Self Deprecating Quotes

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

  Jules Asner

  Smart, Men, Self

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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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• 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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• Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Christian

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• Happy belated birthday, Cat," he said, giving me a self-deprecating smile. "Aren't you glad Juan picked the place and not me? We wold have had lattes and hors d'oeuvres instead of liquor and G-strings. Anyone get you a gin yet?

  Jeaniene Frost

  Cat, Self, Giving

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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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• A conglomerate heap of trash, that's what I am. But it burns with a high flame.

  Ray Bradbury

  Hilarious, Flames, Trash

  Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2012). “Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews”, p.291, Melville House

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• I'm not saying this just to be self-deprecating, but I have always taken delight in playing people who are oblivious, because I do think I have giant, giant blind spots. It's a very comfortable place to be.

  Ty Burrell

  Taken, Thinking, Self

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. November 18, 2009.

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• I do a lot of public speaking and presentations and I'll always start with a self-deprecating joke to make everybody feel comfortable with my size because there can be hang-ups and anxieties.

  Warwick Davis

  Self, Anxiety, Size

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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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• Democrats, if they're smart and they're not brain-dead, are doing two things right now.They're having self-deprecating humor written for them. There was no humor in Cleveland. And they are not making this a Donald Trump.

  Mark Shields

  Smart, Two, Self

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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'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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• Leonard Cohen can give you "Leonard Cohen" - the self-deprecating wit, the slow, considered speech, the perfectly-honed anecdote - Tom Waits is far more comfortable giving a journalist "Tom Waits" the character, whose conversation is really a series of strange tales, learned or ad-libbed.

  Sylvie Simmons

  Character, Self, Giving

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Brummies run themselves down, they're very self-deprecating. Whereas Yorkshire people certainly aren't.

  Jonathan Meades

  Running, Self, People

  Source: thequietus.com

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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 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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• I've always at least tried to be self-deprecating when I say anything about myself. As long as you set the bar low, it will keep people from putting you on a pedestal, so they can't knock you off.

  Megan Fox

  Self, Long, People

  Interview with Zach Galifianakis, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 2, 2010.

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• I fell into writing, I suppose, being one of those awful children who wrote verses. I went to a convent in New York-the Blessed Sacrament... I was fired from there, finally, for a lot of things, among them my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion.

  Dorothy Parker

  Hilarious, New York, Children

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

  Charlie Cox

  Self, Doubt, Stem

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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'm not trying to be modest of self-deprecating or in any way trying to do that.

  Jon Stewart

  Self, Trying, Way

  "Bill Moyers talks with Jon Stewart". "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. April 27, 2007.

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• An interesting difference between African-American humor and Jewish humor, in it's kind of basic or maybe most austere type form is, African-American humor, some of it comes out of playing the dozens in which you insult the other person or insult the other person's mother, and so much of Jewish humor is like, you're insulting yourself. It's totally self-deprecating.

  Terry Gross

  Mother, Self, Differences

  Source: www.npr.org

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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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