Agnes Varda Quotes

If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like.

Inviting people to laugh with you while you are laughing at yourself is a good thing to do. You may be a fool but you're the fool in charge.

When I made mistakes, people used to laugh. I could have learnt better, but I've always liked to make people laugh.

It is unpardonable conceit not to laugh at your own jokes. Joking is undignified; that is why it is so good for one's soul. Do not fancy you can be a detached wit and avoid being a buffoon; you cannot. If you are the Court Jester you must be the Court Fool.

It's good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.

I love inappropriate humour. What else are you going to do? You have to laugh.

I giggle when I put myself down. It's just funny to me.

You learn to laugh at yourself, and you also lean on comedy as a crutch to kind of take the edge off because comedians often are self-deprecating, and they cross lines that they shouldn't. Stuff like that brings a smile to my face every once in a while when needed.

The more trauma and bad experiences you have, the more you are able to laugh on yourself and the situation.

You got to pay your dues to get the joke. Besides, laughter is cheap and very portable. If there's a pogrom, or they're blaming you for the plague, nothing is easier to pack than a sense of humor.

Life is hard. And we better laugh at everything, otherwise we're going down the tube.

I enjoy making people laugh. The trick is to tell them jokes against yourself. If you praise yourself, your stories aren't funny.

Learn to laugh at yourselves as one must laugh!

A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad,’ said he. ‘Few realize it. That is why there are so many madmen in the world.

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

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.

You have to laugh at yourself, because you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't.

A general truth is to have a good sense of humor. Roll with the punches of life's ups and downs. Laughing at yourself always helps.

I started out in stand-up, so it's very satisfying to make people laugh, but it usually means at your own expense.

If you can't laugh at yourself, you're cooked!

I keep on repeating something told to me by an American psychologist: "When you are making a joke about someone and you are the only one to laugh, it is not a joke. It is a joke only for yourself." If people are making a joke they have the right to laugh at me but I will ignore them. Ignoring doesn't mean that you don't understand. You understand it so much that you don't want to react.

It's not terribly dignified to have anyone seeing one laugh at one's own material.

We laugh, that we may not cry.

The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.

Cultures that don't laugh at themselves are cults.