It’s not the size of the nose that matters, it’s what’s inside that counts.
STEVE MARTINWith 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.
More Steve Martin Quotes
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Thankfully, perseverance is a good substitute for talent.
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I could never be a woman, ’cause I’d just stay home and play with my breasts all day.
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I have found that– just as in real life–imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience.
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Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!
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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.
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It was essential that I never show doubt about what I was doing.
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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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I’m not trying to be a big shot or anything like that, but I get my drinks half price.
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A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
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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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Be so good they can’t ignore you.
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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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I believe the United States should allow all foreigners in this country, provided they can speak our native language… Apache.
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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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