Uncomfortable Quotes

You wanna build your IQ higher in the next two years? Be uncomfortable. That means, learn something where you have a beginner's mind.

I try not to cry, in general. The experience of crying is so emotional and uncomfortable for me that I don't like to go there.

I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion.

If you look at the horror genre, that work is all about making people uncomfortable by stimulating our fear of death.

I wanted to preemptively make myself as available as possible, so it would be impossible for anyone to form the wrong impression and make me uncomfortable with the way they were digesting my music.

I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not me, but black people - that were uncomfortable.

Even when the attention focused on me is positive, I am uncomfortable being looked at by a lot of people - it's just not my natural state of being.

Find something that matters deeply to you and pursue it. Question. Stand. Speak. Act. Make us uncomfortable. Make us think.

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.

I think I love humor in poetry, but not that slapstick cheap easy humor, but that uncomfortable, "did she say that out loud?" kind of humor.

It's important to cultivate a tolerance and patience with uncomfortable feelings. It's best to feel them.

Leaving my house and getting on to a red carpet is always crazy for me, because you have to find a way to be comfortable in the most uncomfortable situation imaginable.

Personally, I like films that make me a little bit uncomfortable because I think you're uncomfortable when something is real.

I'm very uncomfortable with my body, and I'm not interested in people seeing it on screen.

I love making people uncomfortable, and when people say, 'I cringed watching [that] scene,' that's the biggest compliment you can give me.

And so that means..." "We have to rob the Henley," Simon said. Kat sank onto a truly uncomfortable sofa. "Again.

I'm always uncomfortable with that notion of setting people up in order to kind of promote, you know, some sort of a face-off.

I prefer love scenes to be shot up close with a lot of focus on eyes and mouths. Otherwise it can feel uncomfortable and voyeuristic.

I encounter a lot of prejudice and a lot of darkness. I have to negotiate constantly through situations that are uncomfortable or difficult or strange.

Everyone gets real quiet 'cause they're a little uncomfortable.

I can't watch iceskating because the whole time I think they're going to fall! I get so uncomfortable.

I fall in love with characters when they're out of their element or are uncomfortable and you really feel for them in a knee-jerk sympathetic way.

When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.

I always feel that art in general and acting in particular should make the audience a little uncomfortable, to slap them and wake them up.

If you are ever uncomfortable or are unsure of something, you attribute it.

Because you're a crime writer you're asked to have a point of view on a lot of things, and I'm uncomfortable having public opinions on things that are not my professional area.

They laughed at Edison and Einstein, but somehow I still feel uncomfortable when they laugh at me.

Acting is an uncomfortable business because you have to make yourself vulnerable.

There are some directors, lesser in confidence or skill, who make the actor feel very uncomfortable because you feel you're auditioning for them, every day, and that's a terrible feeling on the set.

When I found myself regarded as respectable, I began to wonder what sins I had committed. I must be very wicked, I thought. I began to engage in the most uncomfortable introspection.

The thing that is uncomfortable is when people kind of stare for a long time and point. That gets weird. Id much prefer someone to come up to me and say something.

Authenticity is also about the courage and the vulnerability to say, "Yeah, I'll try it. I feel pretty uncomfortable and I feel a little vulnerable, but I'll try it!"

America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.

I’d promised myself that I’d really work on talking more, talking about uncomfortable things, because I could see from Brian how well things could work out if you did.

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.

Sometimes women feel uncomfortable when men stare at them when they try on shoes.

Shame is, hands down, the most uncomfortable feeling. And, because it produces continuous amounts of inflammatory chemicals in the body, it is also a health risk.

I don't take anything too seriously. If I do, I realize pretty quickly that's why I'm uncomfortable.

There are places I don't want to go. Making movies on tops of mountains, in the desert, playing scenes while icy torrents of rivers rush by. The jungle. It's very uncomfortable.

The president-elect [Donald Trump] finds himself in an unfamiliar and, perhaps, uncomfortable position. The enemies he's been fighting against are gone.

I'm just constantly trying to renew and give myself new challenges and push myself to uncomfortable places, trying to get better.

I’ve discovered that my best work comes from the uncomfortable but fruitful feeling of not having a clue – of being worried, secretly afraid, even convinced that I’m on the wrong track.

I'm a little uncomfortable with the idea of judges overruling presidents on national security matters.

I wake up feverish, sore, uncomfortable. Is it sickness or is it heartbreak? I can't tell. The thermometer says I'm normal, but I'm clearly not.

Learning makes us all uncomfortable.

CNN says it did not share its coverage materials with any candidate, party or campaign and says it was completely uncomfortable with [Donna] Brazile's involvement with the [Hillary] Clinton camp.

I'm often uncomfortable with girliness, to be honest.

I have faith that my life is in good hands. I honestly try to see how I can grow from uncomfortable circumstances.

There are some people who do not have a wild past because being wild would make them terribly self-conscious and uncomfortable.

Why has the word become such an uncomfortable one?