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 MARTINChaos in the midst of chaos isn’t funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
More Steve Martin Quotes
-
-
I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
STEVE MARTIN -
I will do anything to look like him – except, of course, exercise or eat right.
STEVE MARTIN -
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.
STEVE MARTIN -
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 -
I have found that– just as in real life–imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience.
STEVE MARTIN -
Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.
STEVE MARTIN -
How many people have never raised their hand before?
STEVE MARTIN -
You can’t really conduct your life by one or two phrases.
STEVE MARTIN -
First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.
STEVE MARTIN -
It’s pain that changes our lives.
STEVE MARTIN -
I actually learned about sex watching neighborhood dogs. And it was good. Go ahead and laugh. I think the most important thing I learned was: Never let go of the girl’s leg, no matter how hard she tries to shake you off.
STEVE MARTIN -
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 -
The banjo is such a happy instrument–you can’t play a sad song on the banjo – it always comes out so cheerful.
STEVE MARTIN -
Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!
STEVE MARTIN -
Be so good they can’t ignore you.
STEVE MARTIN