I always hated how I looked on camera. I never put a face to my music, which actually made the music that much more mysterious.
When I was on 'SNL,' I was getting weirdly anxious about being on camera, which I had never really done before. And so my solution was just to not watch my stuff. And then I found out that other actors do it, too, and I felt less weird about it.
I don't like the camera. I get very self-conscious with it and then spend way too much time not looking self-conscious instead of being free, as I do on stage, to do my work.
It's definitely more nerve-wracking being in front of the cameras, although I'm trying to get better at it.
On my iPad, and I'm quite a fool for this, but I use Post-It notes to cover up the camera. It's just weird with that little eye there and sometimes it'll be green and I know I didn't turn it on. It's very spooky.
People like to talk a lot about me, about how I have anxiety or social disorders. I'll admit to anxiety, but it has nothing to do with media or being in front of a camera or being around people. It has to do with dealing with the sparring that I'm going to have or the workouts that I'm going to have from day to day.
Every time I do photo shoots, my bottom lip and, like, my top lip are quivering because I just don't know how to look. Then the flash kind of makes me go boss-eyed sometimes.
Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph.
I'm not comfortable around cameras.
For many years, I used to run to the opposite direction when I saw photographers.
I can't even tell you the anxiety I get from being around those cameras!
I was terrified of being on television - and also I overcompensated, I'm sure, because I know I did this in my personal life too at the time, when I was younger.
Film has always been hard for me, I'm basically a stage actress. I never felt comfortable in front of the camera.
When you hand someone a camera, why do they act like you just asked them to dissemble a bomb? They take it and they're like, 'What do I do ... I don't really ... ha-huh ...' Yeah, it's the button on the top right where it always is since the beginning of #*@! time!
It rubs me the wrong way, a camera... It's a frightening thing...Cameras make ghosts out of people.
I hate watching myself on camera. I guess a lot of people feel that way, though.
It's embarrassing standing in front of the camera and getting your picture taken.
I don't have a digital camera. I don't understand it - and I don't want to.
I wanted to write or direct more than I wanted to be in front of the camera. I still occasionally feel completely uncomfortable being looked at.
I was never that comfortable in front of the camera, it always terrified me.
My mentality is: I'm going to do it. I'm going to eat a lot of food, and then I'm going to complain about it when I see myself on camera.
