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.
I’ve just been on a German TV show called ‘Come Back’, a bit like ‘Reborn In The USA’, and the pressure of being scrutinised all the time by cameras has made me very self-conscious.
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.
There’s a certain truism that you can’t be self-conscious in comedy.
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.
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 never remember being self-conscious about my body. That just comes from being in a locker room for so long.
I have brothers, and that so-called boyish quality was something that I was deathly self-conscious about when I was younger.
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.
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 admire our ancestors, whoever they were. I think the first self-conscious person must have shaken in his boots. Because as he becomes self-conscious, he’s no longer part of nature. He sees himself against nature. He looks at the vastness of the universe and it looks hostile.
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.
I have to be self-conscious of what I’m trying to do with my life.
Once you attain stardom, you lose that finer touch with society. When you are a man on the street, you get to know every vibration. But once you attain this status, more than you, people become self-conscious by your presence.
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.
