The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.
STEVE MARTINAlways do business as if the person you’re doing business with is trying to screw you, because he probably is. And if he’s not, you can be pleasantly surprised.
More Steve Martin Quotes
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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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You know that look that women get when they want to have sex? Me neither.
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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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A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
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I love money. I love everything about it.
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I will do anything to look like him – except, of course, exercise or eat right.
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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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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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Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
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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 thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.
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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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Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled.
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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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