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.
STEVE MARTINIt’s pain that changes our lives.
More Steve Martin Quotes
-
-
I love money. I love everything about it.
STEVE MARTIN -
It’s not the size of the nose that matters, it’s what’s inside that counts.
STEVE MARTIN -
Thankfully, perseverance is a good substitute for talent.
STEVE MARTIN -
No art comes from the conscious mind.
STEVE MARTIN -
I was deeply unhappy, but I didn’t know it because I was so happy all the time.
STEVE MARTIN -
I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.
STEVE MARTIN -
Always do business as if the person you’re doing business with is trying to screw you, because he probably is. And if he’s not, you can be pleasantly surprised.
STEVE MARTIN -
There’s no better way to learn something than to learn it in front of an audience. Your terror drives you.
STEVE MARTIN -
I just downloaded eleven hundred books onto my Kindle, and now I can’t lift it.
STEVE MARTIN -
You can’t really conduct your life by one or two phrases.
STEVE MARTIN -
I could never be a woman, ’cause I’d just stay home and play with my breasts all day.
STEVE MARTIN -
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.
STEVE MARTIN -
I have found that– just as in real life–imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience.
STEVE MARTIN -
I’m not trying to be a big shot or anything like that, but I get my drinks half price.
STEVE MARTIN -
How many people have never raised their hand before?
STEVE MARTIN






