Quotes About Self-deprecation

In addition to comedy, I'm a writer. I write checks. They're not very good.

My name is Adam Sandler. I'm not particularly talented. I'm not particularly good-looking. And yet I'm a multi-millionaire.

It feels good. It's not bad for somebody who can't shoot.

He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure.

If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself.

My doctor said I look like a million dollars - green and wrinkled.

Sometimes, when I'm feeling down because nothing seems to be going right, I like to take a home pregnancy test. Then I can say, 'Hey, at least I'm not pregnant.'

I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong.

My headshot is a scratch and sniff, it smells like failure and onions.

I'm not a sexy guy. I went to a hooker. I dropped my pants. She dropped her price.

I'm the munter of my friends. I've got wonky teeth and a lazy eye. My friend Rob is disgusted I'm a heart-throb.

Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.

What a dog I got, he found out we look alike, so he killed himself.

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

There's only one thing wrong with my wife's face - it shows.

I'm making fun of myself and I think I'm making fun of all men in our desperate, desperate attempt to understand the people we're with and hopefully through humor have them understand us.

The dominant type of humor in the '60s was essentially defensive and self-deprecating, using humor as a shield.

You might as well laugh at yourself, everyone else is.

Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.

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.

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 two heads are better than one, then what about double chins? On that note, I will help myself to seconds.

I was blessed with a strong arm and a weak mind.

I'm just a dumb guitar player, man.