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I'd be far too self-conscious and insecure if I suspected my editor might be a better novelist than I.
We are all very individual. You have to find out what you can do best, and be self-conscious about that.
If actors are trying to convey, in a smart way, the context of the scene, that becomes too self-conscious.
I'm very self-conscious as an actor, with performances and things, and I don't like watching my own stuff.
If you're the only anything in the room, you're going to feel so self-conscious of your right to be there.
I would never complain about 'One Day' taking off, but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time.
One of the hardest things to do in acting is to stop thinking about yourself and stop being self-conscious.
I think acting has helped me come out of my shell because when I play a character, I can't be self-conscious.
I am self-conscious, and I'm aware of my body. But I struggle with America's limited idea of what perfection is.
I know what I'm good at, and if I'm asked to do something I'm not - like hip-hop dancing - I get self-conscious.
I think as the largest democracy in the world, we have self-conscious filmmakers who can handle sensitive themes.
I would be too self-conscious if I just thought of writing lyrics for a song. I have to trick myself into doing it.
If I spent my time worrying about what other people would think of my work, I would be too self-conscious to write.
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.
For a while I couldn't leave the house by myself. Even if I was just grocery shopping alone, I'd get self-conscious.
I don't often see the movies I'm in; I'm usually disappointed in myself and it only serves to make me self-conscious.
My vanity is not remotely physical, it is cerebral. I suppose feeling self-conscious might be a form of vanity, though.
I'm very self-conscious having my picture taken, so I clown around. My driver's license photo looks like a blonde Elvis.
I was always looking at the ground because I was self-conscious about my height. I had big feet, big hands, and all that.
The Northwest, to make a generalization, is a fairly sensitive populace. Slightly self-conscious and very self-reflexive.
I have brothers, and that so-called boyish quality was something that I was deathly self-conscious about when I was younger.
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.
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 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 work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a pretty self-conscious person.
I used to be more self-conscious about style because when you're younger, you want to exist, you want to show everything you do.
I've been on 'Days' since I was 16, and being surrounded by such thin, gorgeous actresses made me so insecure and self-conscious.
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.
As a candidate, Obama disdained the game of politics, a self-conscious contrast to all the tireless political athletes named Clinton.
Growing up in the public spotlight and having insecurities like every other girl, I really know what it's like to feel self-conscious.
Tabloid photos capture people at their most self-conscious and disoriented; in real life, Paris Hilton is like an elegant paper crane.
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.
Never did I dream that while I was feeling so self-conscious and inadequate in the '60s, I was actually creating The Judith Durham Look!
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.
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!
Inhibition is something I notice in hamstrung actors all the time. They can be wonderful up to a point and then become very self-conscious.
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.
The on-stage Gracie may look poised, but the real Gracie is shy, a little self-conscious, and, before every performance of my life, panicky.
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 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.
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.
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.
Growing up, I was quite self-conscious about getting too tall, but then I realized, 'You know what? I can use it to my advantage. Big is beautiful.'
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.
Nick's mother and I were attentive, probably overly attentive - part of the first wave of parents obsessed with our children in a self-conscious way.
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.
There's something about prime time television and the way the song is going to come off on the air. I'm very concerned, very self-conscious about that.
I try to not be self-conscious in my writing process. I think it's important to just be in your subconscious mind - at least when you're starting an idea.
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.
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.