You can’t really conduct your life by one or two phrases.
STEVE MARTINActing 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.
More Steve Martin Quotes
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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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Some people have a way with words, and other people; oh, uh, not have way.
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The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.
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It’s not what you know, it’s what you think you know.
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Thankfully, perseverance is a good substitute for talent.
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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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Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled.
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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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The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer.
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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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Chaos in the midst of chaos isn’t funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
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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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I started a grease fire at McDonald’s – threw a match in the cook’s hair.
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I love money. I love everything about it.
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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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