Self Deprecation 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 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'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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• I've always been a fan of a Johnny Carson because he was so great with an audience and not afraid of self-deprecating humor.

  Vince Vaughn

  Self, Fans, Not Afraid

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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 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 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 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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• 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 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 don't think that either self-deprecation or self-aggrandizement is among the defining qualities of an artist... Beethoven could have been forgiven if his symphonies had gone to his head. Gretchaninoff could also be forgiven if his Dobrinya Nikititch went to his head. But neither one could be forgiven for writing a piece that was amoral, servile, the work of a flunky.

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Writing, Artist, Thinking

  "Composers on Music". Book edited by Josiah Fisk and Jeff Nichols, p. 354, letter to Isaac Glikman (February 26, 1960), 1997.

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• Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one's balance. I think that it's very damaging.

  Viola Davis

  Thinking, Self, Balance

  Source: featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com

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• I think that enjoying the fruits of one's labor is very different than arrogance. And when I was younger, I didn't know the difference. I thought that if you were gracious, that meant that you somehow were getting ahead of yourself. And I felt self-deprecation kept you balanced.

  Viola Davis

  Thinking, Differences, Self

  Source: featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com

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• [Dean Martin ] had this really wonderful rich, authentic, distinct vocal style. His humour in movies [and] the self-deprecation and the coolness he had could overshadow what a marvellous vocalist in the Great American Songbook he is.

  Michael Buble

  Self, Style, Wonderful

  "Michael Bublé leaves his comfort zone". Interview with Elio Iannacci, www.macleans.ca. October 6, 2016.

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• Actually, when it comes to knocking the Canadian cultural scene, nobody outdoes Canadians, myself included. We are veritable masters of self-deprecation.

  Mordecai Richler

  Self, Scene, Knocking

  Mordecai Richler (1970). “Canadian writing today”, Penguin Books

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• I think self-deprecation is such a disease, and I want to cure everybody of it and so that's my contribution.

  Margaret Cho

  Thinking, Self, Disease

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 14, 2009.

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• We live in a world of self-deprecation, and while it’s healthy to make fun of ourselves from time to time, it bothers me when I see women of all ages belittling their accomplishments because they don’t want to appear boastful or overconfident. You don’t see a lot of guys out there underplaying their strengths or making light of what they’re good at, so why should women? While I get that there’s a fine line between owning your accomplishments and reciting every line of your résumé, there is absolutely no shame in being proud of what you’ve managed to achieve! Own it!

  Lea Michele

  Fun, Light, Self

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• The author I wish I was reading right now and always is Nora Ephron. I love the humor, the awareness, the sense of self-deprecation. She is such a role model to me.

  Garance Dore

  Reading, Self, Role Models

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• Half of Wisconsinites are considered alcoholics. It's part of the culture of Wisconsin... if self-deprecation is their survival instinct, alcohol is their coping mechanism.

  Amy Pietz

  Self, Coping Mechanisms, Alcohol

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I think the biggest survival instinct that Midwesterners possess is self deprecation, it's almost a Buddha-like sense of humor in anything that is difficult to get through. They would prefer to laugh at difficulties, show their mettle through that, and toughen up and have a beer afterward. That's definitely the characteristic I've carried through me, and hope to never lose.

  Amy Pietz

  Beer, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• The pulpit is no place for self-promotion. It is a great place for self-deprecation.

  Max Lucado

  Self, Promotion, Pulpit

  Source: www.preaching.com

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• Adolescents swing from euphoric self-confidence and a kind of narcissistic strength in which they feel invulnerable and even immortal, to despair, self-emptiness, self-deprecation. At the same time they seem to see an emerging self that is unique and wonderful, they suffer an intense envy which tears narcissism into shreds, and makes other people's qualities hit them like an attack of lasers.

  Terri E Apter

  Self Confidence, Unique, Swings

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• My favorite, and the author I wish I was reading right now and always is Nora Ephron. I love the humor, the awareness, the sense of self-deprecation. She is such a role model to me.

  Garance Dore

  Reading, Self, Role Models

  "BYT Interviews: Garance Dore". Interview with Svetlana Legetic, brightestyoungthings.com. February 19, 2016.

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• In hindsight, I must have been looking for a way to write about Jewishness that somehow managed to minimize irony and self-deprecation.

  Zachary Lazar

  Writing, Self, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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