Hopefully, no one will feel self-conscious in anything that I’ve designed.

I used to sketch – that’s the way I thought out loud. Then they made a book of my sketches, and I got self-conscious, so now I don’t do it much.

I won’t look online. The whole fan thing makes me self-conscious, which is not to say I don’t appreciate it or understand it. If Mickey Mantle were around, I’m sure I’d have a ton of questions to ask him that might make him uncomfortable. I get it. That doesn’t mean it’s not really awkward.

Strangers still leave me self-conscious.

I think there’s something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose, because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real.

I definitely suffered from stage fright. I had to work really hard to come out of my shell. When I was little, I was very loud and loved performing in front of people. I was fearless. When I hit puberty, I became very shy and self-conscious.

It’s supposed to be fun. You should come to work every day and not have insecurities and not be self-conscious; just be your wonderful, perfect self.

I was a very undisciplined person but acting was something that actually motivated me to get up in the morning. I hadn’t experienced that before, but it was something that really excited me. I think I could be quite self-conscious and it gave me a release.

People look at me and go, ‘He’s only successful because he‘s got a bunch of 16-year-old girls at his back who don’t understand comedy.’ Well, they do. In any case, no one hates me more than I do; no one’s more self-conscious about that than I am.

I used to be so self-conscious about my braces that people thought I was shy – I just never talked. It took me a long time to realize, whatever, it’s not like I’ll have them forever, so I might as well enjoy it while I do!

In the early stages, when I realized I was going to be probably the shortest player on the teams I was on, it was hard. I felt like girls were getting recruited over me strictly because of their height, and it made me self-conscious.

The Who, England‘s most self-conscious band, have released ‘Quadrophenia,’ which in turn freezes in time our image of the mid-Sixties Mod sensibility.

I notice if I’m too fat or if I’m too ugly or there’s skin hanging or whatever. When my clothes start not fitting, I get really self-conscious about what I eat.

I don’t wear strappy tops. Everyone feels self-conscious about something on their body. It’s just finding a style that works for you, and I don’t really suit strappy tops or dresses, so I avoid them.

I’ve been on ‘Days‘ since I was 16, and being surrounded by such thin, gorgeous actresses made me so insecure and self-conscious.

For the self-conscious or insecure girl, technology can become a crippling addiction, an insatiable hunger not just for connection but the elusive promise of being liked by everyone.

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.

I’m just very self-conscious about the way I look. I really am embarrassed of it, because I wish I wasn’t like that.

The clothes are different: pre-dog, I used to be very finicky and self-conscious about how I looked; now I schlep around in the worst clothing – big heavy boots, baggy old sweaters, a hooded down parka from L.L. Bean that makes me look like an astronaut.

I’m self-conscious about a lot of things.

I was always a very self-conscious person and was picked on for my body type. I used to feel low and sad all the time, but didn’t know I was suffering from depression and Body Dysmorphic Disorder till I got help.

I don’t read reviews, There’s no value for me in reading them. Whether they’re good or bad, they’ll just make me self-conscious.

I was raised to be self-conscious about weight. Then as I got older and started doing television, it became a career issue, like, ‘You have to lose weight or you’ll lose that job.’

Sitcom characters, my writing partner Sam Bain and I sometimes tell each other, are not normally self-conscious. Or not quite. The best sitcom characters are probably just a little self-conscious. Deep enough to feel pain and humiliation, but shallow enough that there are no hidden depths.

When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process.

I do feel blessed to have small ears – I’ve never felt self-conscious when my hair is swept back. My feet are a different story – I grew up being painfully aware of them because they are so long.

I was always looking at the ground because I was self-conscious about my height. I had big feet, big hands, and all that.

I’m a very self-conscious person.

One of the hardest things to do in acting is to stop thinking about yourself and stop being self-conscious.

I was quite young when my dad went into politics but, as it went on, I became self-conscious about it.

