Lawrence Durrell Quotes

Laugh at yourself - a lot. My mum taught me not to take myself too seriously.

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.

My ego and my vanities have nothing to do with comedy.

I cannot stand all the people who take themselves very seriously, who cannot just laugh at themselves.

Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed.

Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.

When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.

I have sometimes done cartoons that are hurtful to people - immature, spiteful stuff. Some are so self-indulgent, and some have just failed. I look back and sometimes cringe. But one regret as I get older is that I haven't been radical and wild enough.

The less seriously you take yourself, the better work you're going to do.

Nothing's funnier to me than laughing at myself.

Most of my songs make fun of myself.

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.

Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself.

It's very easy for me to laugh at myself and laugh at life.

I have to laugh at myself.

I just don't take myself as seriously anymore. But as a result of that, I am taking myself more seriously. My ego has gone on holiday, and it can't get a flight back home.

I began working quite young, writing, growing, maturing, always striving to top myself - to make people laugh hard at things they know and believe deep in their hearts to be true.

I was taking myself very seriously when I was going through life changes. And I realized that I needed to laugh at myself, particularly at my mistakes.

I don't take myself too seriously.

Fame comes and fame goes, but you have to be able to laugh about yourself and to take it with a grain of salt.

The ability for us to laugh at ourselves is Britain's saving grace.

I think I'm probably one of the worst directors around, but I do have an interest in my fellow man.

I thought I was so much smarter than everybody. And I'm not.

You have to discover when you're inadequate to be funny and you don't know you're inadequate when you're a kid.