Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!
STEVE MARTINTalking about music is like dancing about architecture.
More Steve Martin Quotes
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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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How many people have never raised their hand before?
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Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled.
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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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I believe the United States should allow all foreigners in this country, provided they can speak our native language… Apache.
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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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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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I have found that– just as in real life–imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience.
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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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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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It’s not the size of the nose that matters, it’s what’s inside that counts.
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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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It was essential that I never show doubt about what I was doing.
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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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The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer.
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