I never studied directing and I never really thought about doing it, and then I just found myself in that situation and tried it. I like to be observing everything else, and I get self-conscious in front of the camera.

I really love my True Match concealer: it is great if you just want to cover some spots, and you don’t have to cover your whole face. I don’t really like wearing a face full of makeup all the time; I just like covering up the spots that I am a little self-conscious about.

Most of the performances I see on TV and in movies are so self-conscious and overacted. I would think a natural actress would be welcome.

If you think about what you do, if you become self-conscious about it, you’ve got to be very careful. Because I really like to write without self-awareness of what I’m doing.

Maybe it has something to do with turning 30. I don’t feel as shy or nervous or self-conscious. I have more confidence that I can handle what life brings me. I don’t feel scared to have an idea and express it.

I was incredibly self-conscious about the way I looked.

I did get bullied and I did get picked on and I did have that feeling in my gut of being incredibly self-conscious. I naturally gravitated towards my elders because I didn’t know how to speak or be present with my peers.

I was 26 when I went to my first acting class. I’m naturally quite shy. I’m a quite private person. There’s this really strange acting class in New York called Black Nexxus. For someone who’s slightly shy or self-conscious, it’s the most frightening thing you can do.

I’m very self-conscious having my picture taken, so I clown around. My driver‘s license photo looks like a blonde Elvis.

When you’re in the head of the character, you feel less self-conscious. If I was just being me, I would feel so exposed and be like, ‘Why is there a huge camera in my face?’ But, when you’re believing in the person that you’re playing, you feel protected. It’s about being true to that person you’re playing.

Weeks go by, and I don’t paint until finally I can’t stand it any longer. I get fed up. I almost don’t want to talk about it, because I don’t want to become self-conscious about it, but perhaps I create these little crises as a kind of a secret strategy to push myself.

I just like watching people who really are not self-conscious, who aren’t aware, because I fear that one could become too self-conscious, too artful, as an actor. Sometimes if you look at somebody, you can extrapolate from their exterior what might be happening in their interior. I’m nosy.

The early Stones were adolescent rockers. They were self-conscious in an obvious and unpretentious way. And they were committed to a musical style that needed no justification because it came so naturally to them. As they grew musically the mere repetition of old rock and blues tunes became increasingly less satisfying.

To be an entertainer, you gotta be a little gutsy, a little egotistical, so you have to pull back sometimes when people say, ‘Well, he’s stuck-up.’ ‘Stuck-up’ is only another word for self-conscious.

‘Eclipse‘ is overlong and overly self-conscious, but it isn’t a fake or a zero; it just gets exhausting. It raises a crucial question: ‘When does Concept morph into Gimmick?’

Half the time, when I first run onstage, I can’t look directly at the audience just because of self-consciousness. It’s human nature. Sometimes you feel like the man, and sometimes you don’t. But sometimes that self-conscious energy is good for the show, it draws people in more.

I’m starting to shake it off, I am quite self-conscious, and it’s only when I’m playing roles that I can escape that. The older I get, the more people tell me it’s absolutely fine to be the way you are with all your quirks and nuances, and I wish I’d learnt that younger – I would have relaxed a bit more.

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.

When I first started VMware, I was very shy and self-conscious about speaking. I grew out of this by giving talks each week in front of the whole company; gradually, as we scaled, I had talked to more and more people, and this is how I conquered my fear of talking to people.

I wasn’t athletic as a kid, and I was self-conscious about my body, but then in eighth grade I won a school contest, and the prize was a bunch of personal training sessions.

Puberty is such a confusing time. You are still a child, with all that wonderful naivete and innocence, but your body is changing, and you’re self-conscious and curious about its impact on others all at the same time.

Oh, there’s a teenage girl inside all women. It comes out mainly when we walk into a room filled with other women and immediately feel self-conscious. I do, anyway. I’m always convinced I’m going to fall flat on my face or something.

I am shy and self-conscious and awkward, so I think that’s why I became a writer.

