Quotes About Self Deprecating Humor

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. I have found over the years that the most important way of getting people to relax is self-deprecating humor.

Robert Reich

#4. 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

#5. You have to understand where the camera needs to me. There were times where you were suddenly aware where the cameras were, then you were in a different place and it didn't feel like the same movie.

Jonathan Glazer

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. What surer sign is there that the creative aquifers are dry than a writer creating a writer-character?

David Mitchell

#9. Im looking forward to the World Cup because I believe Wayne Rooney could be one of the major finds in world football.

Bobby Charlton

#10. The French always make our sort happy because, like us, they know how to love, they're just as good at playing the accordion, and they've made a real art of their inability to bake proper bread.

Sasa Stanisic

#11. 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

#12. I don't have but two teeth, but thank the Lord they both hit together.

Karen Cecil Smith

#13. All I meant to say is that a rake's humor has its basis in cruelty. He needs a victim, for he cannot imagine ever laughing at himself. You, your grace, are rather clever with the self-deprecating remark.

Julia Quinn

#14. I think at its best the American sense of humor is the same as the British sense of humor at its best, which is to be wry and ironic and self deprecating.

Simon Pegg

#15. It is not proper, you being closeted up here with him
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"Delphinia, don't be absurd. I am so firmly on the shelf that the maids are tempted to dust me.

Meredith Duran

#16. Over time we are able to undermine habitual modes of thinking formed by our self-made self in early childhood, which tries to squeeze happiness from the gratification of our desires for the symbols in our culture of survival and security, power and control, and affection and esteem.

Thomas Keating

#17. Eccentricities, of which I know I have
many, do not hold universal sexual and romantic lure. I understand that.

Jessica Park

#18. I thought I had the world by the tail. It took me a few years to realize the closest I was to having the world by the tail was being a dingle berry on one of its ass hairs.

Joe R. Lansdale

#19. Uttering joyous leaves all its life without a friend a lover near,
I know very well I could not.

Walt Whitman

#20. the current limits on press freedom and excessive government secrecy make it impossible for Americans to grasp fully what is happening in the wars we finance.

Mickey Huff

#21. I was unknown because I came to Washington from the West. I started covering Watergate. Immodestly, I'd say I did it pretty well, in part because it was hard to go wrong.

Tom Brokaw