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.
STEVE MARTINThere is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I won’t stand for that.
More Steve Martin Quotes
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I was deeply unhappy, but I didn’t know it because I was so happy all the time.
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I actually learned about sex watching neighborhood dogs. And it was good. Go ahead and laugh. I think the most important thing I learned was: Never let go of the girl’s leg, no matter how hard she tries to shake you off.
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Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.
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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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I started a grease fire at McDonald’s – threw a match in the cook’s hair.
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The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer.
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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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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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It was essential that I never show doubt about what I was doing.
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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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How to make a million dollars: First, get a million dollars.
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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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First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.
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I love money. I love everything about it.
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No art comes from the conscious mind.
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