Never praise your cider or your horse
Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.
I don't understand how somebody wouldn't have a sense of humor about themselves.
When I got to Hollywood, there wasn't even a Boulevard. I'm that old. It was just a little dirt trail. I'm kidding.
I'm losing my hair. I'm overweight. It's not like that's at the top of the list when women go looking for a man. It's like - complete collapse, every year.
It is one of the triumphs of human wit ... to conquer by humility and submissiveness ... to make oneself small in order to appear great ... such ... are often the expedients of the neurotic.
It's how we live, making fun of ourselves.
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.
I'd love to be a diva. But I'd then have to send so many apology notes for my abhorrent behaviour.
I didn't always take myself that seriously. Image-wise, I was somewhat of a jokester.
We compare everything with what is being done in the West. Even the film reviews are written like that. It is sad because we are trying to belittle ourselves.
It is the duty of a great person so to demean himself, as that whatever endowments he may have, he may appear to value himself upon no qualities but such as any man may arrive at.
I have never taken myself that seriously as an actor.
I think I've got more humour than comes across.
I had lunch the other day with my niece, Emma, and she said, 'You're so smart, Aunt Julia.' And I wanted to say, 'I'm not smart - I'm 41! You're 17!'
I hope to God I don't win an Oscar tomorrow night. It would really depress me if I did. I really don't deserve it. It wasn't that important a part anyhow.
Make yourself look really stupid so you don't feel bad doing something a little stupid.
Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self depreciation.
I don't really take myself very seriously.
I'm a one-man idiot.
To be fair, I don't get mad when people laugh at me when I fall down.
I think I would like to go into modelling. Of course, I don't know how to do it, and wouldn't be any good at it if I did, so I'm going to employ someone to walk the catwalks on my behalf. It would still be me, of course.
Nobody can make more fun of me than I already make of myself.
The only people who didn't like The Monkees were the French, and they don't even like themselves, so what's the point?
I think comedy comes more from a low sense of self-esteem, and I certainly have that.
