and good. But I don't want to set out to influence people. I don't want to set out to change the world in any self-conscious way. That way leads to self-destruction; that way, you're pontificating, and that's dangerous and it's boring - you're going to put people right to sleep.

For Arthur, who could usually contrive to feel self-conscious if left alone for long enough with a Swiss cheese plant, the moment was one of sustained revelation. He felt on the sudden like a cramped and zoo-born animal who wakes one morning to find the door to his cage hanging quietly open and the savanna stretching gray and pink to the distant rising sun, while all around new sounds are waking.

For Arthur, who could usually contrive to feel self-conscious if left alone for long enough with a Swiss cheese plant, the moment was one of sustained revelation.

She was obviously wearing her best clothes and had the self-conscious, wooden smile on her face that so often disfigures the expression in posed photography, and makes a snapshot preferable.

I was awkward-looking with huge brown eyes, dark brown, pencil-straight hair styled into an old-school Romanian bowl haircut from the 1980s. And I was very, very small. I was always the tiniest kid on my street and in my classes at school... The gym was the one place I didn't have to worry about feeling awkward for being so petite.

My awkward phase can be summed up in three words: Clear. Braces. College.

I find still photographs make me quite self-conscious.

Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine.

I didn't like the way I looked in pictures - when I saw myself on a digital camera, I was like, 'Eesh.'

I actually find it really hard to deal with people looking up to me or being interested in wanting a picture.