I have found that– just as in real life–imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience.
STEVE MARTINHow to make a million dollars: First, get a million dollars.
More Steve Martin Quotes
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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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Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
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Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!
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The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.
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All I’ve ever wanted was an honest week’s pay for an honest day’s work.
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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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Chaos in the midst of chaos isn’t funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
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I was deeply unhappy, but I didn’t know it because I was so happy all the time.
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You know that look that women get when they want to have sex? Me neither.
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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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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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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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There’s no better way to learn something than to learn it in front of an audience. Your terror drives you.
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Always make room for the unexpected in yourself.
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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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It’s pain that changes our lives.
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Thankfully, perseverance is a good substitute for talent.
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I love money. I love everything about it.
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Be so good they can’t ignore you.
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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’ve got to keep breathing. It’ll be my worst business mistake if I don’t.
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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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You can’t really conduct your life by one or two phrases.
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Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.
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No art comes from the conscious mind.
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