No art comes from the conscious mind.
STEVE MARTINTalking about music is like dancing about architecture.
More Steve Martin Quotes
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I will do anything to look like him – except, of course, exercise or eat right.
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You know that look that women get when they want to have sex? Me neither.
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I started a grease fire at McDonald’s – threw a match in the cook’s hair.
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Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.
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I could never be a woman, ’cause I’d just stay home and play with my breasts all day.
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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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How many people have never raised their hand before?
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The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.
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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.
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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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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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When I die, now don’t think that I’m a nut, don’t want no fancy funeral, just one like old King Tut.
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It’s pain that changes our lives.
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I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
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Don’t have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.
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I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.
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Writer’s block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.
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It’s not what you know, it’s what you think you know.
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There’s no better way to learn something than to learn it in front of an audience. Your terror drives you.
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It was essential that I never show doubt about what I was doing.
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Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!
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Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
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Be so good they can’t ignore you.
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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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I have found that– just as in real life–imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience.
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