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.
STEVE MARTINThere’s no better way to learn something than to learn it in front of an audience. Your terror drives you.
More Steve Martin Quotes
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Writer’s block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.
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Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.
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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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Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!
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It’s not what you know, it’s what you think you know.
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It’s pain that changes our lives.
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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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Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled.
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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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I started a grease fire at McDonald’s – threw a match in the cook’s hair.
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Thankfully, perseverance is a good substitute for talent.
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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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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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I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
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Always make room for the unexpected in yourself.
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