The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.
STEVE MARTINI thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.
More Steve Martin Quotes
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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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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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Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled.
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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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You know that look that women get when they want to have sex? Me neither.
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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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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 the size of the nose that matters, it’s what’s inside that counts.
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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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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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No art comes from the conscious mind.
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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.
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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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I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.
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You can’t really conduct your life by one or two phrases.
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