Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.
STEVE MARTINNow let’s repeat the non-conformists’ oath: I promise to be different! I promise to be unique! I promise not to repeat things other people say! Good!
More Steve Martin Quotes
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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.
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First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.
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Chaos in the midst of chaos isn’t funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
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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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The banjo is such a happy instrument–you can’t play a sad song on the banjo – it always comes out so cheerful.
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It was essential that I never show doubt about what I was doing.
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I will do anything to look like him – except, of course, exercise or eat right.
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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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Thankfully, perseverance is a good substitute for talent.
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I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
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When I die, now don’t think that I’m a nut, don’t want no fancy funeral, just one like old King Tut.
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A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
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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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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’ve got to keep breathing. It’ll be my worst business mistake if I don’t.
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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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It’s not what you know, it’s what you think you know.
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How to make a million dollars: First, get a million dollars.
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You know that look that women get when they want to have sex? Me neither.
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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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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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I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the words.
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I started a grease fire at McDonald’s – threw a match in the cook’s hair.
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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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No art comes from the conscious mind.
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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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