Steve Martin Quotes
Comedy makes you humble. Because there are so many opportunities to miss, and strike out.
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It's because of 'ER' that I've gotten the opportunity to get the work.
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There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
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I love downtown L.A .and I relish any opportunity to spend time there.
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If only I could step back into the time of old movies, if only I could be given the opportunity to do what Katharine Hepburn did or what Rosalind Russell did. Those kinds of characters, that kind of patter, that kind of language, that kind of script. They don't exist any more.
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I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.
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I am no more humble than my talents require.
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Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity.
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He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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I get to delve into some of the most creative experience I've had as an actor on 'Mr. Robot.' I think there's a wide opportunity for actors to do that now more so than ever on television.
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Put the money into schools. Rational ones that train young minds to think, to demand that persons in authority show the evidence for the ideas they push. Do that, and we won’t need to provide a world for the Sacred Brethren who, given the opportunity, would run everyone else off the planet.
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As an artist, you have an opportunity to get in and move things around in people.
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My father was a die maker for 39 years, so I had a basic understanding of the automobile industry and what the manufacturing world was like, just from the opportunity to spend time with him - just talking, because he was a car buff.
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I feel a responsibility to try and give back. I see young people out there who are trained, and any way I can help them and give them an opportunity is gratifying.
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There is no social program in this country that is as important as a good job that pays well, that gives someone an opportunity to go to work, have some security, have benefits, and take care of their family and have a good life.
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I never thought I'd have the opportunity to visit another culture.
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There is an opportunity to consolidate the North American region as a more competitive region, a more productive region that will be more competitive than other blocs that have integrated in the rest of the world.
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Honestly, there isn't anywhere in the world that I can say I would never travel to, given the opportunity.
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For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all.
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Fighting, for me, is not a career - it's an opportunity. I'm going to take full advantage of it and do it as long as I can. As long as my body lets me and I'm healthy enough to do it naturally, I'll do it.
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The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities.
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A thing when I was writing the movie 'The hateful eight' was, I hate The Confederate cause. I've always felt that they are our Nazis and the rebel flag was our swastika. So I totally have no love for that whole romance for that Antebellum time period.
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It's a terrible thing when a person dies, whatever the circumstances. A hole opens up in the world, and we need to pay the proper respects. If we don't, the hole will never be filled in again.
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Comedy makes you humble. Because there are so many opportunities to miss, and strike out.
