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.
STEVE MARTINNow 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!
More Steve Martin Quotes
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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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A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
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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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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 really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the words.
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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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Be so good they can’t ignore you.
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Some people have a way with words, and other people; oh, uh, not have way.
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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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I’m not trying to be a big shot or anything like that, but I get my drinks half price.
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It’s pain that changes our lives.
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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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Chaos in the midst of chaos isn’t funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
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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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