I’ve had trouble gaining access to certain people I’d really love to interview because they’re worried I’ll make fun of them. I’m a pretty private and self-conscious person, so I relate to that concern!

I’ve always been self-conscious about my personality.

My theory is this: Women falter when they’re called on to be highly self-conscious about their talents. Not when they’re called on to enact them.

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.

I would say I’m self-taught, but Corinne Day made me less conscious of myself. I was 15, and she‘d make me take off my top, and I’d cry. After five years, you get used to it, and you’re not self-conscious anymore.

Teenage years are hard. And, having taught high school for a number of years, I think they’re particularly hard on teenage girls. The most self-conscious human beings on the planet are teenage girls.

I have cystic acne, and sometimes when I have a breakout, it triggers me back to that time when I was a teen and I feel so self-conscious – like the whole world is looking at my bad skin. I’ve definitely not gone out of the house because of a breakout, which is horrible.

The Northwest, to make a generalization, is a fairly sensitive populace. Slightly self-conscious and very self-reflexive.

I think as the largest democracy in the world, we have self-conscious filmmakers who can handle sensitive themes.

I had this giant ego of an athlete, but I was self-conscious at everything else.

As always, with acting, you can’t be too self-conscious. You shouldn’t care about what people are thinking about you at the time because they’re not caring about you, they’re caring about the character.

I was this very self-conscious, shy person once I hit my teens.

I’ve never hidden the fact that I used to be shy, even when I was 30. However, I might have been self-conscious on the inside, but I was never inhibited about my body.

It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process.

I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It’s always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren’t any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges.

I’m 16, and I’m still self-conscious. Everyone is at this age.

I felt self-conscious going out in the street prior to ever even being in a movie. That’s just me.

Let’s say I find a lot of current American fiction too overwritten for my tastes, too self-conscious; I like something that’s simpler and more direct. The story is what matters to me. I hope to make it seem real to readers, as if it happened just like this – so I don’t want fancy descriptions getting in the way.

I think modelling helped me. I was very shy and self-conscious when I went to college, and I think in some ways modelling exacerbates those things – because it’s all about you being the centre of attention – but it also helped me travel.

I don’t have much patience for people who are self-conscious about the act of eating, and it irritates me when someone denies themselves the pleasure of a bloody hunk of steak or a pungent French cheese because of some outdated nonsense about what’s appropriate or attractive.

I got depressed so many times by my blue-collar life and self-conscious about the fact that I didn’t go to college. I was always working super low-end jobs, being the complete opposite of what I wanted to be.

Western beauty is considered the dominant beauty in the world. Tall, blond, blue eyes. I always felt a little self-conscious because I wanted to be more Caucasian. I tried to get bigger eyes… I would dress preppy.

I’m a little self-conscious about my body. I love to wear hoodies because you can get cozy and eat some food and your belly doesn’t show!

I am very self-conscious a lot of the time.

Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself.

I would be too self-conscious if I just thought of writing lyrics for a song. I have to trick myself into doing it.

I don’t want to become too self-conscious – it’s why I never read reviews, even the good ones.

I am very self-conscious about seeing myself on television but I do feel people relate to me so it’s worth it.

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.

I did sketches and had the best time of my life because people were laughing. I was not self-conscious, because they laughed when I wanted them to.

If I spent my time worrying about what other people would think of my work, I would be too self-conscious to write.

My parents were admirers of President Roosevelt and the New Deal. Their parents and most of our relatives and neighbors were Republicans, so they were self-conscious in their liberalism and took it as emblematic of their ability to think for themselves.

The organization of the government itself is something which we ought to examine in a more self-conscious way – the Federal Reserve and the Treasury and the Securities and Exchange Commission. The mission that each of them has is mainly economic but should be informed by good organizational practices.

I was always the taller one in my class – I was always bigger – and as you get older, you just get more and more self-conscious.

I never remember being self-conscious about my body. That just comes from being in a locker room for so long.

If I do too many takes, I’m too self-conscious. I think I’m better in first scenes.

