Self-Deprecating Sayings

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I'm doing.

I am corny, you know? But I think there are just about 140 million people in this country who are just as corny as I am.

I sometimes lie awake at night and wonder why I am still so popular and, to be honest, I don't know.

If I am to be damned for going to hell with my friends, I will go to hell with my friends.

If I won't be myself, who will?

I have a wife, three children, three dogs, seven cats. I'm not a Franz Kafka, sitting alone and suffering.

I have no further use for America. I wouldn't go back there if Jesus Christ was President.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

I don't take my life seriously, but I do take what I do – in my life – seriously.

Would people applaud me if I was a good plumber?

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

I have tried to preserve the memory of Pierre Curie and to perpetuate the work which was the object of his life.

I am a man of science, and I believe in the power of observation and experimentation.

For some years I have been afflicted with the belief that flight is possible to man. My disease has progressed to an incurable stage.

I learned more from my professors in one year than I have from all the books I've read.

I have a theory that a quarter of the people in the world are creative, a quarter are destructive, and half are just plain dumb.

I am not a great mathematician; I am merely a good one.

My father was a sportsman and a hunter, and he taught me to shoot when I was very young. I was always interested in what made things go.