50+ Steve Martin Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

The banjo is such a happy instrument–you can’t play a sad song on the banjo – it always comes out so cheerful.

Steve Martin

A father carries pictures where his money used to be.

Steve Martin

Don’t have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.

Steve Martin

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.

Steve Martin

It was essential that I never show doubt about what I was doing.

Steve Martin

You can’t really conduct your life by one or two phrases.

Steve Martin

Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.

Steve Martin

The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer.

Steve Martin

I just downloaded eleven hundred books onto my Kindle, and now I can’t lift it.

Steve Martin

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.

Steve Martin

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 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

It’s not the size of the nose that matters, it’s what’s inside that counts.

Steve Martin

Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!

Steve Martin

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.

Steve Martin

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.

Steve Martin