Steve Martin Quotes

I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.

Steve Martin

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• I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Home

• I have an unfortunate personality.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Funny
  • Personality

• I believe that God wants us to show respect.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Believe
  • Respect

• I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Great
  • True
  • Funny

• Religion provides the only story that is fundamentally consoling in the face of the worst possible experiences - the death of a parent, for instance. In fact, many religions take away the problem entirely, because their adherents ostensibly believe that they're going to be reunited with everyone they love, and death is an illusion.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Death

• If it gets laughs, it's funny.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Funny
  • Humor
  • Laughs

• I was on a path that could've really led to disaster, and the one thing for me that really kept me focused and gave me something to believe in and a sense of self-worth and a discipline was music.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Path

• I think we're the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It's not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Funny

• The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Believe
  • Job
  • Remember

• Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• You know, I said I have this problem that I need to more carefully read Akron's text because it's too much, too much fantasy, and so I am busy with other stuff - it's funny, it's nice to hear that someone is studying that carefully and now I know a little bit more about that.

  

  H. R. Giger
  • Funny
  • Nice
  • Problem

• It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • Believe
  • Action

• When life is good and we have no problems, we can almost let ourselves believe we have no need for God. But in my experience, sometimes the richest blessings come through pain and hard things.

  

  Anne Graham Lotz
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• My act is pretty much me reflecting on what I want to talk about and what I think is funny and what has happened to me.

  

  Brian Posehn
  • Pretty
  • Funny

• The time that Ted and I spend talking about our careers is almost infinitesimally small. We mostly talk about our kids and our grandkids. I think we talk about our careers if something funny happened at work. We're very childlike in many ways.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Time
  • Work
  • Kids

• I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not.

  

  Keenen Ivory Wayans
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Funny

• When they're watching musicals, I've heard people say, 'That's not realistic! Why would they just start singing?' But, I think they can believe it if they try! I mean, science fiction requires a suspension of disbelief, but people allow themselves to sit back and enjoy it anyway.

  

  Jean Louisa Kelly
  • People
  • Believe
  • Why

• I believe in clean skin and using a good cleanser, toner, and moisturiser.

  Jacqueline Fernandez
  • Good
  • Believe

• My mum fought for feminism in her day so instilled in me the importance of equality. She taught me so much about women.

  

  Chris Evans
  • Women
  • She
  • Equality

• So now I just assume that it won't work, and that if it does work, I'll lose it anyway. This is meant to protect me, although it doesn't, because somehow the hope sneakily finds its way in. I'm never aware of the hope until it's gone, whooshed away like a rug pulled from under my feet, each time I hear another "I'm sorry.

  

  Liane Moriarty
  • Time
  • Work
  • Hope

• It wasn't professional, but it was a few levels below the top level. I loved playing football, but my passion was always music. It didn't become a possibility to me until I started playing songs I thought were good. I think it happened during my third song. The dream to become a musician appeared in my heart, and that happened about 2010.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Good
  • Music
  • Heart

• Inner peace doesn't come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Remember
  • Want
  • Peace

• I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Believe
  • Funny
  • Humor