Self Deprecating Humor Quotes

• I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Clever, Hipster

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.153, Wordsworth Editions

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• I like smart, funny, self-deprecating men.

  Jules Asner

  Smart, Men, Self

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• I'm a Larry David fan, right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from the Talmud on has been a self-deprecating, self-critical kind of humor.

  Peter Eisenman

  Self, Fans, Kind

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• You know when you tell a self-deprecating story at a dinner party, everyone's laughing along with you? But then when someone else repeats that same story at another dinner party you feel they're all laughing at you?

  Toby Young

  Party, Self, Laughing

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• I am incredibly self-deprecating. It stems from self-doubt.

  Charlie Cox

  Self, Doubt, Stem

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I wish I could be as thin as Jessica Simpson. I think she looks gorgeous! I have had Jessica on my show several times, and I can tell you that girl is genuine and funny with a great self-deprecating sense of humor.

  Rachael Ray

  Funny, Girl, Thinking

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• When I read the pilot for Married with Children, it just reminded me of my Uncle Joe... just a self-deprecating kind of guy. Hed come home from work, and the wife would maybe say I ran over the dog this morning in the driveway. And he would say Fine, whats for dinner?

  Ed O'Neill

  Dog, Morning, Uncles

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• I think that Americans find the Australian humour and the energy of Australians very refreshing - we are quite self-deprecating, we're light-hearted and can have a laugh.

  Teresa Palmer

  Thinking, Light, Self

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• I have never been an ambitious person, and my participation in this industry is a fluke, but only male writers can afford to be coy and self-deprecating.

  Diablo Cody

  Self, Ambitious, Flukes

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love the sad songs with their maudlin, self-deprecating, almost funny lyrics. As an Englishman, they make a lot of sense.

  Teddy Thompson

  Song, Self, Englishmen

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• I think women have a hard time not apologizing their way into negotiations. We tend to back in to these conversations in a self-deprecating and ultimately self-defeating way.

  Mika Brzezinski

  Hard Times, Thinking, Self

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• When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.

  John Ortberg

  Humble, Thinking, Self

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• I get that racism exists, but it's not a catalyst for my content. I don't need to talk about race to have material. My style of comedy is more self-deprecating. I think that makes me more relatable. When you deal with 'topics' - race, white versus black - you're not separating from the pack. You're doing what everybody else is doing.

  Kevin Hart

  Thinking, Race, Self

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• My philosophy is, it's always very rewarding when you can make an audience laugh. I don't mind making fun of myself. I like self-deprecating comedy. But I'd like you to laugh with me occasionally, too.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Fun, Philosophy, Self

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• The people I grew up around who I really liked were quick on the draw. It always just wowed me. And my mum would make weird funny comments. I can see in myself her self-deprecating, hippie humour. I can't take myself too seriously.

  Drew Barrymore

  Funny, Hippie, Self

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• Some of my friends and family have tried to challenge me to do jokes that aren't as self-deprecating, where I genuinely express my own opinion in my own voice.

  Maria Bamford

  Self, Voice, Challenges

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• I think, over the years, I've kind of evolved.

  Carrot Top

  Thinking, Years, Kind

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• I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

  Simon Pegg

  Humor, Thinking, Self

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have found over the years that the most important way of getting people to relax is self-deprecating humor.

  Robert Reich

  Self, Years, People

  "Robert Reich: Making people laugh about economic inequality". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. October 16, 2013.

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• You have to maintain who you are as a person and stay true to yourself - that's my biggest moral as a human being, as well as a very self-deprecating sense of humor.

  Josh Hutcherson

  Self, Moral, Sense Of Humor

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• You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.

  Nathan Fillion

  Pride, Self, Littles

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• I like girls who are self-deprecating. I like girls who make fun of themselves. If you can't poke fun at yourself, what are you? I just want someone with a good soul. That's about it. The rest I'm really flexible on.

  Chris Evans

  Girl, Fun, Self

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• His wry sense of humour and his stalwart courage were an inspiring example to so many. His ability to laugh at Life's idiosyncrasies and himself in a self deprecating way taught that most valuable of lessons: 'to be of good cheer, no matter what Life threw at you, and ever to find the hope that dwells in every human heart'.

  John McLeod

  Cheer, Heart, Humor

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• I have a high self-opinion - I don't need to hide that. I don't need to be self-deprecating.

  Adam Levine

  Self, Needs, Opinion

  "Levine's just a singer in a band" by Donna Freydkin, usatoday30.usatoday.com. June 25, 2012.

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• I have not taken my good looks seriously from the beginning. When I would be teased by my friends about my looks, I would just make a self-deprecating remark and let it pass.

  Arjun Rampal

  Taken, Self, Would Be

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