Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naïveté, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do.
STEVE MARTINDinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled.
More Steve Martin Quotes
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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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Some people have a way with words, and other people; oh, uh, not have way.
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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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Don’t have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.
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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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All I’ve ever wanted was an honest week’s pay for an honest day’s work.
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The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.
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I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.
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There’s no better way to learn something than to learn it in front of an audience. Your terror drives you.
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It’s pain that changes our lives.
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You can’t really conduct your life by one or two phrases.
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The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer.
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It was essential that I never show doubt about what I was doing.
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I believe the United States should allow all foreigners in this country, provided they can speak our native language… Apache.
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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.
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