You just wish you could lobotomize yourself and just do a thing that's really on instinct. There's always a certain self-consciousness. And you worry about that.
As a busker, one thing that does not work is self-consciousness. A busker needs to be working. A busker needs to shed all ego and get down to work. Play your songs, play them well, earn your money, and don't get in people's way.
Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.
Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness.
The years between 1800 and 1825 were distinguished, so far as our domestic development was concerned, by the growth of the Western pioneer Democracy in power and self-consciousness.
I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.
In Socrates' thought the two marks of individual self-consciousness appear; it is practical and it is social.
The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an ordeal for me.
Self-consciousness can destroy a performance. Getting rid of that is always good.
Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.
