Steve Martin Quotes

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Steve Martin Quote: “Be so good they can’t ignore you.”

Steve Martin Quote: “Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.”

Steve Martin Quote: “It’s pain that changes our lives.”

Steve Martin Quote: “A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”

Steve Martin Quote: “Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.”

Steve Martin Quote: “Be undeniably good.”

Steve Martin Quote: “Or is it that I think too much?”

Steve Martin Quote: “I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.”

Steve Martin Quote: “Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you’ll be a mile away and have his shoes.”

Steve Martin Quote: “I’ve got to keep breathing. It’ll be my worst business mistake if I don’t.”

Steve Martin Quote: “Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.”

Steve Martin Quote: “Writer’s block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.”

Steve Martin Quote: “The operation was a success, but I’m afraid the doctor is dead.”

Steve Martin Quote: “The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.”

Steve Martin Quote: “I’ve heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone.”

Steve Martin Quote: “I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.”

Steve Martin Quote: “The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer.”

Steve Martin Quote: “No art comes from the conscious mind.”

Steve Martin Quote: “As much as I remember, I just thought, I want to sing a song that starts normal and ends crazy.”

Steve Martin Quote: “I don’t really manage my time. I really just wait until I’m inspired to do something. And when I’m inspired to do something, it just happens.”

Steve Martin Quote: “I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.”

Steve Martin Quote: “How to make a million dollars: First, get a million dollars.”

Steve Martin Quote: “There’s someone out there for everyone-even if you need a pickaxe, a compass, and night goggles to find them.”

Steve Martin Quote: “I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.”

Steve Martin Quote: “You know what your problem is, it’s that you haven’t seen enough movies – all of life’s riddles are answered in the movies.”

Steve Martin Quote: “First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.”

Steve Martin Quote: “I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.”

Steve Martin Quote: “I will do anything to look like him – except, of course, exercise or eat right.”

Steve Martin Quote: “Teaching is a form of show business.”

Steve Martin Quote: “Nothing I do is done by popular demand.”

Steve Martin Quote: “It’s not the size of the nose that matters, it’s what’s inside that counts.”

Steve Martin Quote: “How many people have never raised their hand before?”

Steve Martin Quote: “Women have choices, and men have responsibilities.”

Steve Martin Quote: “I’m not a human being. I’m despicable and disgusting – but that’s where the money is.”

Steve Martin Quote: “My problem is that I don’t get the same exhiliration from success as I get depression from failure.”

Steve Martin Quote: “I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you’re an idiot.”

Steve Martin Quote: “I’m for the Wall Street Occupiers. But will they accept me when they find out I sell packaged mortgage default instruments to children?”

Steve Martin Quote: “A friend of mine once asked how to make it in show business and I said “Be so good that they can’t ignore you.” She thought I was being flip but it’s true. The challenge is trying to live up to the opportunities given me.”

Steve Martin Quote: “You know that look that women get when they want to have sex? Me neither.”

Steve Martin Quote: “You can’t really conduct your life by one or two phrases.”

Steve Martin Quote: “I saw the movie, ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ and was surprised because I didn’t see any tigers or dragons. And then I realized why: they’re crouching and hidden.”

Steve Martin Quote: “I was always very shy but as I get older I think, What am I being shy for? You just grow weary of your own hang-ups.”

Steve Martin Quote: “Always do business as if the person you’re doing business with is trying to screw you, because he probably is. And if he’s not, you can be pleasantly surprised.”

Steve Martin Quote: “So, I can hurt now, or hurt later.”

Steve Martin Quote: “Ah, yes. I remember my first beer.”

Steve Martin Quote: “A celebrity is any well-known TV or movie star who looks like he spends more than two hours working on his hair.”

Steve Martin Quote: “Love is a promise delivered already broken.”

Steve Martin Quote: “I’ve decided to take up smoking, my doctor said I wasn’t getting enough tar.”

Steve Martin Quote: “If I screw up raising my kids, nothing I achieve will matter much.”

Steve Martin Quote: “Always make room for the unexpected in yourself.”

Steve Martin Quote: “I used to think a wedding was a simple affair. Boy and girl meet, they fall in love, he buys a ring, she buys a dress, they say I do. I was wrong. That’s getting married. A wedding is an entirely different proposition.”

Steve Martin Quote: “As a school board we felt it’s an unfair expense to families. The lawsuit has a certain logic to it – if you have free public education, you can’t put these things on top of it. It defeats the purpose.”

Steve Martin Quote: “I handed in a script last year and the studio didn’t change one word. The word they didn’t change was on page 87.”

Steve Martin Quote: “Writing is something I took up rather than anything I had an inclination toward. I like acting -delivering someone else’s message – but writing is more of an accomplishment.”

Steve Martin Quote: “I’m always looking for something to engage my imagination and take me on a little mental voyage. I just want a new topic in my life.”

Steve Martin Quote: “There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won’t stand for that.”

Steve Martin Quote: “If you’re studying Geology, which is all facts, as soon as you get out of school you forget it all, but Philosophy you remember just enough to screw you up for the rest of your life.”

Steve Martin Quote: “You can’t make something beautiful by trying to make something beautiful. Something becomes beautiful in the process of trying to be something else.”

Steve Martin Quote: “He never complicates a desire by overthinking it, unlike Mirabelle, who spins a cocoon around an idea until it is immobile.”

