Rita Rudner Quotes

The ego does not want to be wrong, ever.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.

You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise.

I had a great deal of arrogance and a great deal of bravado, but I think the bravado was brought on by a huge insecurity.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

In falling over in heels while trying to look attractive, you don't just hurt your body, you bear the humiliation of injuring your very soul. Physical pain? Whatever, bring it on. But the humiliation? Oh, you have seen to the very weakest part of me.

Most of the people of this world are coated round and round with self-esteem, and they're afraid to admit any understanding of the things which aren't good.

I had this giant ego of an athlete, but I was self-conscious at everything else.

To test if you are worrying too much about looking good, observe how you feel when you find out you've made a mistake or don't know something.

This arrogance thing... I've had that my whole life. I flip between, 'Oh really? Oh, thank you. Wow. That's amazing' and, 'Yeah! Of course I am.' They're both varying degrees of a self-defence mechanism. It can be from minute to minute that I change.

I definitely don't think that I'm hot doo-doo. I don't.

People who act the most arrogant often are the most insecure, and they just can't even begin to accept the possibility that they might not be as good as they think they are.

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

I don't get embarrassed.

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity.

I've fallen over on stage a couple of times, but I've only ever bruised my ego.

It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

People laugh at me. Sometimes I know why, and sometimes I don't.

Art is based on emotion, but being macho is based on ego; the wall protecting that emotion.

It's a bit embarrassing watching myself, but I couldn't get someone else to play me, that would've been stupid.

People think I have an interesting walk. Hell, I'm just trying to hold my gut in.

I'm too conceited for therapy.

I was feeling real good and real manly. Until a real cowboy walked by and told me I had my hat on backwards. So much for my career as a cowboy.