Carl Reiner Quotes

For better or worse, there are few things so disarming as one who laughs well at her own expense.

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

I don't want people to think that I can't make fun of myself.

If you can really laugh at yourself loud and hard every time you fall, people will think you're drunk.

I think that people see that Sandra Bullock has an ability to laugh at herself and you just don't find that too often.

When you can laugh at yourself no one can ever make a fool of you.

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

I have inherited my father's sense of humour about myself. It's a lot more pleasant to make fun of yourself than when someone else does.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

I've always been able to laugh at myself.

This is something people don't realize about me, but I can laugh - and laugh at myself.

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

I'm not afraid of poking fun at myself.

I'm really good at laughing at myself.

I'm a funny guy. You've got to be able to make fun of yourself. We only live once.

Only a short time ago, I learned that people laughed at me. Now I can see that unknowingly I joined them in laughing at myself. That hurts the most.

Learn to laugh at yourselves as one must laugh!

I laugh at myself. I don't take myself completely seriously. I think that's another quality that people have to hold on to... you have to laugh, especially at yourself.

I've been a poser for f--ing years. I say, pose your arse off. You know, have a laugh.

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

People say both Obama and I have trouble laughing at ourselves. We can't laugh at ourselves. That would be racist!

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.

All of us have schnozzles... if not in our faces, then in our character, minds or habits. When we admit our schnozzles, instead of defending them, we begin to laugh, and the world laughs with us.

The men who cannot laugh at themselves frighten me even more than those who laugh at everything.