Steve Martin Quote: “We’ve taken what was just once a racetrack and made it a multifaceted gaming destination for the entire region.”

Steve Martin Quote: “There are few takers for the quiet heart.”

Steve Martin Quote: “A father carries pictures where his money used to be.”

Steve Martin Quote: “I never had a movie that I wanted to do turned down in my whole life. I always write the script first so it speaks for itself.”

Steve Martin Quote: “I have heard it said that a complicated childhood can lead to a life in the arts. I tell you this story of my father and me to let you know I am qualified to be a comedian.”

Steve Martin Quote: “To me, torture would be, “I can’t think what to write in the next sentence. I’m stuck.” Torture would be if you didn’t have the next idea.”

Steve Martin Quote: “With comedy, you never know until you put it in front of an audience. You shoot it and a year later you have no idea if it’s going to work. And then you get the response. It’s great when it’s good.”

Steve Martin Quote: “The course was more plodding than heroic. I did not strive valiantly against doubters but took incremental steps studded with a few intuitive leaps.”

Steve Martin Quote: “I just wanted to be in show business. I didn’t care if I was going to be an actor or a magician or what. Comedy was a point of the least resistance, really. And on the simplest level, I loved comedy.”

Steve Martin Quote: “I’m tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period.”

Steve Martin Quote: “I got a flue shot and now my chimney works perfectly.”

Steve Martin Quote: “I’m trying to think of other ones. Oh, yeah, I’d say – somebody would buy something and we’d say, and because you are our hundredth customer today, you get a free paperback.”

Steve Martin Quote: “Writing is extremely personal, and that’s the joy of it for me.”

Steve Martin Quote: “I’m the leader of the platoon and I run gambling and lotteries, dances and I sell beer illegally. I’m a con man and I’m thoroughly lovable.”

Steve Martin Quote: “It’s like painting the same blank canvas over and over and over and over and over. Once the concept is known, you don’t need to see two. And that was in the back of my head, that I was really done artistically with what I had created or pastiched.”

Steve Martin Quote: “Kids like my act because I’m wearing nose glasses. Adults like my act because there’s a guy who thinks putting on nose glasses is funny.”

Steve Martin Quote: “I find animated movies very touching. They reach an audience that’s hard to get with a live-action film.”

Steve Martin Quote: “With a cheery delicacy she divided my obsessions into three categories: acceptable, unacceptable, and hilarious.”

Steve Martin Quote: “Relationships end, but they don’t end your life. But people do often spending more time finding out about failed relationships than finding successful ones.”

Steve Martin Quote: “A remarkable memoir that’s packed with anecdotes, advice and humor, all while maintaining a high level of dignity and self-awareness.”

Steve Martin Quote: “When someone less capable is ahead of me, I am not pleased. It makes me insane.”

Steve Martin Quote: “College totally changed my life. It changed what I believe and what I think about everything. I majored in philosophy.”

Steve Martin Quote: “Home to me is when someone comes up to me and says, “Can I get a selfie?” No. It’s where your wife and your family are. It’s the emotional place where you feel like you’re not away from it.”

Steve Martin Quote: “Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.”

Steve Martin Quote: “An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.”

Steve Martin Quote: “Lots of women are getting involved. They’re not satisfied just being passengers anymore.”

Steve Martin Quote: “She had destroyed whatever was between us by making a profound gaffe: She met me.”

Steve Martin Quote: “I really enjoy the social aspects of music as much as anything.”

Steve Martin Quote: “She tried to get even with him through psychological warfare but couldn’t, because he didn’t care.”

Steve Martin Quote: “It’s not what you know, it’s what you think you know.”

Steve Martin Quote: “Some nights, alone, he thinks of her, and some nights, alone, she thinks of him. Some night these thoughts, separated by miles and time zones, occur at the same objective moment, and Ray and Mirabelle are connected without ever knowing it.”

Steve Martin Quote: “With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you’re never off the hook.”

Steve Martin Quote: “I can juggle. I started juggling as a kid. And when I worked at Disneyland, I knew a juggler there named Christopher Faire, and he taught me how to juggle. I used it in my comedy act for a while.”

Steve Martin Quote: “Whether I’m involved in creating something or not, it’s a personal issue of do I respect it. But you can only know that five or ten years later.”

Steve Martin Quote: “Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled.”

Steve Martin Quote: “I’m not trying to be a big shot or anything like that, but I get my drinks half price.”

Steve Martin Quote: “I would like a wine. The purpose of the wine is to get me drunk. A bad wine will get me as drunk as a good wine. I would like the good wine. And since the result is the same no matter which wine I drink, I’d like to pay the bad wine price.”

Steve Martin Quote: “Performing music is a way to do comedy, but without the obligation to do a solid hour, hour and half of a standup. I could intersperse it with music, so it became a really good format for me.”

Steve Martin Quote: “I choose a project based on whether it feels worthwhile working on when it comes to me. But secondly I choose it if it sounds like fun. Projects are determined by just how they strike me at the moment, as they have done throughout my whole life.”

Steve Martin Quote: “If you feel tired midway through, give Neil Patrick Harris a Red Bull and throw some sheet music at him.”

Steve Martin Quote: “There is something going on now in Mexico that I happen to think is cruelty to animals. What I’m talking about, of course, is cat juggling.”

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