I was deeply unhappy, but I didn’t know it because I was so happy all the time.
STEVE MARTINWith 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.
More Steve Martin Quotes
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It was essential that I never show doubt about what I was doing.
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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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Don’t have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.
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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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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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Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled.
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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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You can’t really conduct your life by one or two phrases.
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No art comes from the conscious mind.
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Thankfully, perseverance is a good substitute for talent.
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Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.
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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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It’s not the size of the nose that matters, it’s what’s inside that counts.
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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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I just downloaded eleven hundred books onto my Kindle, and now I can’t lift it.
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