Quotes About Being Able To Laugh At Yourself

#1. Okay, sense of humor: plus one. Being able to laugh at yourself: plus one. Being able to laugh at other people without being mean: plus one. Vanity: minus one.

Katie Aselton

#2. In New Zealand I think we often take ourselves too seriously, and being able to laugh at yourself is necessary in life without being too precious.

Murray Mexted

#3. Being able to laugh is sexy in a man or woman.

Rachel Stevens

#4. Abstract art is only painting. And what's so dramatic about that? There is no abstract art. One must always begin with something. Afterwards one can remove all semblance of reality; there is no longer any danger as the idea of the object has left an indelible imprint.

Pablo Picasso

#5. For me, compatibility is a sense of humour, being able to laugh together; that is very important.

Felicity Kendal

#6. Stage One is simply being able to sit down and work, if only for a single hour. Don't laugh. Ninety-nine out of a hundred can't do it. This stage is entry-level. It's kindergarten.

Jocelyn K. Glei

#7. I don't need a gym. You can do a lot without the gym, so that's what I've chosen to do.

Boris Kodjoe

#8. Rapping can be repetition sometimes. Sometimes you gotta highlight your words in a certain kind of way. So I always was a fan of sing-rapping. It was always funny to me a little bit, and I think that being funny and being able to laugh, even at yourself, is a form of flattery.

ASAP Ferg

#9. I get mad like anybody else does, but being able to laugh about getting mad is very healthy, and my kids know that.

Louis C.K.

#10. Photography has always been important to me for that, being able to make sense of something or understand something or remember something or laugh at something.

Nick Zinner

#11. If he hadn't made her laugh she would have cried; and the relief of being able to dissolve into laughter was so great that she felt quite dizzy, as if after months of being shut up in one room she had suddenly emerged into wind and sunlight.

Elizabeth Fair

#12. I find sometimes that if you do too many takes, it starts to become meaningless to me. It is hard to sustain it for me. I don't want to do too many.

Clive Owen

#13. And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that's funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there's all kinds of advantages to it.

Al Franken

#14. She felt frightened only for a second. For one thing, the world beneath her was so very far away that it seemed to have nothing to do with her.

C.S. Lewis

#15. One of the distinguishing characteristics of the true work of art is that it is able to both contain and express different meanings - meanings which may in fact contradict each other.

Edward Lucie-Smith

#16. Sometimes I wonder if I'm going mad. Perhaps it is due to the pressure of knowing that I must somehow bear the burden of an entire world. Perhaps it is caused by the death I have seen, the friends I have lost. The friends I have been forced to kill.

Brandon Sanderson

#17. Til that the brighte sonne loste his hewe; For th'orisonte hath reft the sonne his lyght; This is as muche to seye as it was nyght!

Geoffrey Chaucer

#18. What turned me on to comedy was - well, first of all, I like being able to laugh, I like people who can make me laugh.

Nathan Fillion

#19. What makes a good animated movie is being able to balance adult and knowing in-jokes and also just out and out funny things that make all people laugh. The idea that it's actually something that will appeal to a family, that's the trick.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#20. I need to know why I'm supposed to go through the rest of my life without being able to talk to her. Hug her. Hear her laugh. Watch the sunset with her. Watch her play her violin. Kiss her forehead. Tell her I love her. Hear her say it back. Why? Why?!

Kim Holden

#21. Everywhere I go, people come up to me on the street and ask me if there's going to be another one!

Mike Myers

#22. Oscar Wilde turned the world upside down and was able to laugh at it, and hopefully by the time I'm 120 and worn out, that's what I will achieve. I love being alive so much.

John Lydon

#23. It is very important as a human being to be able to laugh at yourself and circumstances and particularly as a Christian. We have to know that good times don't last always and bad times don't last always.

Yvette Nicole Brown

#24. I think we're losing our sense of humor instead of being able to relax and laugh at ourselves. I don't care whether it's ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, or whose ox is being gored.

Betty White

#25. I don't stress myself about my looks. I love to laugh. I like being able to lead an interesting life.

Monica Bellucci

#26. I think [director] Malcolm Lee is a real master at being able to make you laugh while bringing serious subject-matter, so the movie doesn't hinge on silliness, but on real life.

Ice Cube

#27. Being able to make people laugh is great, but it takes on a different meaning if they are laughing at you, not with you.

Tadahiko Nagao

#28. Being able to laugh at a situation can help you hang on to your perspective. And there's an intimacy in laughter that nothing else can come close to.

Eric Mabius

#29. Can I remember exactly when I 'lost' my husband? Was it the moment when I had to start tying his shoelaces for him? Or when we stopped being able to laugh with each other? Looking back, that turning point is impossible to pinpoint. But then, that's the nature of dementia.

Judy Parfitt

#30. Not being able to talk sucks. There's no doubt about that. There's a lot of times when I almost feel like I'm trapped inside of myself. Like if I don't talk or yell or scream or laugh I'm going to explode. A lot of the time it almost feels like I'm suffocating.

Keary Taylor

#31. I really like being able to laugh at my own jokes.

Neil Gaiman

#32. I'd always used humour as a weapon, as a protection. But being able to make people laugh is a way of not getting in too deep; it's a quick, transient fix.

Michelle Gomez

#33. A world of goodness surrounds you.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#34. Being able to laugh got me through.

Toni Morrison

#35. At my shows you have time to relax, time to just enjoy something really dumb, time to laugh at something that's weird or unexpected and time to think. There's all sorts of things happening and it's great being able to go any way I choose at any given moment.

Reggie Watts

#36. I love to entertain. I love being able to make people laugh.

Anneliese Van Der Pol

#37. I like being cheerful. Isn't it nice to be able to have fun and laugh while doing interviews?

Seungri