Self Deprecating Quotes - Page 2

• I don't say I'm not magnetic to try and sound self-deprecating. I'm just not. Though I actually love people. I would like to meet more people. I know no one.

  Kristen Stewart

  Self, People, Trying

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• Well, I'm quite a self-deprecating person.

  PJ Harvey

  Self, Wells, Persons

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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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• Humility is not self deprecating, rather it is the quiet internal confidence allowing you to accept things as they are, especially yourself; that epiphany opens the way to personal greatness.

  Casar Jacobson

  Humility, Greatness, Self

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• My biggest influence is someone I really don't know at all: Tina Fey. Smart, funny, beautiful, self-deprecating, also a mom and a wife.

  Laura Benanti

  Beautiful, Mom, Smart

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• The dominant type of humor in the '60s was essentially defensive and self-deprecating, using humor as a shield.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Self, Shields, Type

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Before you can be all deprecating it's helpful to be self-deprecating.

  Jeff Ross

  Self, Helpful

  Source: www.npr.org

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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 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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• 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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• 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'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 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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• 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 am a little klutzy and self-deprecating. I fit in with the rest of the losers.

  Kirstie Alley

  Self, Littles, Loser

  "The Best TV Show That's Ever Been" by Brian Raftery, www.gq.com. September 27, 2012.

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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 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 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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• We decided that humility was defined not by self-deprecating behavior or attitudes but by the esteem with which you regard others... Generally, you can be humble only if you feel really good about yourself - and you want to help those around you feel really good about themselves, too.

  Clayton Christensen

  Attitude, Humble, Humility

  Clayton M. Christensen (2017). “How Will You Measure Your Life? (Harvard Business Review Classics)”, p.14, Harvard Business Review Press

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• I was once naïve enough to ask the late Duke of Devonshire why he liked the town of Eastbourne. He replied with a self-deprecating shrug that one of the things he liked was that he owned it.

  A. N. Wilson

  Self, Upper Class, Towns

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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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• 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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• Sam laughed, a funny, self-deprecating laugh. "You did read a lot. And spent too much time just inside the kitchen window, where I couldn't see you very well." "And not enough time mostly naked in front of my bedroom window?" I teased. Sam turned bright red. "That," he said, "is so not the point of this conversation.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Self, Laughing, Kitchen

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.101, Scholastic Inc.

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  Self-deprecating or arrogant, it's all selfish. Hard as it is, life's better when you spend more time on the rest of the world

  Patrick Stump

  Selfish, Arrogant, World

  Twitter post from May 15, 2013

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