The first six years of my career, I got more comments on my weight than on my singing. So I think I became so self-conscious that I started working on it harder.

My weight fluctuates, and I haven‘t always been skinny. I became curvier in my twenties, but I never felt self-conscious about it; going through different periods is all part of being a woman.

One of the effects Pixar University has on the culture is that it makes people less self-conscious about their work and gets them comfortable with being publicly reviewed.

It’s important to see the work of as many directors as possible but you must not become self-conscious. You have to accept that your first attempts are going to be quite rough compared to the finished works of great masters.

Inevitably, when a scene isn’t working for me, it’s because I’m being self-conscious, and I’m not putting enough of my focus on my fellow actor.

To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious.

The smaller an audience is, the more self-conscious they are. People are always looking at each other to see who is laughing. Because the thing about laughter is that it exposes who you are.

If you’re the only anything in the room, you’re going to feel so self-conscious of your right to be there.

When I was in school, martial arts made you a dork, and I became self-conscious that I was too masculine. I was a 16-year-old girl with ringworm and cauliflower ears. People made fun of my arms and called me ‘Miss Man.’ It wasn’t until I got older that I realized: These people are idiots. I’m fabulous.

Although my mother didn’t necessarily approve of teenage girls wearing heels, she made an exception for me when I was 14 because she didn’t want me to be self-conscious about my height – or to slouch.

I’m really self-conscious if I go to trainers, so I just do stuff on my own. I go on the treadmill or do yoga and Pilates if I can.

People look at me as sort of a diplomat for Turkey, which by nature, I’m not; I don’t want to be. It’s again about that playfulness. Being Turkey’s voice or representative is not playful, it’s not childlike; it makes me self-conscious, kills the child in me.

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.

Kids are naturally gifted at art from a very young age. The problem is when they get older and become self-conscious. The process should always be fun, though.

I don’t want it to be all that self-conscious or artificial, but it really grows out of my having invented myself as a listener so that I could hear her voice.

I think if you spend much time dwelling on influence you can get self-conscious about every line you write. That’s a great way to freeze up.

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 have never felt oppressed by women or that feminism is a problem. I do think boys find it hard to like things seen as feminine. I want my son not to feel self-conscious he likes ballet and my daughter to carry on playing Han Solo; that’s all.

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.

There’s a certain truism that you can’t be self-conscious in comedy.

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

It’s a dirty little secret that I’m pretty self-conscious about coloring my own work. I just see so many people who love color more than me that I get freaked out every time I hit Photoshop. Black and white? I know exactly what to do, but color offers a million solutions to problems I don’t even know exist.

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.

In standup, you don’t have anything near you except a microphone. There’s something a lot more self-conscious feeling when there’s cameras coming in for close-ups. It makes you very aware.

Once the film is done, then I like to watch myself. I know some actors say that they get very self-conscious watching themselves on screen especially if they have to cry in the scenes, they don’t like the way their face contorts, but I have no such issues.

I was so awkward and gangly, and went through puberty way too young – I got really self-conscious about it.

I guess I am actually quite shy, and I’ve always felt very self-conscious during interviews.

Hollywood wouldn’t suit me. In L.A. it’s all about work – studio people have their five minutes with you and they go, ‘Oh mah Gahd, I love your movie.’ You just feel very self-conscious there.

I’m used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you’re asking me to be me, I get very self-conscious. My job isn’t to be me. Being an actor, people think you can do a eulogy at a funeral, a speech at a wedding. I find all that very nerve-racking.

I got my first tattoo when I was 19. The one on my shoulder is an eagle. I’d go to the beach, and I’d take off my shirt, and I’d almost feel self-conscious because nobody out there had tattoos except my buddies, the guys who rode motorcycles. American-made bikes, mainly.

Early on, I played a Chinese delivery person, and even that, which was very innocuous, felt like I was somehow betraying myself. I felt very self-conscious on set doing that role, with a crew that was almost entirely white.

