All I’ve ever wanted was an honest week’s pay for an honest day’s work.
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 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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How many people have never raised their hand before?
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Writer’s block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.
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Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!
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Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.
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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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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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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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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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No art comes from the conscious mind.
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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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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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I’ve got to keep breathing. It’ll be my worst business mistake if I don’t.
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