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Quotes About Self-deprecation

I am the best tennis player who cannot play tennis.
~ Ion Tiriac
Laughter deriding others is only too often incense one burns at one's own self-constructed altar, an altar one knows to be rickety.
~ Peter Gay
I had no job at the time and was living off the cruel joke I referred to as my savings.
~ David Sedaris
It's funny, ma'am, how sometimes you're so sarcastic but it doesn't sting. Because of my dimples. Dimples are a get-out-of-jail-free card
~ Dean Koontz
I think it is easier to put yourself down before anyone else does. Or to laugh at yourself before anyone else does.
~ Ruth Jones
I'd rather take the mick out of myself before anyone else does. I know they'll do it, so I'd rather get in there first!
~ Michael Ball
Kimbilir, belki kahramanl??a, cömertli?e inanan, soyu tükenmek üzere olan bir hanedan?n son temsilcisi, yani, belki de salaklar?n ?ah?y?md?r !
~ Hugo Pratt
In my comedy when there's a victim, it's me.
~ John Bishop
I'm not saying that I don't like the stuff I put out into the world, because I genuinely enjoy my videos and think they are funny. What I'm saying is that I embrace the fact that I have a punchable face, and that if I could punch myself without feeling it, I would.
~ Shane Dawson
I'm getting dumber by the minute," I confirmed. "Ask anybody.
~ Jim Butcher
I'm a writer. I write checks. They're not very good.
~ Wendy Liebman
I destroy myself by augmenting unnecessary self-deprecating understandings of beauty. But that's also what keeps me satisfied.
~ Unknown
I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'
~ Vidal Sassoon
I am the farthest thing from a computer genius.
~ Jonathan Brandis
Laugh a little when the joke's on you
~ Helen Gurley Brown
My most important professional accomplishment to date is the ability to keep working with absolutely no skills whatsoever.
~ Colin Mochrie
When I don't know what to do, I just open my mouth. Why won't anyone date me?
~ Chelsea Handler
If masturbation is a crime then I should be on death row.
~ Jeremy Piven
Moi?" He put his hand over his heart and did his best wounded-innocent look. "You must be thinking of some other uncouth jackass. Which makes me jealous, by the way.
~ Rachel Caine
I am such a sillybilly that I embarrass myself all the time.
~ Jodi Balfour
Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.
~ Isak Dinesen
So what I do now is to pre-empt that by making the up into a virtue, and telling funny stories about how crap I am before people have a chance to notice it for themselves and think maybe I haven't realised.
~ Emily Mortimer
Èši-a spus cineva ceva? am întrebat-o. - Nu-s decât o ciuperc?. Gluma asta cazon? era veche È™i pe timpul lui taic?-meu: Sunt È›inut? în bezn? È™i hr?nit? cu rahat.
~ Joe Haldeman
You can get rich making fun of me. I know. I've made lots of money making fun of me.
~ Glenn Beck