Uncomfortable famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I have realized that I hate going to the premieres of the movies that I'm in. Because I feel this tension after the movie is over that everyone feels obligated to say something nice to you. It's so unnatural and uncomfortable.
-- Amanda Seyfried -
All great roads are paved with uncomfortable memories.
-- Amy Neftzger -
Fashion is always uncomfortable. When you get comfortable, you never get the look.
-- An Na -
Maybe silence is something we're uncomfortable with as a culture, I don't know.
-- Anton Yelchin -
I'm not super comfortable in my skin. I have to make it work for me, and that usually amounts to making it uncomfortable for everyone else.
-- Aubrey Plaza -
Don't be afraid to go for positions, jobs or take on clients just outside of your knowledge base. It's when you're uncomfortable that you learn and grow the most.
-- Barbara Corcoran -
Acting is an uncomfortable business because you have to make yourself vulnerable.
-- Beau Garrett -
I find a fence a very uncomfortable place to squat my bottom.
-- Bob Hawke -
I have never experienced a stressful feeling that wasn't caused by attaching to an untrue thought. Behind every uncomfortable feeling, there's a thought that isn't true for us.
-- Byron Katie -
I spend most of my time wearing uncomfortable things, so for me, it's all about trainers.
-- Cara Delevingne -
I had felt uncomfortable as a woman my whole life.
-- Chaz Bono -
Even now, I'm better around people who are uncomfortable with themselves, the misfits.
-- Chris Pine -
I've gotten better at not making people feel uncomfortable with my shyness.
-- Clea DuVall -
Do the uncomfortable. Become comfortable with these acts. Prove to yourself that your limiting beliefs die a quick death if you will simply do what you feel uncomfortable doing.
-- Darren Rowse -
There are a lot of things that are uncomfortable and hard to do, and the longer you put off those things, the harder they get.
-- Dave Morin -
I've never been uncomfortable putting my heart on display, my feelings on display, certainly with an audience.
-- David Coverdale -
It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It's better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it's a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for somebody else.
-- David Lynch -
I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that.
-- David Sedaris -
I'm often uncomfortable with girliness, to be honest.
-- Elizabeth Reaser -
We’re living in an acquisitive capitalist society that is fundamentally anti-family and fundamentally uncomfortable with just enjoying being human. We’d rather shop than live, acquire than love and stare into a screen than hold each other.
-- Frank Schaeffer -
Really, Sophronia, it makes me most uncomfortable how you manage to sort everything out every time I faint.
-- Gail Carriger -
5% of women have true multiple ***** only through intercourse and these women typically find oral sex uncomfortable.
-- Gail Saltz -
I feel a little uncomfortable about endorsements.
-- Geddy Lee -
My guess is that she is uncomfortable in such an intransigent world but is unable to live accordingly to her own desire.
-- Hanif Kureishi -
You know, I feel as comfortable in an uncomfortable situation as I do when things are going smoothly.
-- Harry Connick, Jr. -
What makes me uncomfortable about [Barack] Obama is what makes me uncomfortable about any young politician who has not yet been bloodied inside the Beltway.
-- Henry Rollins -
My biggest growth has been sitting with things that are uncomfortable and dealing with them.
-- Hilary Swank -
People pretend to know me when they don't. I feel uncomfortable when I feel like I don't remember someone.
-- Isabelle Fuhrman -
When the time comes for you to make a change or to grow, the universe will make you so uncomfortable you will eventually have no choice.
-- Iyanla Vanzant -
Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable.
-- Janelle Monae -
We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.
-- Jared Diamond -
I'm uncomfortable when I'm comfortable ... I can't help it, it's my personality.
-- Jay Chiat -
Underwear makes me uncomfortable and besides my parts have to breathe.
-- Jean Harlow -
I would rather be uncomfortable with the truth than to be lied to in comfort. That's just my nature.
-- Jesse Ventura -
I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.
-- Jim Morrison -
Even the small amount of infamy I have makes me uncomfortable - on a personal level and on a professional level.
-- John Hawkes -
He [Jesus] did not say, 'You will never have a rough passage, you will never be over-strained, you will never feel uncomfortable,' but he did say, 'You will never be overcome.
-- Julian of Norwich -
I feel as comfortable anywhere as I feel uncomfortable anywhere.
-- Kiran Desai -
It is such an uncomfortable feeling to know one is a fool.
-- L. Frank Baum -
I am a very outspoken person, and if something makes me uncomfortable, you will know that it makes me uncomfortable, but that's as far as it goes.
-- Lea Michele -
I should start charging uncomfortable thoughts rent. Except what would they pay me in? Probably something even worse.
-- Lilith Saintcrow -
Best behavior means the same thing as the most uncomfortable behavior.
-- Lin Yutang -
Being a celebrity made me so uncomfortable that I would have preferred standing behind the amplifiers.
-- Linda Ronstadt -
I would never write something that made me uncomfortable. Im not sure its even possible.
-- Lori Foster -
You have to learn how to get comfortable with being uncomfortable.
-- Lou Piniella -
I still get recognized. It's flattering, but it can be uncomfortable. Maybe because it only seems to happen when I'm looking and feeling crappy.
-- Mara Wilson -
Getting to a place of comfort can be uncomfortable.
-- Marcus Samuelsson -
The web attacks traditional ways of doing things and elites, and this is very uncomfortable for traditional businesses to deal with.
-- Martin Sorrell -
Most women get pregnant and even though it's a challenge physically and uncomfortable, they generally wanted to be pregnant.
