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.
STEVE MARTINI’ve got to keep breathing. It’ll be my worst business mistake if I don’t.
More Steve Martin Quotes
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Be so good they can’t ignore you.
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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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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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A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
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The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer.
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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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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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I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the words.
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Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.
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No art comes from the conscious mind.
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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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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 believe the United States should allow all foreigners in this country, provided they can speak our native language… Apache.
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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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I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
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