Kelly Macdonald Quotes

I'm not good at watching stuff that I'm in at all. I should stop. I shouldn't watch something for the first time with a room full of people at Sundance. It's not a good idea.

I have a really difficult time watching myself on film. I literally cower in my seat and cover my face.

My forte is awkwardness.

I'm not sure that I am able to feel embarrassment.

There are places you go, and they say, 'Take off your dark glasses so we can see your beautiful blue eyes.' And you just want to... you just want to... I dunno, um... thump them.

I got more shy as I got older and realized people could be laughing at me or judging me.

Watching people see your picture for the first time is such a public agony.

I don't feel ashamed or humiliated when I am naked, but I definitely feel it when I am playing games.

I often don't see what I've done, or I cringe when I watch myself.

Every time I fumble or drop a ball I am embarrassed.

I always have a very strong sense of shaming oneself, and you can do that a lot in the public eye, so it's best avoided at all costs I think.

I don't go to the mall a lot 'cause girls scream and run at me, and I get shy.

I'm so uncomfortable, especially in emotional situations, having to say sentences that don't feel right. As an actor - or really, as any kind of person sensitive to it.

I do embarrassing things all the time, but I don't really get embarrassed. It's like I'm unaware of my embarrassing things.

I think all of us feel like we're a bit on show, all the time.

I am a very open person, and I'm always nervous of being misconstrued. Sitting in the middle of a restaurant makes me nervous. I feel like I'm being judged. And it's funny that I should feel that way.

I would be horrified to watch whatever I was doing on 'Party Of Five.' I'm sure I'm bad on it.

I tend to be hypercritical of my performances. That's why I hate watching them with people I know.

I say really stupid things sometimes. When I go back and watch some of my old interviews from when I was younger, I just cringe.

As an adult, I have often been deep in serious conversation with someone I've highly respected and seen them roll an eye as my mouth has mangled yet another magnificently conceived, clumsily articulated sentence. In my mind, the words are mellifluous as honey. In my mouth, they are shards of glass.

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 don't think when I'm doing music. Things just happen. I've even taken my clothes off while performing. But then I'm so shy that I can't even take my clothes off in the dressing room, even though it's just the other guys in the band in here with me. It's really weird.

Normally I sit there in the films really hating watching myself. Loving watching the films, hating watching myself.

It's a bit embarrassing watching myself, but I couldn't get someone else to play me, that would've been stupid.

It's really hard to watch yourself on TV. It's definitely different in that the world has to watch, too.