Teaching is, after all, a form of show business.
STEVE MARTINThere’s no better way to learn something than to learn it in front of an audience. Your terror drives you.
More Steve Martin Quotes
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There’s someone out there for everyone – even if you need a pickaxe, a compass, and night goggles to find them.
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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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Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled.
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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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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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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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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 just downloaded eleven hundred books onto my Kindle, and now I can’t lift it.
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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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I’m not trying to be a big shot or anything like that, but I get my drinks half price.
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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 could never be a woman, ’cause I’d just stay home and play with my breasts all day.
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I love money. I love everything about it.
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All I’ve ever wanted was an honest week’s pay for an honest day’s work.
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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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I have found that– just as in real life–imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience.
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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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Be so good they can’t ignore you.
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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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Writer’s block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.
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Thankfully, perseverance is a good substitute for talent.
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You know that look that women get when they want to have sex? Me neither.
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It’s pain that changes our lives.
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The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.
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No art comes from the conscious mind.
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