Quotes About Introspection

If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.

I appreciate humor so much, but I'm actually not a funny girl.

I've known for quite a while that I was a funny girl.

Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.

People always say, "When did you know you were funny?" They don't mean that in a bad way - this already makes me sound like such a jerk.

That's a very nice, generic-sounding question: "When did you know you were funny?" But it pre-supposes that I think I'm really hilarious. So that's kind of a loaded question.

What happens, I think, is especially for comic effect you find something about yourself that you don't like. You exaggerate it, and it's funny.

You exaggerate your own reactions.

I always had a running commentary in my head that was extremely funny and off-center, but I never said it to anyone.

It's funny, people talk about the characters they play and who do you sort of see yourself as or which ones maybe were closest to you and in some ways.

It's funny because sometimes one doesn't actually consider these things for one's self until one's in a situation like this press conferece where one has to kind of think about it.

I first had a version of this at a Japanese monastery during a silent retreat-don't ask, it's a long story.

Isn't it weird that I'm getting all emotionable?

I'm not trying to be ridiculous or funny, but it was rather pleasant to find yourself in isolation, in solitary.

I don't think I'm going to get so mature that I lose touch with the whatever wounded part of myself that feels the need to be funny. I'm already old enough that I realize that's not going to happen.

It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.

I always thought I was funny, but I was very sensitive, and very provocative just to get a rise out of people.

I was married once before, and I stopped.

People who laugh so heartily at what they themselves have said, when it is not funny, dispense us accordingly, by taking upon themselves the responsibility for the mirth, from joining in it.

When anyone lacks self-awareness and doesn't recognize their transparencies, it's always funny.

I think that certain things are funny and certain things are okay to make fun of - including myself.

I always get the better when I argue alone.

I am only able to be honest. And sometimes my view of the world is pretty dark. But still funny.

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.