Blake Jenner Quotes

I do revel slightly in the fact that I am what I am - an English, middle-class, public-school-educated bloke. There is a reputation with that of being slightly stiff, but whoever gets to know me will see some other element - whether it be vulnerable or silly or camp.

The way I approach my insecurities is by making sure I'm the first person laughing at myself.

You don't know how hard I've tried to be left standing all by myself.

Nobody can make more fun of me than I already make of myself.

I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.

If you can't laugh at yourself, then how can you laugh at anybody else? I think people see the human side of you when you do that.

I still have in me the same awareness when I was 12 and chubby and a girl was spitting in my face. I'm the same person.

Sometimes the best way to make 'em laugh is to show 'em how you honestly feel.

I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun.

Don't change for nobody.

I'm still very much Kate.

I am who I am.

One thing that I am proud of: I am really capable of laughing at myself.

I'm reaching 87, trying to keep fit, presenting a vigorous figure, and it's an effort, and is it worth the effort? I laugh at myself trying to keep a bold front. It's become my habit. I just carry on.

Growing up in the acting world, you have a lot of opportunities to change who you are and what you believe in based on how people treat you. I never wanted to do that.

I've always littered my songs with jokes. You might need to dig a little deeper to find the humor, but I would totally object to being some kind of distraught personality. I've never tried to attach myself to that.

I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.

If you tell the truth about how you're feeling, it becomes funny.

Vulnerability is huge. I love to see that in characters. It's something I feel like a lot of my comedic heroes have always done.

I think you can laugh the hardest when you get closest to something real.

The reality is I'm not a 'get knocked down and come back harder' kind of guy.

For what is a man, what has he got? If not himself, then he has naught. To say the things he truly feels, and not the words of one who kneels.

I mean, I like to think of myself as being strong and independent, but I definitely wasn't like that at 14.

I'll never lose the sense of being an underdog.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.