It was essential that I never show doubt about what I was doing.
STEVE MARTINDon’t have sex man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you have to start talking to them.
More Steve Martin Quotes
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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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Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled.
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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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Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.
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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 could never be a woman, ’cause I’d just stay home and play with my breasts all day.
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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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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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The banjo is such a happy instrument–you can’t play a sad song on the banjo – it always comes out so cheerful.
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You have to get comfortable with your work, you really have to know what you’re doing, and it has to be almost boring to you to be able to do it well.
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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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Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
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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.
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I was always very shy but as I get older I think, What am I being shy for? You just grow weary of your own hang-ups.
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