Michael Moore Quotes

I primarily have had my career in comedy, and that is something that I have never been too concerned about because I know there is really no room for vanity in comedy. Comedy comes from pain and it is a lot easier to empathize with somebody who is out of shape.

I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.

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 one is perfect. I would never claim to be that person.

I'm not going to say I'm perfect. I never have.

I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun.

Apparently, I don't want to take myself too seriously.

I think I'm a pretty open book. We're all a work in progress, and I'm not ashamed to say that I don't have it all together - I don't really think anyone does.

I know I'm not perfect.

I'm not going to pretend I'm some saint, because I'm not.

I have to laugh at myself.

This isn't meant to make me sound interesting and rock 'n' roll, but I wouldn't want to live with me a lot of the time.

This is who I am. I'm not perfect. I don't want to try to be perfect.

I'm direct, I'm unpretentious and I'm pretty dogged, and I hope I've got a capacity to laugh at myself and not take myself too seriously.

We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.

I tell the truth, and I expose myself as a weak, misguided, misdirected, dysfunctional human being I used to be.

I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.

You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.

A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.

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

I'm not the most loathsome man in the world. I've dropped to number nine.

With Don Rickles and me, we're just telling the truth. We're not terrific people, and we're not gonna win the beauty contest. We're just average Joes. We're just being who we are, and I think people like that.

I laugh at myself on a daily basis.

I am not perfect. That's for sure.

I'm not saying that I don't like the stuff I put out into the world, because I genuinely enjoy my videos and think they are funny. What I'm saying is that I embrace the fact that I have a punchable face, and that if I could punch myself without feeling it, I would.