Quotes About Self-deprecation

It takes a lot of effort to look this mediocre.

When you roast yourself, it makes everybody else comfortable.

You can't take yourself too seriously. You have to be secure and make fun of yourself.

I am often the brunt of my own humor.

Our whole family has a similar sense of humor. We get over things by laughing at ourselves.

Comedy makes things believable. Because if there's anything we all know, it's how to make fun of ourselves, and to make fun of situations to make them a bit easier.

My name's Munzer not God.

I'm about as big a star as the Baha'i faith has got, which is pretty pathetic.

One of the hallmarks that a British actor brings to his public persona is an adept sense of self-deprecation - see Daniel Craig and Damian Lewis.

For most of my 20s, I looked like I was 12. Now that I'm pushing 40, I guess I look closer to... 15? It must be my macrobiotic diet. Oh, wait, except that I don't have one of those.

I've often said the most difficult things I have to say to people through humour. I can very quickly put someone in their place with it. But we all walk away unscathed because there's been some funnies around it, and I'll usually make sure that it comes back at me.

I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'

I look like a very nice, benign Jewish man-boy.

I would be the worst biologist in the world!

You know, I'm really not that bright.

It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.

Modesty isn't one of my strong suits.

I looked like a 'Super Mario Bros.' Goomba. It's arguably the ugliest haircut on the planet.

I stuff my bra. So if you get to second base with me, you'll find that the bases are loaded.

You are what you eat. Which makes me cheap, quick, and easy.

I have a tiny wiener.

Yeah, you're a regular Mozart...well, except for the whole music thing.

I'm over the hill for come-on lines. On a quiet day, I can hear my liver rotting. For exercise, I fall down.

This is me apologizing. I am a fool, a bird-brain, a liar and a horse-thief. I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.