I’ve got to keep breathing. It’ll be my worst business mistake if I don’t.
STEVE MARTINAll I’ve ever wanted was an honest week’s pay for an honest day’s work.
More Steve Martin Quotes
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I just downloaded eleven hundred books onto my Kindle, and now I can’t lift it.
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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.
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Writer’s block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.
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There’s someone out there for everyone – even if you need a pickaxe, a compass, and night goggles to find them.
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Acting has helped me understand people, not only because you are acting as a character, but also because you are watching other actors work. That really helps you identify in life when someone is acting, not being true.
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You have to get comfortable with your work, you really have to know what you’re doing, and it has to be almost boring to you to be able to do it well.
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Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!
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I was deeply unhappy, but I didn’t know it because I was so happy all the time.
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Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled.
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It was essential that I never show doubt about what I was doing.
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I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.
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A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
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How many people have never raised their hand before?
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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.
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Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.
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I started a grease fire at McDonald’s – threw a match in the cook’s hair.
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You can’t really conduct your life by one or two phrases.
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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.
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It’s not what you know, it’s what you think you know.
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You know that look that women get when they want to have sex? Me neither.
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A father carries pictures where his money used to be.
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All I’ve ever wanted was an honest week’s pay for an honest day’s work.
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Acting is collaborative because you are working with another actor, and it’s almost like a two-man juggling team. You have to really be in sync.
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Thankfully, perseverance is a good substitute for talent.
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Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.
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It’s not the size of the nose that matters, it’s what’s inside that counts.
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