Quotes About Self-deprecation

The more you make fun of yourself and don't try to go for any kind of respect, the more people seem to respect you.

If you can't laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at?

Inviting people to laugh with you while you are laughing at yourself is a good thing to do. You may be a fool but you're the fool in charge.

I am a single, useless snail-loathing datum.

Unfortunately, it hurts all three of my feelings.

I don't want to make anyone else look stupid. That's a privilege I reserve for myself.

Maybe I shouldn't have given the guy who pumped my stomach my phone number, but who cares? My life is over anyway.

I had so much lip gloss on you might have slid off and broken your own lips if you tried to kiss me.

When I was initially approached about going to Comic-Con, the giant comic book convention, I said, 'I wouldn't be caught dead at one of those has-been roundups." But, as it turns out, I've been caught alive at those roundups often enough to wish I was dead.

I thought for a moment, searching for a funny reply. What to say? Make him laugh! Make him like me! Oh, please make him like me! Then everything will be fine or thereabouts. But no punch lines came to deliver that body blow that would reignite the blaze of his smile. What a jerk I was. I've always been a jerk and always will be. He hates me now and thinks I'm boring and stupid.

You're an idiot." "I've never claimed to be otherwise.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. But then he has much to be modest about.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

Bella: Then why are you wearing that bandage like a sash? Phury: It makes my ass look smaller.

I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?

If you learn how to make fun of yourself, your ego will go down.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

I'm quite obviously not the world's most handsome man - I'm the second world's most handsome man!

I'm a meathead, man. You've got smart people, and you've got dumb people. I just happen to be dumb.

Oh, I was an ugly kid. My old man took me to the zoo. They thanked him for returning me.

I couldn't buy the lice off a sick cat, the cabbie answered from the very depths of self-deprecation.

I never engage negatively with reviewers. If someone says something that enrages me, I do what I do on stage. I make a joke about myself and move on. Sometimes people say things that are manifestly wrong or even apparently malicious. That's fine, too. It's a response.

She calls me Aquaman, which is kind of embarrassing, having your daughter call you the name of a canceled show. When she's being a little smarty-pants, she calls me Justin.

My looks by then had in any case declined to the point where only women would go to bed with me.