No art comes from the conscious mind.
STEVE MARTINYou 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.
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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Now 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!
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Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!
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A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
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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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It’s pain that changes our lives.
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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.
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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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I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.
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Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled.
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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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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.
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Always make room for the unexpected in yourself.
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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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Thankfully, perseverance is a good substitute for talent.
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