There’s no better way to learn something than to learn it in front of an audience. Your terror drives you.
STEVE MARTINI believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
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Some people have a way with words, and other people; oh, uh, not have way.
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Thankfully, perseverance is a good substitute for talent.
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I will do anything to look like him – except, of course, exercise or eat right.
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It’s not what you know, it’s what you think you know.
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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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Chaos in the midst of chaos isn’t funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
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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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Be so good they can’t ignore you.
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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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You can’t really conduct your life by one or two phrases.
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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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The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.
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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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Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.
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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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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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It’s pain that changes our lives.
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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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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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I just downloaded eleven hundred books onto my Kindle, and now I can’t lift it.
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Dinosaurs did not walk with humans. The evolutionary record says different. They gambled.
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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 have found that– just as in real life–imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience.
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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.
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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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When I die, now don’t think that I’m a nut, don’t want no fancy funeral, just one like old King Tut.
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