I’m not trying to be a big shot or anything like that, but I get my drinks half price.
STEVE MARTINDespite 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.
More Steve Martin Quotes
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I started a grease fire at McDonald’s – threw a match in the cook’s hair.
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It was essential that I never show doubt about what I was doing.
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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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No art comes from the conscious mind.
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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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It’s pain that changes our lives.
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Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.
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The banjo is such a happy instrument–you can’t play a sad song on the banjo – it always comes out so cheerful.
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You know that look that women get when they want to have sex? Me neither.
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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.
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Some people have a way with words, and other people; oh, uh, not have way.
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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.
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There’s someone out there for everyone – even if you need a pickaxe, a compass, and night goggles to find them.
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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.
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