Ayn Rand Quotes

Well, I'm quite a self-deprecating person.

I think that's why I've lasted this long because I love everything I make fun of! I make fun of myself first! I mean, I started my career by calling my films "trash" - the local critics used to complain that I beat the critic to the typewriter.

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

I think the main thing I remembered throughout all of filming it was just that she just was extremely self-destructive. I think everybody can relate to that a little bit. She doesn't like herself.

I have this part in myself that sometimes gets me into situations that can never end well, just because I want to prove to myself that I'm no good.

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

Learn to laugh at yourselves as one must laugh!

To laugh at others is egoistic; to laugh at oneself is very humble. Learn to laugh at yourself - about your seriousness and things like that. You can get serious about seriousness. Then instead of one, you have created two diseases. Then you can get serious about that also, and you can go on and on. There is no end to it; it can go on AD NAUSEAM.

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

The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.

If you can't laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at?

If you can't make fun of yourself, you don't have any right to make fun of others

You can make fun of your own a lot easier than someone else's.

Least at thine own things laugh.

No matter how you feel, you've got to be able to laugh at yourself. If you can laugh at Donald Trump, then you better be able to laugh at yourself, too. For us as comedians, we have to point out what's funny.

I don't mind being laughed at: that's something I really don't mind, and I think that's kept me sane. My ability to laugh at myself and allow others to laugh at me has been my saving grace.

I have trouble keeping a lid on the self-hatred.

Every time I've ever gotten close to being successful, I've found some way to screw it up.

As a youth, I hated myself for not being good enough. All my inadequacies and failures, not being kind enough, generous or understanding enough, would assail me at night. It became a habit to be guilty and self castigating, not liking myself because I was unworthy... I really tortured myself.

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.

What are you laughing at? You are laughing at yourself.

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

I don't like my voice. I don't like the way I look. I don't like the way I move. I don't like the way I act. I mean, period. So, you know, I don't like myself.

Sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency.

Ain't nobody messin' with you but you