Photography Anxiety Quotes

I'm not crazy about having my picture taken. I'd rather talk my head off.

I went on tour with the Rolling Stones in 1972 for two or three cities. And in 1975, I was the tour photographer for the Rolling Stones. I hung onto my camera for dear life. Because it scared the hell out of me.

... I'm sort of a nervous person with the camera, so I will just shoot arbitrarily until I can focus and compose something, and then I make a shot. So generally, in [the] proof sheets, there are only three or four really concentrated efforts to take a photograph. It's not like a professional kind of person who sets it up so every photograph looks really cool.

I've photographed a lot of my good girlfriends, and it's given me a lot of anxiety because I don't want to let them down.

I don't want to be myself, ever. I'm terrible at a snapshot. Terrible. I blink all the time. I've got facial Tourette's. Unless I'm working and in that zone, I'm not very good at pictures, really.

I'm self-conscious in photo shoots. I much prefer to do interviews and talk about the work.

It got to the point where I started hiding because I didn't want to be photographed. (On living with Robert Mapplethorpe)

I used to have the most visceral response to having my photo taken. I felt like instantly bursting into tears and running out of the room. I hated all the attention, which is such a stupid thing for an actor to say.

When I was young, around 5, I was crying in all the pictures of me. I did not like the flash; it scared me!

I'm pretty used to people not liking having their picture taken. I mean, if you do like to have your picture taken, I worry about you.

I wish I don't tan. I dread the thought of shooting on the beach.

Somebody could take a picture of me from across the room, and I would feel like I wanted to rip their face off.

Certainly, people feel awkward when they have their photograph taken. They want to see it, but they don't want to see it.

It's not a lack of confidence, because I can't argue with the fact that I've taken some good pictures. But it's just a raw fear that you've taken the last one.

I've always been intimidated by the technicalities of taking photos, especially with a film camera - not just a point and shoot.

Sometimes when I'm being photographed, I hear the voice of this photographer who told me when I was about six while he was taking my school photo that I didn't have a nice smile, and I shouldn't smile in photos.

Sometimes a camera comes out and people freeze up a little, and I'm like that with normal cameras, but with a film camera, I feel different.

I say no to photographs. When people take my picture, I feel like they've taken a piece of me, and I can't get that back. It's soul-draining.

I really do believe the camera steals the soul. But that may be because I'm worried about my soul. I don't have much of a soul to begin with; I can't afford to lose much.

For me, taking photographs is such a tortured process. I'm always feeling like I'm not getting enough: I'm in the wrong place, the light isn't good, the subject's not comfortable.

I find still photographs make me quite self-conscious.

I’m just trying to not be in stupid gossip magazines, basically, and I think the best way to do it is never be photographed ever. As I get older, I just get more and more and more self-conscious about getting photographed. I don’t know why. I’ve done it too many times and now I feel like everyone can see through me.