Quotes about Self-deprecation

In this confident boasting of mine, I am not speaking as the Lord would, but as a fool.

I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five

You can get rich making fun of me. I know. I've made lots of money making fun of me.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. But then he has much to be modest about.

Francis de Sales, a sixteenth-century bishop, said, "We often say that we are nothing, that we are misery itself and the refuse of the world, but we would be very sorry if anyone took us at our word or told others that we are really such as we say.

I realize how desperate it sounds for me, as a comedian, to ask you to laugh at my jokes.

The only way I could get comfortable around people was to make them laugh. I was an obedient girl, and humor was my one form of rebellion. I used comedy to deflect. Like, 'Hey, check out my zit!' - you know, making fun of yourself before someone else has a chance to.

Rick Perry dropped out of the presidential race. When asked what went wrong, Perry said, I guess America is not ready to elect a dumb guy from Texas. But in time.

People come up to me and say, 'Can I just thank you for writing my life?' And I reply, 'I'm glad someone else is as idiotic as I am.'

Isn't it natural that I should belittle all the things I can't offer you?