It’s not the size of the nose that matters, it’s what’s inside that counts.
STEVE MARTINThrough the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.
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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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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How to make a million dollars: First, get a million dollars.
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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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How many people have never raised their hand before?
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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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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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Now let’s repeat the non-conformists’ oath: I promise to be different! I promise to be unique! I promise not to repeat things other people say! Good!
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It’s not what you know, it’s what you think you know.
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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 love money. I love everything about it.
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I just downloaded eleven hundred books onto my Kindle, and now I can’t lift it.
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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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First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.
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Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
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