Quotes About Self-deprecation

The author I wish I was reading right now and always is Nora Ephron. I love the humor, the awareness, the sense of self-deprecation. She is such a role model to me.

Oh, Mr Norrell! Such a noodle I am upon occasion!

There aren't enough words in the English language to express how badly I stink at sports.

Simplesmente bebia uma genebra de um só trago e chamava a si mesmo de cretino.

As I've said before, and I still hold to, I truly am the most boring person alive. And if there was a great investigation to be found at the end of the resume, it would be, the most boring person alive.

I'm Irish. I don't know how to take a compliment.

Now Jack Charlton wasn't wrong, I was a bad footballer.

If you had to say in one sentence what being Jewish means, it is being able to make fun of yourself Jewishly.

I don't mind being the brunt of a joke, so long as it's a good one.

Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself.

I'm not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn't really bother me.

I laughed, even if I was the butt of the joke.

I don't mind being the butt of the joke... It doesn't really bother me. I quite enjoy it.

I have some bad feet. But really, my main fault would probably be my personality. A lot of times, I am not serious enough. I joke around too much sometimes.

I could always take a joke. I could always be the butt of the joke. I could always hand it out. That was just who I was.

Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.

Almost anything makes me laugh, especially jokes at my own expense. And I will never, ever admit to being ticklish anywhere.

I told jokes badly.

I realize how desperate it sounds for me, as a comedian, to ask you to laugh at my jokes.

I always say to people that Zimbabweans are the funniest people in Africa; we even laugh at funerals. And it's true. I mean, there are so many jokes about funerals. There are so many jokes about AIDS. We find ways of coping with pain by laughing at it and by laughing at ourselves.

Personally - and I don't mean to brag - my jokes have been falling flat for most of my life.

One of the great things about us Jews is that we tell the best jokes. Part of the reason is we tell jokes against ourselves - before anyone else gets to do it.

Rob and I both have this strange sense of comedy which always involves us being the butt of our own jokes.

I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.