“Some writing is a really nice solitary process, in a way, because you can be a little self-conscious around other people. If it's just you, and you're at your favorite piano, or whatever instrument, and you feel comfortable, then somehow, I always feel like it's opening a door and letting whatever is to pass through pass.” PeopleIfsWayFeelsWritingLittlesSelfProcessNiceDoorsComfortableConsciousInstrumentsOpeningPianoSolitarySelf ConsciousReally NiceYour Favorite Author:Marketa Irglova
“[At Boston College] I started working on the kinds of skills that you need for comedy. It's about being creative and learning to use your gift for being able to let loose and be very unself-conscious. It took me time though before I was really able to get comfortable doing that.” NeedsKindUseAbleCreativeComedyCollegeSkillsComfortableConsciousBe CreativeBoston Author:Amy Poehler
“What actors are good at doing is walking into a situation that should make you incredibly self-conscious and frightened and doing it anyway. That's the gig, pretending that you are comfortable.” ShouldSelfActorsSituationWalkingComfortableConsciousFrightenedPretendingGigsSelf Conscious Author:William H. Macy
“Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further business in life than to pet and worship their husbands. Even at the best they are not comfortable men to live with; and a perfect husband is one who is perfectly comfortable to live with.” MenSelfPerfectWifeGeniusHusbandComfortableWorshipConsciousAngelPetOffendedSelf ConsciousEasily OffendedPerfect Husband Author:George Bernard Shaw
“If you're comfortable with someone, you feel creatively free. Whether it's a comedic scene or a dramatic one, you don't feel self-conscious because you feel safe with the people that you're around.” PeopleIfsFeelsSelfSceneSafeComfortableConsciousDramaticSelf ConsciousComedic Author:Jane Levy
“People are self-conscious at first. But it gets better as we kind of dance with each other... it's like a date, in a way. We get more comfortable together. The best pictures are usually the last ones.” PeopleWayFirstsKindSelfTogetherLastsComfortableConsciousGet BetterSelf ConsciousIt Gets BetterBest Picture Author:Nicholas Nixon
“I don't have any conscious memory of wanting to be an actor, but early on, there was something in my makeup that I felt comfortable with. Then when I was around five or six, I started going to the movies and gradually it dawned on me that I was like one of those people on the screen. And that was it. There was never any question or doubt about what I was going to do for a living.” PeopleActorsFeltMemoriesDoubtFiveSixComfortableConsciousScreensMakeup Author:Martin Sheen