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Quotes About Self-deprecation

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.
~ Seneca
She has often suspected that her last words to herself and in this world will prove to be 'You bloody old fool' or, perhaps, depending on the mood of the day or the time of the night, 'you fucking idiot'.
~ Margaret Drabble
I hate to admit this but I don't even know how to make a cup of tea or coffee. I can boil a kettle for a pot noodle and I've been known to warm up some food in the microwave.
~ Michael Owen
I like making fun of myself a lot. I like being made fun of, too. I've always enjoyed it. There's just something really, really funny about someone tearing into me.
~ John Mulaney
Some people are amazed at my brain, but really it's nothing.
~ Gracie Allen
If you catch me saying 'I am a serious actor,' I beg you to slap me.
~ Johnny Depp
If a condescending joke is truly funny, make yourself the subject- you will increase the number of people laughing by at least one.
~ Unknown
I have good looking kids. Thank goodness my wife cheats on me.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
If I had a dollar for every time someone told me I was handsome I would have exactly one dollar...Thanks mom!!!!
~ Kevin McCarty
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself. —James Thurber
~ Unknown
I have so many liver spots, I ought to come with a side of onions.
~ Phyllis Diller
If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.
~ Raymond Chandler
I was funny -- ha-ha, not peculiar. It was a modest currency, like pennies: pedestrian, somewhat laborious, but a currency nonetheless. I was funny, in public, most often at my own expense.
~ Claire Messud
A lot of people can be very scared about making themselves vulnerable and appearing uncool. I don't really give a damn; as long as it's funny, I'll do it [make fun of myself].
~ Steve Coogan
I'd say that about 82 percent of what I write is bad, but don't go by me; I'm as bad a judge as I am a writer. Look, if it were all good, you'd be paying twice as much for this book.
~ George Burns
The thing that's weird is that we thought it was funny. We expected people to get the joke - that we [with Andrew Ridgeley] were two guys really making asses of ourselves.
~ George Michael
By the way, I'm funniest when I'm not being funny. I'm better to laugh at than with, pretty much.
~ Jemima Kirke
Actually I never did stand up. I'm not that funny.
~ Maynard James Keenan
I think that certain things are funny and certain things are okay to make fun of - including myself.
~ Mila Kunis
I feel like Bill Walton - old and shitty.
~ Shaquille O'Neal
You can make fun of yourself and people will laugh at you. If you're smart, you'll end up as a comedian. If you're not, you'll end up as a clown.
~ Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
I've never been a goalscorer, only own goals. Good own goals.
~ Unknown
I'm so ugly - My father carries around a picture of the kid who came with his wallet
~ Rodney Dangerfield
I'm a one-man idiot.
~ Eddie Izzard