Top 125 Self-Conscious Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Self-Conscious Quotes from famous people such as Alison Sweeney, Sam Levinson, Michelle Phan, David Duchovny, Rachael Ray, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I've been on 'Days' since I was 16, and being surrounde

I’ve been on ‘Days’ since I was 16, and being surrounded by such thin, gorgeous actresses made me so insecure and self-conscious.
Alison Sweeney
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.
Sam Levinson
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.
Michelle Phan
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.
David Duchovny
You don’t feel as self-conscious if your clothes fit.
Rachael Ray
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.
Felicity Jones
Tennis is an individual sport, and I am quite a self-conscious person.
Andy Murray
I would be too self-conscious if I just thought of writing lyrics for a song. I have to trick myself into doing it.
Kim Gordon
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.
St. Lucia
I don’t want to become too self-conscious – it’s why I never read reviews, even the good ones.
Peter Morgan
We all self-conscious. I’m just the first to admit it.
Kanye West
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.
Mickey Sumner
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.
Ronda Rousey
I feel self-conscious for even having met so many other band people and artists, I don’t want to be that artist that is only able to talk about themselves and their own band. I don’t want to be that person. I’d rather just be quiet than be that person.
Laura Jane Grace
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.’
Andreja Pejic
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.
Meghan O’Rourke
I am very self-conscious about seeing myself on television but I do feel people relate to me so it’s worth it.
Sonja Morgan
I had this giant ego of an athlete, but I was self-conscious at everything else.
Ryan Leaf
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.
Chris Wood
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.
Peter Morgan
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!
Judith Durham
I ended up becoming so self-conscious that my songs stopped being about my life and started being about what people thought of my music. And that was really bad.
Liz Phair
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.
Anton du Beke
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.
Frank Gehry
I’m actually much more shy and self-conscious than people’s perception of me.
Jonathan Ames
People read stuff over your shoulder when you’re in public, and when you write the kind of stuff I do, and people read it over your shoulder, it makes you a little self-conscious.
Chelsea Cain
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.
David Sheff
I find actors a little bit too self-conscious.
Chris Lilley
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.
Rufus Sewell
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.
Jordyn Woods
I get kinda self-conscious. I don’t want to know about my eyebrows. I’m born with them.
Michael Keaton
I notice if I'm too fat or if I'm too ugly or there's s

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.
Marina Abramovic
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.
Claudia Schiffer
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.
Johnny Carson
Everyone at school knew who my dad was. It made me a little self-conscious a little introverted because I had a lot of attention drawn towards me, but in a way I guess it gives you a little bit of a celebrity skin, even though I wasn’t a celebrity.
James McCartney
I was actually always really self-conscious about my gap. In middle school, this group of girls were always trying to beat me up – they called my gap a parking lot. It was a really awkward time.
Lindsey Wixson
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.
Damien Hirst
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.
Kate Moss
Strangers still leave me self-conscious.
Alan Ladd
I don’t get self-conscious. I’m not vain in that way.
Pam Ferris
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. I still get nervous sometimes before shooting and definitely before big auditions.
Brianna Brown
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.
John Cho
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?’
Anna Kendrick
Once the big lights come in, you can feel self-conscious. How can you capture the scene without ruining it and freezing people up? You keep it small and lean.
Jonathan Krisel
If I spent my time worrying about what other people would think of my work, I would be too self-conscious to write.
Christopher Paolini
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.
Karan Johar
You’re either sexy or you’re not. I’m very self-conscious about my physiognomy.
Bobby Darin
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.
Danielle Fishel
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.
Caroline Knapp
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.
Dylan Moran
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.
Bella Hadid
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.
Sigourney Weaver
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.
Samantha Shannon
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.
Mary Stuart Masterson
I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordinary spectacle. I was incredibly green and had no idea what an undertaking it is. I also have a new respect for models because they are so close to the front row and must be so self-conscious.
Eddie Redmayne
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.
Michelle Williams