If I had been more self-conscious about being a woman, it would have stifled me.

To not be self-conscious of your appearance is huge, and something that I desperately hope to carry into film at some point in my useless life – to not be thinking, ‘My ear looks weird from this angle, why is the camera over there?’

I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do. I’d be self-conscious if I did. Anyone becomes mannered if you think too much about what other people think.

I’m quite sensitive to people noticing me. There are times when I’m relaxed, then others when it does make me self-conscious.

I’m already really aware and self-conscious of my accent.

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.

I had a really, really bad case of it. Everybody hears OCD and they think, ‘Okay, you like to clean or be organized.’ That’s really not what it is, especially not for everybody. In my case, it was me being super self-conscious, to the point where it was debilitating.

Boredom is a very self-conscious emotion by definition. Interest is not. So you can actually be completely absorbed in something and, at certain points in your development, not even realize that you’re into it.

Tabloid photos capture people at their most self-conscious and disoriented; in real life, Paris Hilton is like an elegant paper crane.

I don’t even like getting my picture taken because I feel terrible about the way I look. I’m so self-conscious about things.

Fashion designers only occasionally tread outside the realm of clothes as pure commodity. When they do, the results are often a muddled, self-conscious message.

At school I hated swimming and felt bigger and more self-conscious than all the other girls – and I would go to summer sports camps to desperately try to change my shape so that it couldn’t be one of the taunts aimed at me by bullies.

I do have esteem issues when it comes to reading and writing. I always feel kind of self-conscious about letting people read something that I wrote, because the last thing I wanna hear is, ‘You spelled everything wrong.’

I would never complain about ‘One Day‘ taking off, but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time.

I have brothers, and that so-called boyish quality was something that I was deathly self-conscious about when I was younger.

I was a shy child, and when I was 13, I started wearing braces on my teeth. I used to be acutely self-conscious, and I think writing was a way of withdrawing into my own imagination.

I’d be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I.

You don’t feel as self-conscious if your clothes fit.

For me, the first fact of human existence is the human body. But if you embrace the reality of the human body, you embrace mortality, and that is a very difficult thing for anything to do because the self-conscious mind cannot imagine non-existence. It’s impossible to do.

When I was there, something clicked in my head; I found myself interviewing people, searching out facts and figures. Later on I became much more self-conscious of what I was doing.

Tennis is an individual sport, and I am quite a self-conscious person.

Somebody once asked me, ‘What do you do?’ and I flippantly answered ‘I’m a cultural engineer.’ With hindsight, I kind of am – but if I got too self-conscious about it, it wouldn’t work.

I was really shy when I was a child, very self-conscious about taking up space or being an attention seeker. I was the kind of kid who was really good at homework.

I do not understand why we are not raised to celebrate our bodies as children. Why we are told to be shy or awkward or self-conscious.

I don’t mind being goofy and silly. I love to make people laugh and I’m not self-conscious.

High school was hard for me. I tried really hard to fit in and said the things I thought people wanted to hear. But I was unsure of myself. I was self-conscious, and I didn’t really know my place or where I fit in.

I was at an all-girls’ school, so there were a lot of us who were really awkward. I was this tall when I was 11, so I was really awkward and self-conscious. No one would really have wanted to be mean to me. I was too unimportant.

I like getting up in front of an audience. It’s fun when you go to a baseball game and the crowd is cheering you. I can’t deny it. And it’s very funny, too. Sometimes you’re shy; you go somewhere and everyone’s looking at you, so you feel a little self-conscious.

Home gigs can be hard because it’s an odd collision. More than anything, I feel self-conscious when my family are in the audience. I’m doing this job which is not quite acting – part of it is me, part performance. You’re presenting a cartoon of yourself to people who know you as a line-drawing.

I’ve never had tastes of people my own age. All of my friends when I was 15 were in their 40s. I’m not actually mature, just very self-conscious around people my own age because I feel like I’m supposed to act the same way they act and I don’t know how.