Quotes About Self-deprecation

If you hear somebody say something absolutely horrendous about their own life, in quite a flippant, offbeat kind of way, when you meet people clearly trying to be strong and brave, the ones who are really good at it are the ones who break my heart the most.

It's funny because I was offered film parts the first week after 'The Office' went out. I was sent a script, and I said, 'Who's the lead?' They said, 'We want you to be.' And I said: 'Well, who's going to go and see that? You want John Cusack.'

It's OK to joke about yourself and have self-perspective, but, like, when you constantly put yourself down to get other people to tell you you're good, that annoys me. Have confidence!

Let's be real, I've got a receding hairline, I'm slow and I'm probably not the most jacked up with abs and all that, but I'm still going to beat you one-on-one.

I'm a bit short on brain myself; the old bean would appear to have been constructed more for ornament than for use, don't you know;

To win friends and influence others in today's world takes less than clever rhetoric. It takes the understated eloquence of grace and self-deprecation.

I went to play golf and tried to shoot my age, but I shot my weight instead.

They talk about the economy this year. Hey, my hairline is in recession, my waistline is in inflation. Altogether, I'm in a depression.

I may be a shit writer,' I remember him saying once, 'but I'm richer than any of the good ones.

Laugh a little when the joke's on you

When your name is Twinkle, you are a bookworm, and a fat child, then you have to be ready to be made fun of. As a child, I used my fists a lot, but then the tongue seemed like a better option. So I started using words as a sword to jab fun at myself.

I have never been vain. I don't take myself seriously. I don't consider myself sexy or good-looking.

I'm as vain as the next person, but I've made so much fun of myself over the years, and that's very salutary as you grow older.

Yes. Just pass me my leg will you? It's on top of the wardrobe where he threw it, and I think my right arm is leaning over by the wall. My head is in the gas oven but it will probably be all right, I'm told that green colour wears off. Unfortunately I threw my heart to the dogs. Never mind. No one will notice how much is missing from the inside, will they?

I kinda feel like an idiot sometimes. Although I am an idiot, so it kinda works out.

Anything nice that's said about me is diametrically opposed to who I am.

I know I'm a million times as humble as thou art!

O, that he were here to write me down an ass! But, masters, remember, that I am an ass; though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass.

I still promise to run, tail between my legs. And since I have a tail, that should be amusing for everyone. Are you satisfied?

You don't have to be a writer, though, to know that making fun of yourself is a good way to deflect being made fun of. Like many people, I am hypercritical about myself so that I beat the haters to the punch. When I acknowledge my foibles first, no one else can use them against me. I've taken away everyone else's power to make me feel less about myself by doing it first.

I touch a hand to Sabin's bicep and squeeze. "You're getting all beefy, Sabe." "I'm quite sexy, you know. It's sickening how ripped I am. I don't know how any other dudes can stand to be around me because my macho manliness is too much to bear.

I feel as much of a stud as... I can't come up with a metaphor. That's how lacking in studliness I am.

I think that a big part of comedy is being made fun of, and it is looking silly or looking stupid.

I never think I'm making fun of my culture. In fact I'm making fun of myself, because I catch myself doing some very stupid things.