Nick Harkaway Quotes

The book is called 'Most Talkative,' because I was voted most talkative in high school. And I've never stopped talking. My mouth has been my greatest asset and my biggest Achilles' heel.

I think comedy I've learned is really just about relaxing and trusting yourself and allowing yourself to fail.

My improv definitely shows a different side of myself, which is more true to what my real humor is and what my real personality is, and I think - I guess 'wild' is a good word for it. I'm still sweet! But I won't let anyone walk all over me.

One thing that I am proud of: I am really capable of laughing at myself.

I'm no good at the one-liner thing. It's just not me.

Nobody can make more fun of me than I already make of myself.

I've always tried to come up with funny dancing since I was young, to attract girls' attention for one thing. It's got to be funny. I can't pull it off with serious dances. That's not me.

I think people think I'm harder and more arrogant and cocky than I am - because I know how to put on a front, but it's nothing like who I am inside.

I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.

I like making fun of myself; I don't want to make fun of other people, so I don't mind doing something out of character that some people might not expect me to do.

Most of my songs make fun of myself.

Nothing's more charming than someone who doesn't take herself too seriously.

Comedy is incredibly hard. You have to be loose. You have to be not afraid to fail.

I'd love to get into some comedy, but people keep saying, 'You're not funny!' And I say, 'Well, fair enough.' I have done comedy on stage.

I'm going to be Dog, and I'm going to be an entertainer. And I'm going to make mistakes.

I don't want people to think that I can't make fun of myself.

I apologize in my real life all the time. I say ridiculous things, I make mistakes constantly. But when I'm on stage, I'm at a microphone... it's a joke!

When I was a kid, I never did funny things to get attention. I was never a funny person. I was never, like, 'Oh, wow. I could say this some day on stage.'

I'm not an actor, really. I can play myself pretty well.

I think I'm just a comedian who's a pretty good con man, and I don't see that changing any time soon.

I don't take myself as seriously as I did when I was playing, and it works, and I think people see the self-deprecation in my commentary.

The mystery is cool, but, at the same time, if I'm trying to empower people, I have to be an open book. You can see my flaws, the mistakes I've made. From that, make your own judgment and move on your own path.

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

The way I approach my insecurities is by making sure I'm the first person laughing at myself.

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, they made it cool to be funny and to be embarrassed and to look a thousand different ways and show a bunch of different areas of their lives.