Charlie Brooker Quotes

I think I'm a shy, self-conscious person who thinks he's being looked at and tries to look okay. Not in a hottie, narcissistic way necessarily.

I didn't want to be looked at. I remember when I was six or seven asking my mom why people were looking at me. She said, 'They're looking at you because you're a beautiful little girl.' But I didn't believe her. And yet I put myself in a business where people have to look at you. I think I learnt to block it out.

If you're going for an interview, you will dress smartly and look the part, that is absolutely fine, but it's just the level to which this becomes the ultimate focus of everything, where you have people who won't go to school unless they've put their make-up on, or won't leave the house unless they've spent two hours getting ready.

The pressure to look good is intense. It is hard to be immune to that and the self-consciousness that comes with it.

It really stresses me out to think about what other people think about me.

I hate the pressure of having to look good all the time.

If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion

At some point, you realize that people might be laughing at your jokes because they're afraid not to laugh.

No longer can a young woman feel at ease; for she is ever concerned with the impression that she may be making on others.

The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think.

The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.

You get stared at the whole time. I first noticed that when I was about 13. I was very shy. Being considered beautiful, I always felt that people were waiting for something more. I imagined you were supposed to have an intellectual ability - and I'm making no claims here - proportional to your supposed good looks.

Anyone becomes mannered if you think too much about what other people think.

It's difficult to speak with beautiful people. No matter how hard you try to pretend otherwise, you still want them to like you.

We treat beauty like an accomplishment, and that is insane. Everyone in L.A. says, 'Oh, you look good,' and you listen for them to say you've lost weight. It's never 'How are you?' or 'You seem happy!'

I don't know any woman who doesn't have an anxiety attack about wearing a bathing suit.

I actually used to smile a lot in pictures. I think I only stopped smiling when I got into fashion. Fashion stole my smile!

If I walk outside without lipstick, I feel naked.

I've gone through my whole life caring deeply what people think of me.

Most men are petrified of standing out in any way or being thought superficial.

My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.

I feel weird when I go to the movies and everybody's faces are perfect.

Unattractive people are more obsessed with looks.

I was naturally skinny and had braces, so I wasn't a cute model.

I'm still figuring out why people would want to look at me. Maybe it's generic beauty, but it's weird to be valued for something I was born with.