-- Mary McCormack -
Just because it makes you feel uncomfortable doesn’t mean it has to change,
-- Megyn Kelly -
In the place where you feel completely uncomfortable, is the place where you find your genius.
-- Mia Michaels -
When your views are truly contrarian, they are inevitably uncomfortable. Courage and the ability to withstand pain are required,
-- Michael Steinhardt -
You have to feel comfortable being uncomfortable. I'm always comfortable being uncomfortable. And to be comfortable being uncomfortable, I have to hone my discipline, which to me is doing what I have to do, but also doing it like I love it.
-- Mike Tyson -
If you're a professional, you'll make it work. you can be like, 'I'm not going to do that, I'm going to do it where I'm satisfied.' But I'm very comfortable being uncomfortable so I just go for it.
-- Mike Tyson -
You've got to avoid situations that make you uncomfortable.
-- Nick Jonas -
I don't like when you necessarily know that this is the end of the movie. I like when a movie ends abruptly. You go through this, and some of the scenes are uncomfortable, and some are funny - and then suddenly it's over.
-- Noah Baumbach -
It's a little weird exchanging pictures for money. You know what I mean. It makes me a little uncomfortable.
-- Noah Hathaway -
Almost everyone is uncomfortable talking about money.
-- Olivia Mellan -
There is an old saying: a champion is someone who is willing to be uncomfortable.
-- Pat Summitt -
When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.
-- Pema Chodron -
You want the audience to be uncomfortable.
-- Richard Thompson -
Show me someone who doesn't have some sort of experience that they would be uncomfortable for people to know about and I'll show you a dullard.
-- Rob Lowe -
I used to have trouble in front of an audience. I felt uncomfortable.
-- Robert Goulet -
If you're not uncomfortable on a daily basis, you're not making much progress.
-- Robin Sharma -
God, make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.
-- Ruby Dee -
As you've probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.
-- Seth Godin -
Generosity is giving until it makes you uncomfortable.
-- Shaun King -
To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.
-- Socrates -
For many, lack of achievement is more a consequence of fear of taking a chance and getting uncomfortable.
-- Steve Backley -
Follow the evidence to where it leads, even if the conclusion is uncomfortable.
-- Steven James -
I'm rather uncomfortable with celebrity, to be honest.
-- Stockard Channing -
The only time you are actually growing is when you are uncomfortable.
-- T. Harv Eker -
I'm sorry." About what?" He shrugged, made uncomfortable by the question."I'm not sure. It's a Canadian thing.
-- Tanya Huff -
I've always sort of admired and respected one's ability to be comfortable with other people's discomfort or, you know, their being comfortable making other people uncomfortable.
-- Timothy Olyphant -
Humor has become so cliche and boring that nothing's funny anymore unless it involves something totally disgusting that offends somebody or makes them feel really uncomfortable.
-- Tom DeLonge -
For me, as a Christian I will be uncomfortable because in all my teachings and all my learning, biblically, it's not right,
-- Torii Hunter -
I feel uncomfortable because I'm insecure about who I am.
-- Trent Reznor -
Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable.
-- Twyla Tharp -
I felt probably more uncomfortable than Beyonce. But I can't answer for her.
-- Verne Troyer -
As a species, we're addicted to the facile discrimination involved in saying that something or phenomenon is either 'this' or 'that' - how much more uncomfortable that it may well be 'the other'.
-- Will Self -
The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.
-- William Cowper -
Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.
-- William Hazlitt -
I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.
-- Yusef Komunyakaa -
To really talk about African story, and teach this story, you have to teach that tribes were actually nations. You have to teach that chiefs were actually kings, with kingdoms. You have to teach that there was a structure that worked in Africa prior to colonialism. You have to teach that countries were colonized that were doing fine by themselves. And that's uncomfortable.
-- Amma Asante -
Humans are wired to feel uncomfortable with uncertainty and contingency, and so we gravitate to a position after a short time even if we have no new information.
-- Charles Hugh Smith -
It's uncomfortable to just say the first thing that pops into your head, but you have to when you're speaking in front of people. A lot of times I'll say something I don't even believe. I've never actually used "pass" before.
-- Chelsea Martin -
I will say that I don't expect anybody to do anything that makes them feel uncomfortable. Or makes them feel like they're putting themselves in a bad position with their job.
-- Eric Reid -
We change and it's uncomfortable. We flow for a time and then it's awkward.
-- Frazey Ford -
The more uncomfortable I feel, that's where I know the magic is.
-- Guillermo E. Brown -
I don't tend to like race jokes. I don't like Jew jokes and black jokes, and they make me very uncomfortable, probably because I'm both. Well, I'm not black - but if I was then I could dance better.
-- Iliza Shlesinger -
Working with people is what I like to do. I don't feel intimidated. I always go in prepared. When you're not prepared, that's when you feel uncomfortable.
-- Jeremy Luke -
Character is incredibly jagged, and incredibly contextualized, even to the point where I still feel uncomfortable thinking about it.
-- L. Todd Rose -
I don't have that much experience in the studio, but I'm always really uncomfortable when I'm there. You're on the clock and it costs a lot of money.
-- Mac DeMarco -
Don't let a friend make you feel publicly uncomfortable indefinitely just because they're probably a lesbian.
-- Mallory Ortberg -
I wouldn't say I'm ego-less, but I'd say there's something uncomfortable about the presentation of one's self in the media. Any image sent out is permanently in the spin cycle. And there's a paralysis of that, the way your image is presented. I've always been hesitant, but I'm definitely not shy or anything.
-- Tim Hecker
