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Quotes About Self-deprecation

I have good looking kids. Thank goodness my wife cheats on me.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
This morning when I put on my underwear I could hear the fruit-of-the-loom guys laughing at me.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
Yeah, I know I'm ugly... I said to a bartender, 'Make me a zombie.' He said 'God beat me to it.'
~ Rodney Dangerfield
How big are you, really? I always say that I'm two inches... from the floor.
~ Ron Jeremy
I am like Hugh Hefner minus anything good about his life.
~ Ray Romano
A good comedian makes own funny jokes to make the people laugh but a great comedian makes the fun and jokes of oneself to make the people laugh.
~ Anuj Somany
Once you get past funny, my other qualities are so below average. It's not like I'm handy.
~ Seth Meyers
Self-deprecation runs right through queer culture. It was seen as a badge of honor. I started to feel like perhaps it was destructive as well.
~ Hannah Gadsby
The guys have told me not to quit my day job.
~ Garth Brooks
I never said I was a genius.
~ Orson Welles
I'm clearly not a major legal genius.
~ John F. Kennedy Jr.
I don't take me seriously. If we get some giggles, I don't mind.
~ Paul McCartney
I giggle when I put myself down. It's just funny to me.
~ Pauly Shore
I'm bad at golf.
~ Seth MacFarlane
Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don't know.
~ Emmett Kelly
I'm really spectacularly thick in all areas of my life except comedy and science. I'm crap at everything else.
~ Ben Miller
Fox is notorious for having a very thick skin about taking shots at themselves.
~ Seth MacFarlane
I've been in a lot of tough businesses: First Lady of San Fransciso, working as model, actress, TV host. You better have thick skin, for sure, but you also need to laugh at yourself. I make fun of myself all the time.
~ Kimberly Guilfoyle
There's no shame in being second to Stephen Fry. Unless it's in a straight nose competition.
~ Russell Edward Brand
Message: I can make fun of myself despite my perfection: I am more like you in this regard: it's safe for you to like me: please desire me: please give me your money for the honor of desiring me.
~ Ryan Boudinot
Not me," said Jimmy, trying to joke. "I don't have a price." Wrong, as usual.
~ Margaret Atwood
Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little.
~ Fred Astaire
It's true, and I was really hideous as a preteen. Tall and gawky. I used to bump my head into everything. Still do sometimes. (Kat) You are my daughter. (Acheron) Sure I am, I can't imagine you ever being uncoordinated. (Kat) Oh, I assure you I've nailed quite a few signs with my forehead. It's a wonder 'Exit' isn't permanently imprinted right between my eyes. (Acheron)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Yeah, it's me, but I like to think I looked better when we met. 'Cause right now, I'm pretty much hogging all the ugly. (Nick)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon