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Quotes About Self-deprecation

I think that it's hard for vain people to be funny. I think you can look any way you want as long as you have a good sense of humor about yourself. People who are concerned with their looks and what they're wearing and how they present themselves tend to have less of a sense of humor about themselves.
~ Taran Killam
Scottish people don't take themselves too seriously. I think you have to be like that when you're from a place where the weather is bad.
~ Chris Hoy
Why would you want a picture with a wee, chubby guy from Bathgate? I just don't understand my appeal.
~ Lewis Capaldi
We have to be able to poke fun at ourselves.
~ Walt Handelsman
It's fun for someone to poke fun at himself.
~ Chris Kattan
You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
~ Ram Kapoor
I'll do humor about myself, I'll poke fun and everything, but that's me and I can do it to me. I think it's cruel to do it to somebody else.
~ Delta Burke
I'm the first to poke fun at myself when it comes to the hair. I even ask the audience 'hands up who had big hair in the 80s?'.
~ Limahl
I'm not afraid of poking fun at myself.
~ Neil Sedaka
What a mother I am. I can't even make popcorn.
~ Mary Steenburgen
I'm secretly like 800 pounds and 90 years old.
~ Chrissy Costanza
I can't do most things, if I'm honest, but cooking I definitely can't do.
~ Len Goodman
I think our 'Reno' cops are, basically, if you made us make fun of ourselves at a party. That is what we would do. We would do those characters and not really think about it. We didn't develop the characters; everyone just put on a name tag and started improvising.
~ Robert Ben Garant
I love doing great entertainment, but I like the joke to be on me. I don't want to take advantage of some poor person and dog 'em out and let the chips fall.
~ Terry Crews
Ignore him, Heather begged. I do. Constantly. Jean-Luc studied the coach, then turned to Heather with a wary look. Every man in this town wants you. She laughed. Yea, right. The old guys from the nursing home go into cardiac arrest whenever I walk by. His gaze drifted over her. I can believe that.
~ Kerrelyn Sparks
Only a stupid person would say that. Well, and yet I've just said it. Yes.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Honestly. There are days when I only open my mouth to change feet.
~ Zoë Sharp
I've learned to have a sense of humor about myself. Lord knows everyone else does!
~ Debbie Gibson
I'll do humor about myself, I'll poke fun and everything, but that's me and I can do it to me. I think it's cruel to do it to somebody else.
~ Delta Burke
Of all the idiots I have met in my life and the Lord knows that they have not been few or little I think that I have been the biggest.
~ Isak Dinesen
The desire to escape or camouflage their unsatisfactory selves develops in the frustrated a facility for pretending—for making a show—and also a readiness to identify themselves wholly with an imposing mass spectacle. Deprecation
~ Eric Hoffer
Well 'Impractical Jokers' isn't really a prank show, because the joke is on us. We make ourselves look like idiots in front of the public. So the public is mostly confused about what is happening.
~ Joe Gatto
I prefer to be flippant about acting, just in case I'm rubbish.
~ Tom Hollander
No one is better at deprecating President Trump than President Trump - just ask him.
~ Michael J. Knowles