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 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'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'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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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'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 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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• 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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• Early on when I started talking about my weight, it was self-deprecating; everything was a joke.

  Gabriel Iglesias

  Self, Talking, Weight

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• You learn to laugh at yourself and you also lean on comedy as a crutch to kind of take the edge off because comedians often are self-deprecating and they cross lines that they shouldn't. Stuff like that brings a smile to my face every once in a while when needed.

  John Cena

  Self, Laughing, Comedian

  "CS Interview: WWE Superstar John Cena Slams Amy Schumer in Trainwreck". Interview with Edward Douglas, www.comingsoon.net. July 14, 2015.

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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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• It really is easy to forget the unpleasant if we simply refuse to recall it. Withdraw only positive thoughts from your memory bank. Let the others fade away. And your confidence, that feeling of being on top of the world, will zoom up-ward. You take a big step forward toward conquering your fear when you refuse to remember negative, self-deprecating thoughts.

  David J. Schwartz

  Happiness, Memories, Self

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• The most important, overriding arc of my career has been that I would never be self-deprecating.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Self, Careers, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Humans also tend to find community to be pleasurable, and within the boundaries of community relationships, words - often ironic and self-deprecating - are always spoken that take on other meanings when uttered by others.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  Self, Community, Ironic

  "In Defense of a Loaded Word" by Ta-Nehisi Coates, www.nytimes.com. November 23, 2013.

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