Self-Deprecating Sayings

I don't care a snap for all the railroads in creation. I only ask that the law shall be observed.

I was asked what I thought about the stock market. I said it was a good place to buy groceries.

I couldn't sleep. I was obsessed with the idea.

I am a newspaper man, and I believe in newspapers.

I am not a star. I am an actress. I have been for many years. I am proud of my work.

I'm not a hater. I don't hate nobody.

I am a living, changing being.

The way I figured it, I was a black man in a white man's world. I had to make my own way.

When I came back, after all this publicity, I was still a second-class citizen.

I am of the opinion that there are very few things which an intelligent mind may not make more intelligible to another.

I am not an optimist, but a man who hopes.

I am here to say that I am a law-breaker. I am here to say that I have broken the law, and I shall break it again.

I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday.

I don't mind if you don't like my jokes. I just don't want you to tell me about it.

I think I know the American people, and I don't understand how they can support their involvement in this war. Is the Statue of Liberty standing on her head?

If when I die, I am still a dictator, I will certainly go down into the oblivion of all dictators. If, on the other hand, I succeed in establishing a truly stable foundation for a democratic government, I will live forever in every home in China.

I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I was living peaceably when people began to speak bad of me. Now I can eat well, sleep well and be glad. I can go everywhere with a good feeling.

By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life.

This phrase isn't my own; it's from the pen of French writer Romain Rolland. But people credit me with having said it all the time—so frequently, in fact, that I might as well have said it myself.

I love mankind, but I am amazed at myself: the more I love mankind in general, the less I love people in particular, that is, individually, as separate persons.