The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer.
STEVE MARTINThankfully, perseverance is a good substitute for talent.
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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I guess I wouldn’t believe in anything if it weren’t for my lucky astrology mood watch.
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Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled.
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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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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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I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.
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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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I’m not trying to be a big shot or anything like that, but I get my drinks half price.
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Some people have a way with words, and other people; oh, uh, not have way.
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Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.
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It was essential that I never show doubt about what I was doing.
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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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It’s pain that changes our lives.
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Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!
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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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