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.
STEVE MARTINFirst the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.
More Steve Martin Quotes
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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’ve got to keep breathing. It’ll be my worst business mistake if I don’t.
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There’s no better way to learn something than to learn it in front of an audience. Your terror drives you.
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A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
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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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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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It’s pain that changes our lives.
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I started a grease fire at McDonald’s – threw a match in the cook’s hair.
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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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I could never be a woman, ’cause I’d just stay home and play with my breasts all day.
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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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Thankfully, perseverance is a good substitute for talent.
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Some people have a way with words, and other people; oh, uh, not have way.
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Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.
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You can’t really conduct your life by one or two phrases.
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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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The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.
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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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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 conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer.
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You know that look that women get when they want to have sex? Me neither.
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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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I have found that– just as in real life–imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience.
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Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
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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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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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