Quotes About Self-deprecation

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

I should have been a pair of ragged claws.' The self-deprecation of mass man carried to its symbolic limit. How does he see himself? Not merely as a crustacean. Not even as a crustacean, only the very abstraction of a crustacean: claws. And ragged, at that. In the next line we see-

I'm the most unromantic lump of Northern suet. Yes, a woman did accost me once in South Shields, but she had a face like Red Rum.

I like to think of myself as a New Yorker, which is pathetic.

I'm really white trash.

With my doctor, I don't get no respect. I told him I want a vasectomy. He said with a face like mine, I don't need one.

I'm severely overrated. I'm just above a hack. That should be the name of my new DVD: 'Chris Rock: Slightly Above Hack'.

I'm still stupid. I still do what I'm not supposed to do. Are you serious? I'm Jake 'The Snake,' man. I never claimed to be the sharpest knife in the drawer.

I love comedy because I can laugh at myself. I dont take myself too seriously.

Scott, you are the salt of the earth. Oh, I'm sorry, excuse me. I meant scum of the earth.

If I were you, I'd sue my face for slander.

As comedians, if nothing else, we're certainly allowed to make fun of ourselves and our own journeys and our own experiences.

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.

There are a few YouTube clips of me singing at The King's Head in Santa Monica, so you can see how bad I am.

This would seem to be a truism in contemporary American politics: The electorate opts for serious leaders, but almost always men who are able to poke fun at themselves - and the gravitas of their position.

I'm a terrible drummer; I almost cannot play the guitar nor sax nor trumpet.

I think that it's hard for vain people to be funny. I think you can look any way you want as long as you have a good sense of humor about yourself.

Sometimes people say, do you want a drink? And I say, oh, I'd like to, but I'm a tragic alcoholic. I always say tragic. I'm a tragic alcoholic.

I don't think anybody would be interested in my memoir - and my memory isn't very good either!

I'm one of those people who laughs everything off. If I mess up, I just say, 'Ha! Totally didn't mean to do that.'

I tell people, if you really want me to look that good, why don't you cough up about $2 million more and hire Alec or Billy? If you want me to do it, this is what you get.

I like French fries? I sound like a slow child in a made-for-TV movie.

Come on, baby." Paris combed his fingers through her hair. "Look past my terrible personality and hideous looks and throw me a bone. Teach me how to woo you properly." She snorted. "I'd argue the hideous looks part." "But not the terrible personality? Ouch. That hurts, baby.

I'll hate myself later." "I hate myself now.