Quotes About Self-deprecation

I'm really white trash.

I'm being accused of modesty, a horrible and thoroughly unnatural crime.

Nada nos divierte tanto a los chilenos como burlarnos de nosotros mismos, aunque jamás soportaríamos que lo hiciese un extranjero.

He tenido un día muy desgraciado! -me confesó, sollozando. – ¿No hubo un solo momento bueno en el día, Andrea? – Sí. Una niña se cayó y se partió los dientes. – ¡Pero qué tiene eso de bueno, Andrea, por Dios! – Que no fui yo.

Actually, when it comes to knocking the Canadian cultural scene, nobody outdoes Canadians, myself included. We are veritable masters of self-deprecation.

One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself.

I have gout, asthma, and seven other maladies, but am otherwise very well.

One loses so many laughs by not laughing at oneself.

I play piano and drums very poorly and French horn and tuba all equally as bad.

I play the baritone horn - which is like a mini tuba, and is the least sexy instrument you can choose, and I generally say I don't play one so I don't have to acknowledge it. I also play fife.

My comedy is my life turned into jokes. I think a lot of people wouldn't like that because you end up talking about stuff where you don't always come out so well. You have to be prepared to say, 'This is me, being a prat.'

My skirt fell off on stage during a performance of Hairspray on Broadway, revealing my fat suit over my own natural fat suit. I turned to the audience and said, 'Now you know why I spent six years in a square.'

I think self-deprecation is such a disease, and I want to cure everybody of it and so that's my contribution.

I made fun of myself before everybody else could, so I always got the comic crowns: Freshman Fink, Sophomore Fairy, Junior Birdman. I got all three of them!

I'm sorry; I ruin people's interviews because I just talk about rubbish.

And there I was, 225 pounds, perpetually lost and confused, short legs, ape-like upper body, all chest, no neck, head too large, blurred eyes, hair uncombed, 6 feet of geek, waiting for her.

You're afraid of the audience, aren't you? Yes, but it's not stagefright. It's that I'm there as the geek. They like to watch me eat my shit. But it pays the light bill and takes me to the racetrack. I don't have any excuses about why I do it.

I am a joke told again.

What's wrong is that I am a GIANT HUNK OF SHIT!

I can't, I said. I threw my back out masturbating.

I think I have a sense of mischief and that I can laugh at myself.

We have dealt with the Arab/Muslim problem in the American media in every single way but through comedy. Hollywood has always been lagging behind comedy... We can make fun of ourselves, too, and I'm inviting us to laugh with us - and all the misconceptions.

Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn't.

We have a history in country music of writing about the darker side of things - maybe not as much in modern times, but there's a lot of cheating and self-deprecation. We sort it out in song, in country music, as a genre.