The banjo is such a happy instrument–you can’t play a sad song on the banjo – it always comes out so cheerful.
STEVE MARTINIt’s not what you know, it’s what you think you know.
More Steve Martin Quotes
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I love money. I love everything about it.
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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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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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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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The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer.
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Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.
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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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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’m not trying to be a big shot or anything like that, but I get my drinks half price.
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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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Now let’s repeat the non-conformists’ oath: I promise to be different! I promise to be unique! I promise not to repeat things other people say! Good!
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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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Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.
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I could never be a woman, ’cause I’d just stay home and play with my breasts all day.
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