Quotes About Self-deprecation

I am the king idiot," he muttered, "of all the world's fucking idiots.

I'm no one you want to learn from.

I'm just another stupid human.

That aside, I read more books than I should, and I'm decidedly crap at sex and doing my taxes. Nice to meet you.)

Soy idiota. [...] Y amable. Lo que me convierte en el mayor imbécil del mundo.

The English feel schadenfreude even about themselves.

Esta vez, Watson, califíqueme en su relato como de burro completo.

If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor,' I beg you to slap me.

So what I do now is to pre-empt that by making the up into a virtue, and telling funny stories about how crap I am before people have a chance to notice it for themselves and think maybe I haven't realised.

Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don't know.

y no hay nada peor que matarse, hacer el ridículo y, para colmo, no enterarse de que uno lo ha hecho.

Klaus's charm, at least for me, was that his voice already sounded like an imitation of itself; Klaus was an actor bemused to be playing Klaus. And yet the effect of this doubling was generous, self-deprecating;

When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business; I have to humiliate myself.

I have no ego, I'll make fun of myself, and I'll make fun of being humiliated. I get it.

'Man Down' is not a serious study of the human condition: it is a balls-out attempt at making people laugh. So nobody in the show can afford to cling on to any vanity, because we're always going to push the humiliation levels.

I'm a humor writer, so I don't always present myself in the best light.

I love humour, and I can laugh at myself.

Nothing is worse than a beautiful girl fishing for compliments by saying how gross she is. On the flip side, I find genuine humility and modesty attractive.

Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.

I was brought up to believe that the worst thing you could do was 'call attention to yourself,' or 'think you were smart.' My mother was an exception to this rule and was punished by the early onset of Parkinson's disease.

I wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed, and I wasn't the biggest, so I got real good at running my mouth and making people laugh and using humor as a way to not get into fights.

And that is something else you do . . . You joke a great deal about yourself so that no one can get close to really knowing you.

I love an act that makes fun of the situation, and of course makes fun of yourself. That's important, you can't take yourself too seriously.

I started out as a lousy actress and have remained one.