Self-Depiction Quotes

When I draw my caricature self-portrait, I always do a huge smile.

I think people understand I'm not actually the real Thomas Jefferson.

Sure, I am funny and have a good sense of humor. Mostly, though, I just tell the truth. The internal dialogue people have in their heads - I just write it.

No people are more conceited than those who depict their own feelings, especially if they happen to have a little prose at their command for the occasion.

If you're going to document your own journey, the jokes work better in the first person, just like the stories do.

For a long time, I've loved the kind of characters who are boastful yet petty. I was originally a gag manga artist, after all.

Should you create a protagonist based directly on yourself? The problem with this - and it is a very large problem - is that almost no one can view himself objectively on the page. As the writer, you're too close to your own complicated makeup.

I think actors go along a continuum from Simon Callow down to kind of Ross Kemp, and I like to think of myself as the Ross Kemp of comedy. He's very good in 'East Enders' because he plays a version of himself. I think I can play a version of myself - that's about all I can do.

The internet is such a strange place. You can put up one thing on there like, Katy Perry was a taekwondo master of the black belt! When really all I did was one kickboxing class. That's how I think my short time in doing my gospel record was like.

I would never create an image for myself; I'm not that clever.

I played myself in an Aziz Ansari comedy, and that was funny to see how they saw me... flowing scarves and a flourish of pink! Eek!

I parody myself every chance I get. I try to make fun of myself and let people know that I'm a human being, and these things that have happened to me are real. I'm not just some cartoon who exists and suddenly doesn't exist.

There is, I think, great difficulty in writing of one's self: it is almost impossible to present subjects where the chief actor must be conspicuous and not seem to be, or really be, egotistical.

Anyone watching '30 Rock' always knew Tina Fey was playing a fictionalized version of herself, a workaholic comedy writer who also plays one on TV. She's the boss; Liz Lemon just works here.

Humans have always used animals to depict ideas about themselves: ideas about their status, about their position in life and society and the world.

Looking back at it now, any objective account of my life is bound to read like a cross between 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' and a travel brochure.

There's a tendency when you write a book to portray yourself as the hero.

I certainly wasn't consciously hiding my identity in the earlier work, though a lot of people have brought up the fact that I drew myself without eyeballs.

Balthazar Balsan is not a self-portrait. If he was, I'd have made the character more flattering.

Born ham, that's basically me.

The movies and comedy that I love the most, even if there are men starring in them, often the men wrote the parts for themselves.

I think your tendency when you play yourself is to accentuate something about you that you think is the funny thing about you.

I was born with an adult head and a tiny body. Like a 'Peanuts' character.

Joey being one of my finest performances ever. Matt LeBlanc's basically doing the same thing right now, playing himself on Episodes. When I did Joey, I really leaned on them to make me the biggest ass they possibly could, because, frankly, everyone in their heart of hearts thinks of themselves that way. Or at least I do, anyway.