Natalie Portman Quotes

Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do you lose that? What's the trick?

I am very self-conscious a lot of the time.

I was so self -conscious, every time football players went into a huddle, I thought they were talking about me.

Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.

I think most of us become self-critical as soon as we become self-conscious.

...self-consciousness is a man's worst enemy.

I hope people don't get tired of looking at me.

I was a really nervous kid. I was extremely sensitive. Incredibly perceptive.

Sometimes I think I'm the craziest person on the planet.

I am a very neurotic person all the time.

I'm a very self-conscious person.

I'm tugging at my hair. I'm pulling at my clothes. I'm trying to keep my cool, I know it shows. I'm staring at my feet. My cheeks are turning red. I'm searching for the words inside my head. I'm feeling nervous trying to be perfect, 'cause I know you're worth it.

I really can't watch myself. I just get too in my head about it and start overthinking everything.

Insecurity is not just a state of mind.

Why is failure the first thing I think of when I find myself in this sort of situation? Why can't I just enjoy myself? But if you have to ask the question, then you know you're lost: self-consciousness is a man's worst enemy. Already I'm wondering whether she's as aware of my erection as I am.

I tend to scare myself.

Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I'd hide my face in the dark, I wouldn't want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried everyday.

I'm a bad interview because I want to always feel like I'm being totally honest, but at the same time, I'm absolutely paranoid. That combination results in a lot of spaces.

Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.

If we fear the unknown then surely we fear ourselves.

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'm one of the world's most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

I'm a very self-conscious person; I think we all are, but I'm especially not very comfortable in my body. I always feel really weird and awkward on the street or on the stage. It has nothing to do with circumstances; it's just an ongoing psychological state, like white noise.

I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say.

I'm, like, the most terrible person to go to a party with in the world, because I just can't enjoy it. I'm just thinking all the time about what it means and what the implications are.