“Whenever there's a camera in my face, that's when I feel vulnerable, and then it turns into a little bit of being self-conscious, which I think is the worst kind of vulnerability.” ThinkingFeelsKindLittlesSelfFacesTurnsBitsWorstLittle BitConsciousCamerasVulnerableVulnerabilitySelf Conscious Author:Jason Mraz
“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?"” ThinkingLooksSelfFilmHugeConsciousEarsCamerasAppearanceUselessAngleSelf ConsciousUseless Life Author:Anna Kendrick
“The only thing I can definitely say is that you cease to be self-conscious after you've had to kiss somebody on-camera with 30 people watching.” PeopleI CanSelfKissingConsciousCamerasCeaseSelf Conscious Author:Anna Paquin
“I started working in front of the camera for the first time when I was 15 years old. I joined a soap opera. We filmed in Brooklyn and I would skip class to shoot my scenes. It was terrifying and I entirely self-conscious in front of the camera.” YearsFirstsSelfClassFrontsSceneConsciousFirst TimeCamerasOperaSoapSelf ConsciousBrooklynSkipSoap Operas Author:Paul Wesley
“Everything about acting is a challenge. I'm self-conscious. You couldn't do anything to cause me to be more self-conscious than to stick a camera in my face and have 60 people standing behind it, waiting for me to perform.” PeopleSelfFacesCausesWaitingChallengesActingBehindsConsciousStandingCamerasSticksSelf Conscious Author:Billy Campbell
“Under examination by the camera, a human body becomes for its inhabitant a field of betrayal more than a ground of communication, and the camera's further power is manifested as it documents the individual's self-conscious efforts to control the body each time it is conscious of the camera's attention to it.” HumansSelfBodyIndividualEffortAttentionFieldsCommunicationConsciousCamerasBetrayalDocumentsHuman BodyExaminationSelf Conscious Book:Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life Source: Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life
“When you're in a two-shot together, you can't be the same as when you're both in singles. Try as you will, it cannot be the same as when you're in the shot together. It simply cannot be. It's physically impossible. You're behind the camera desperately wanting to help your colleague. When it's just you, on your own, it can be self-conscious in a way that you're not when we're just talking, you and I, and then all of a sudden it's me and then it's you. The two-shots were probably more natural.” WayTryingTwoSelfHelpingTogetherNaturalBehindsTalkingImpossibleConsciousShotsCamerasColleaguesSelf ConsciousSingles Author:Tom Courtenay
“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.” PeopleIfsThinkingSelfJobsUsedActorsCan DoKnowingFrontsSpeechConsciousAskingCamerasNervesFuneralSelf ConsciousEulogy Author:Eddie Marsan
“There's something a lot more self-conscious feeling when there's cameras coming in for close-ups. It makes you very aware.” SelfFeelingsConsciousCamerasSelf Conscious Author:Tig Notaro