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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Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.
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Being a lady does not require silence.
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If you shoot right-handed, the Game Ear works best in the left ear. Many guides and active shooters use two Game Ears to better pinpoint sounds such as a gobbling turkey.
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It often occurs to me that if, against all odds, there is a judgmental God and heaven, it will come to pass that when the pearly gates open, those who had the valor to think for themselves will be escorted to the head of the line, garlanded, and given their own personal audience.
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Yeah, it's fun to be somebody you're not, to bring a character to life.
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Comedy makes you humble. Because there are so many opportunities to miss, and strike out.
