Daniel Keyes Quotes

I have to laugh at myself.

You have to start laughing at yourself at some point.

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

Well, you've got to learn how to make fun of yourself - you know what I mean?

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

I don't laugh at me. I used to. I used to get the giggles when I'd see myself. But now, I see myself onscreen, and I sure don't laugh.

Maybe I am just a jerk.

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.

Apparently, I don't want to take myself too seriously.

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

Nothing's funnier to me than laughing at myself.

I do not look at myself every morning and think: 'Oh, my gosh, I am so perfect, so beautiful, so talented.' No, I like to make fun of myself.

I don't talk to myself or anything, but sometimes I say things and I laugh at myself. Sometimes you have to make fun of yourself.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

Life's most underrated emotion is self-pity.

All the work I do is personal, so the good stuff and the bad stuff that you see in there is all good stuff and bad stuff that I have, and part of the journey, for me, has been to embrace these things that I find embarrassing about myself: my stubbornness, my ego, my maudlin-ness - these things that I see myself do, and I go, 'Oh, David, stop that!'

I'm not saying that I don't like the stuff I put out into the world, because I genuinely enjoy my videos and think they are funny. What I'm saying is that I embrace the fact that I have a punchable face, and that if I could punch myself without feeling it, I would.

It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.

Fools laugh at others. Wisdom laughs at itself.

Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I'm not what I'd like to be.

No woman wants to see herself too clearly.

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.

I think that deprecation part is a very important aspect because when someone looks into themselves, if they're going to be honest, they're going to see parts that are humiliating as well as parts that they might feel really great about. Take Lucas Samaras again, who made a lot of self-portraits. He makes one self-portrait where he is looking directly into the camera and looks so intense and cool. He says in an interview, "I wanted to present the best version of myself."

I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.

It's occurred to me I need to laugh at myself more, and that I don't need to be some sad folk singer all the time. I don't want to be the queen of pain.