Martin Parr Quotes

Nothing's funnier to me than laughing at myself.

Laugh at yourself - a lot. My mum taught me not to take myself too seriously.

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

I think it has something to do with being British. We don't take ourselves as seriously as some other countries do. I think a lot of people take themselves far too seriously; I find that a very tedious attitude.

It's part of my character not to take myself too seriously. That's one of the reasons I've been able to survive.

You have to start laughing at yourself at some point.

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.

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

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

Most of my songs make fun of myself.

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.

Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself.

I think I have a sense of mischief and that I can laugh at myself.

It's very easy for me to laugh at myself and laugh at life.

I have to laugh at myself.

Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know.

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

We are never happy until we learn to laugh at ourselves.

The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

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

I think it's important to have a sense of humor. You have to be able to laugh at yourself.

I'm totally cool being self-deprecating.

We have to be able to poke fun at ourselves.