Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.
STEVE MARTINDinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled.
More Steve Martin Quotes
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You can’t really conduct your life by one or two phrases.
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I will do anything to look like him – except, of course, exercise or eat right.
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With comedy, you never know until you put it in front of an audience. You shoot it and a year later you have no idea if it’s going to work. And then you get the response. It’s great when it’s good.
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Be so good they can’t ignore you.
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It’s not the size of the nose that matters, it’s what’s inside that counts.
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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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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 believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.
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A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
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Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
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I guess I wouldn’t believe in anything if it weren’t for my lucky astrology mood watch.
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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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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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First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.
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I just downloaded eleven hundred books onto my Kindle, and now I can’t lift it.
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Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!
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Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.
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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 was deeply unhappy, but I didn’t know it because I was so happy all the time.
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Thankfully, perseverance is a good substitute for talent.
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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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A father carries pictures where his money used to be.
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It’s not what you know, it’s what you think you know.
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Always make room for the unexpected in yourself.
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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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It was essential that I never show doubt about what I was doing.
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