When I die, now don’t think that I’m a nut, don’t want no fancy funeral, just one like old King Tut.
STEVE MARTINThe banjo is such a happy instrument–you can’t play a sad song on the banjo – it always comes out so cheerful.
More Steve Martin Quotes
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Always make room for the unexpected in yourself.
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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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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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It’s not what you know, it’s what you think you know.
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It was essential that I never show doubt about what I was doing.
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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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Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.
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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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First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.
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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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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 believe the United States should allow all foreigners in this country, provided they can speak our native language… Apache.
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I will do anything to look like him – except, of course, exercise or eat right.
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Some people have a way with words, and other people; oh, uh, not have way.
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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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