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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.

    Self   Fans   Not Afraid  
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Thinking   Race   Self  
  • 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.

    Self   Anxiety   Size  
  • 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?

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

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

    Self   Long   People  
    Interview with Zach Galifianakis, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 2, 2010.
  • 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.

    Self   Community   Ironic  
    "In Defense of a Loaded Word" by Ta-Nehisi Coates, www.nytimes.com. November 23, 2013.
  • I like smart, funny, self-deprecating men.

    Smart   Men   Self  
  • I am incredibly self-deprecating. It stems from self-doubt.

    Self   Doubt   Stem  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

    Self   Laughing   Kitchen  
    Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.101, Scholastic Inc.
  • I have found over the years that the most important way of getting people to relax is self-deprecating humor.

    Self   Years   People  
    "Robert Reich: Making people laugh about economic inequality". Interview with Paul Solman, www.pbs.org. October 16, 2013.
  • The most important, overriding arc of my career has been that I would never be self-deprecating.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • 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.

    Self   Voice   Challenges  
  • 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.

    Humble   Thinking   Self  
  • I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

    Funny   Clever   Hipster  
    Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.153, Wordsworth Editions
  • 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

    Twitter post from May 15, 2013
  • 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.

    Fun   Philosophy   Self  
  • 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'.

    Cheer   Heart   Humor  
  • 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.

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

    Source: www.npr.org
  • 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.

    Smart   Two   Self  
    Source: www.pbs.org
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Funny   Girl   Thinking  
  • I like girls who are self-deprecating. I like girls who make fun of themselves. If you can't poke fun at yourself, what are you? I just want someone with a good soul. That's about it. The rest I'm really flexible on.

    Girl   Fun   Self  
  • 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.

  • Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

  • I'm not trying to be modest of self-deprecating or in any way trying to do that.

    Self   Trying   Way  
    "Bill Moyers talks with Jon Stewart". "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. April 27, 2007.
  • A conglomerate heap of trash, that's what I am. But it burns with a high flame.

    Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller (2012). “Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews”, p.291, Melville House
  • 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?

    Party   Self   Laughing  
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