Steve Martin Quotes
When people ask me, ‘how do you make it in show business,’ or whatever, what I always tell them — and nobody ever takes note of it ‘cuz it’s not the answer they wanted to hear…but I always say, ‘Be so good they can’t ignore you.’
Quotes to Explore
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I always wanted to do a Disney movie.
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When my wife passed, I stopped doing interviews and I stopped doing meet-and-greets, mostly because I sort of became this suicide ambassador. Everybody wanted to tell me their story.
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I've never wanted to be the boss.
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I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.
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No, I haven't asked for a guy's number, but I've always wanted to.
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I was absolutely delighted that those shows have been preserved.
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I was really into my studies and wanted to be a doctor.
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Presenting football is something that I love to do. I'm very fortunate being able to do one of the BBC's flagship shows.
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Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
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Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
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The waiters' eyes sparkled and their pencils flew as she proceeded to eviscerate my wallet – paté, Whitstable oysters, a sole, and a favorite salad of the Nizam of Hyderabad made of shredded five-pound notes.
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We had to work five back-to-back shows, forty-five minutes on, fifteen minutes off. That's just an awful lot of singing.
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Everyone—whether straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender—should be allowed to show their true colors, and be accepted and loved for who they are.
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Dancing in high heels is kind of tough. I learn the dances without the heels, and then we add them. We just practice, and I get used to it. My feet hurt really badly at the end of the shows, but it's fun. While it's happening it's fun. I feel tall.
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Directing a film was something I was yearning to do. I always wanted to see if I had the capacity to be a good storyteller.
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I don't want to show deleted scenes. I don't like an audience looking at what the movie might have been - if it's in the movie, it's in the movie.
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Love Me Do, the first song we recorded, John was supposed to sing the lead, but they changed their minds and asked me to sing lead because they wanted John to play harmonica.
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The only thing that happens when I'm teaching is that I hope there are some students out there in the class who will ask questions.
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Adversity does not make us frail; it only shows us how frail we are.
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When I was growing up, the really, really cool super heroes were all male - so I wanted to be them.
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I divide the world into learners and non-learners.
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The most violent expression of God's wrath and justice is seen in the Cross. If ever a person had room to complain for injustice, it was Jesus. He was the only innocent man ever to be punished by God. If we stagger at the wrath of God, let us stagger at the Cross. Here is where our astonishment should be focused.
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When people ask me, ‘how do you make it in show business,’ or whatever, what I always tell them — and nobody ever takes note of it ‘cuz it’s not the answer they wanted to hear…but I always say, ‘Be so good they can’t ignore you.’
