Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.
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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First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.
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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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Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!
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I will do anything to look like him – except, of course, exercise or eat right.
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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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Thankfully, perseverance is a good substitute for talent.
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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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You can’t really conduct your life by one or two phrases.
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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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A father carries pictures where his money used to be.
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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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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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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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I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today 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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