Aaron Stanford Quotes

I don't think I'm extremely intelligent by any means.

But I shall hear without pain, that I play the courtier very ill, and talk of that which I do not well understand.

By no means do I consider myself this great sparkling personality.

I don't want to take myself too seriously. That's my lesson to myself.

There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously enough. I think I might be the first to admit that the sort of reticence which prevents a man from exploiting his own personality is really an inverted sort of egotism.

If you can't laugh at yourself, you may be missing the colossal joke of the century.

The men who cannot laugh at themselves frighten me even more than those who laugh at everything.

What I like about it is that I'm not somebody who's in movies. I'm a guy who's not very good going around the track with a bunch of guys who are a hell of a lot better.

Were we to undertake an exhaustive self-scrutiny, disgust would paralyze us, we would be doomed to a thankless existence.

There’s nothing more humbling than seeing your best quotes in a list, and thinking they could have been written by a coma patient with a keyboard and spasms.

It just bothered me that you might think I'm somethin special. I aint.

Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.

But I've swallowed my pride before, that's for sure. I'm practically lined with my mistakes on the inside like a bad-wallpapered bathroom.

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.

A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage. People may be amused at the time, but they will be remembered, and brought out against him upon some subsequent occasion.

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

Literature professes to be important while at the same time considering itself an object of doubt. It confirms itself as it disparages itself. It seeks itself: this is more than it has a right to do, because literature may be one of those things which deserve to be found but not to be sought.

What news? There's nothing to tell. I'm a nun.

When I made mistakes, people used to laugh. I could have learnt better, but I've always liked to make people laugh.

I know I am no better than anyone else in this world. I'm just an actor, that's nothing special. But I'm not into anything bad. Just blackjack.

I'm not a righteous man. People put me up on a pedestal that I don't belong in my personal life. And they think that I'm better than I am. I'm not the good man that people think I am. Newspapers and magazines and television have made me out to be a saint. I'm not. I'm not a Mother Teresa. And I feel that very much.

The newspapers are full of what we would like to happen to us and what we hope will never happen to us.

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise.

We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.

I'm pretty sure that if you looked up the word "nuts" in the dictionary, you'll find my picture. Just another fun feature of my mutant-birdkid-freak package.