Neal Brennan Quotes

My self-deprecating humor may not be as funny as I thought.

Humor comes from self-confidence.

I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass.

Clearly I am a person who suffers from a lack of ego.

I have not taken my good looks seriously from the beginning. When I would be teased by my friends about my looks, I would just make a self-deprecating remark and let it pass.

Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.

I don't think anyone's ever accused me of too much self-love.

I'm not so funny. Gilda was funny. I'm funny on camera sometimes. In life, once in a while. Once in a while. But she was funny. She spent more time worrying about being liked than anything else.

I think I'm comedy-attractive, but it's never gonna be me and Charlize Theron up there.

You get into comedy because you are insecure, and you communicate with the world through comedy to sort of alleviate the tension of those insecurities and to find a way to make people like you other than the way you look or how good you are at sports. I don't think that really goes away.

Me personally, I don't think I'm even hot enough to be getting dissed.

If you set the attractiveness bar really low, people have to compliment you on your looks when they meet you in person. I'm pretty much a genius. I'm actually applying to work at the Genius Bar based on this trick.

In life, I'd much rather have people laughing at me than booing me.

I never thought I was funny, but I enjoy being funny.

I think comedy comes more from a low sense of self-esteem, and I certainly have that.

I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.

It's funny, because I never think of myself as Little Miss All-Together.

My problem is people seem to laugh at me, but the one that laughs harder than anybody is me.

So, I'm the Eighth Wonder of the World. It's flattering and very, very funny.

Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.

I made sure that instead of people making fun of me, like every comedian probably says, I made fun of myself first so they would get distracted and just laugh. I was pretty brutally picked on for a while growing up. It was always the really pretty girls, the hot girls and then there was me. So I had to do something to get any sort of attention.

The joke I always make about myself is that I'm self-involved, but I'm not vain.

I've turned arrogance into an artform, where it's so absurd that it becomes comedy. But I've never done anything to hurt anybody or steal from anyone.

I'm severely overrated. I'm just above a hack. That should be the name of my new DVD: 'Chris Rock: Slightly Above Hack'.

Eartha Mae is very shy. She's scared to be seen, scared of rejection and even afraid of affection. Relationships can be rather uncomfortable for her. But, as Eartha Kitt, it's fine. I can accept and reject any time I want to. Do I ever reject? Not really. Although people think I do!