Self Deprecating Quotes

Self-deprecating humor. What a refined art form!

You take yourself, this complex creature full of flaws and mistakes, and put it under the microscope… then under the spotlight, and maybe even a cold shower if the audience demands it.

It's a great way to break the ice. To tell everyone: "Hey, I'm a bit messed up, just like all of you!" And that makes people feel comfortable, and you? You escape harsh judgment because you beat them to it.

This kind of intelligent humor requires genuine confidence; it's not a weakness, but a strength, and these quotes delve into the world of self-deprecation, humility, and playful self-mockery.

Quote by Mitch Hedberg: The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall....
Quote by Dolly Parton: I do have big tits. Always had 'em - pushed 'em up, whacked 'em around. Why not make fun of 'em? I'v...
Quote by Rodney Dangerfield: The shape I'm in, I could donate my body to science fiction....
Quote by Rodney Dangerfield: When I was born ... the doctor came out to the waiting room and said to my father ... I'm very sorry...
Quote by Rodney Dangerfield: I was a poster child... for birth control!...
Quote by Mark Twain: Experience teaches us only one thing at a time   - and hardly that, in my case....
Quote by George Carlin: I'm kinda like herpes, I just keep coming back....
Quote by Rodney Dangerfield: When I was born the doctor took one look at my face, turned me over and said,
Quote by Phyllis Diller: You can say the nastiest things about yourself without offending anyone....
Quote by Dolly Parton: I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park....
Quote by Rodney Dangerfield: With girls I get no respect. A belly dancer told me I turned her stomach....
Quote by Rodney Dangerfield: One year they asked me to be poster boy - for birth control....
Quote by Rodney Dangerfield: My mother had morning sickness after I was born....
Quote by Mark Twain: My axiom is, to succeed in business: avoid my example....
Quote by Rodney Dangerfield: When I was a kid I got no respect. I had no friends. I remember the see-saw. I had to keep runnin' f...
Quote by Rodney Dangerfield: The other night a mugger took off his mask and made me wear it....
Quote by Rodney Dangerfield: I'm a downer. I've been depressed my whole life. Figure it out....
Quote by Mark Twain: My memory was never loaded with anything but blank cartridges....
Quote by Princess Diana: I'm as thick as a plank....
Quote by Rodney Dangerfield: I went to see my doctor... Doctor Vidi-boom-ba. Yeah...I told him once,
Quote by Rodney Dangerfield: I'm tellin' ya I get no respect. When I was in Switzerland, I got an obscene yodel....
Quote by Rodney Dangerfield: It was the same thing in the army, no respect. They gave me a uniform that glowed in the dark....
Quote by Phyllis Diller: My house used to be haunted, but the ghosts haven't been back since the night I tried on all my wigs...
Quote by Rodney Dangerfield: I get no respect... I tell you, when I was born, the doctor smacked my mother...
Quote by Rodney Dangerfield: I went to a freak show and they let me in for nothing....
Quote by Rodney Dangerfield: My problem is that I appeal to everyone that can do me absolutely no good....
Quote by Rodney Dangerfield: For two hours, some guy followed me around with a pooper scooper....
Quote by Phyllis Diller: Fang can't stand to see trash & garbage lying around the house. He can't stand the competition....
Quote by Rodney Dangerfield: My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly to...
Quote by Rodney Dangerfield: I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met ...
Quote by Rodney Dangerfield: When I was born I was so ugly the doctor slapped my mother....
Quote by Rodney Dangerfield: I don't get no respect, no respect at all!...
Quote by Dave Barry: I am a superior form of human and I have absolutely no quirks or irrational impulses of any kind....
Quote by Rodney Dangerfield: This morning when I put on my underwear I could hear the fruit-of-the-loom guys laughing at me....
Quote by Rodney Dangerfield: What a dog I got, he found out we look alike, so he killed himself....
Quote by Mitch Hedberg: I got some tartar control toothpaste. I still have tartar, but that stuff's under control. I got so ...
Quote by Phyllis Diller: Do I believe in Witchcraft? I'm the result of it....
Quote by Dave Barry: I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight ye...
Quote by Phyllis Diller: I was the world's ugliest baby. When I was born, the doctor slapped everybody....
Quote by Phyllis Diller: I was the world's ugliest baby. I have photos of my folks leaving the hospital with sacks over their...
Quote by Rodney Dangerfield: When I got back into show business in 1961, I felt - for obvious reasons - that nothing in my life w...
Quote by Rodney Dangerfield: You know you're ugly when you go to the proctologist and he sticks his finger in your mouth....
Quote by Rodney Dangerfield: I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man ...
Quote by Phyllis Diller: I have so many liver spots, I ought to come with a side of onions....
Quote by Dave Barry: I like golf because you can be really terrible at it, and still not look much dorkier than anybody e...
Quote by Phyllis Diller: I'm the only woman who can walk in Central Park at night... and reduce the crime rate....
Quote by Rodney Dangerfield: My only thrill is self inflicted hickies....
Quote by Rodney Dangerfield: When I was a kid I got no respect. My mother breast fed me through a straw....
Quote by Dolly Parton: [On being overweight:] If I tried to haul ass, I would have to make two trips....
Quote by Rabindranath Tagore: The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself....
Quote by Phyllis Diller: If I wore a peek-a-boo dress, it would be like turning in a false alarm....
Quote by Rodney Dangerfield: I can't get no respect....
Quote by Dolly Parton: I know some of the best Dolly Parton jokes. I made 'em up myself....
Quote by Rodney Dangerfield: Every time I get in an elevator, the operator says the same thing to me: 'Basement?'...
Quote by Rodney Dangerfield: One night I asked a cabbie to take me where the action is, he took me to my house....
Quote by Rodney Dangerfield: I started over again with an image: Nothing goes right. Then when The Godfather came out, all I hear...
Quote by Phyllis Diller: When I go to the beach, even the tide won't come in....
Quote by Dolly Parton: My husband calls me 'catfish.' He says I'm all mouth and no brains....
Quote by Rodney Dangerfield: I was an ugly kid; when I was born, after the doctor cut the cord, he hung himself....
Quote by Phyllis Diller: I never made `Who's Who,' but I'm featured in `What's That?'...