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.

  

  Abraham Benrubi
  • Work
  • Opportunity
  • Because

• There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Real
  • Humble
  • Dignity

• I love downtown L.A .and I relish any opportunity to spend time there.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Time
  • Love
  • Opportunity

• 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.

  

  Kari Matchett
  • Time
  • Opportunity
  • Language

• I am no more humble than my talents require.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Humble
  • Talents

• Your regrets aren't what you did, but what you didn't do. So I take every opportunity.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Opportunity
  • You
  • Regrets

• 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.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Experience
  • Opportunity

• 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.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • World
  • Money
  • Opportunity

• As an artist, you have an opportunity to get in and move things around in people.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • People
  • Opportunity

• 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.

  

  Mary Barra
  • Time
  • World
  • Father

• 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.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • People
  • Help
  • Opportunity

• 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.

  

  Byron Dorgan
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• I never thought I'd have the opportunity to visit another culture.

  

  Marion Cotillard
  • Culture
  • Opportunity

• Honestly, there isn't anywhere in the world that I can say I would never travel to, given the opportunity.

  

  Christie Laing
  • World
  • Opportunity
  • Travel

• For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all.

  

  Paul Wolfowitz
  • Opportunity
  • Risk

• 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.

  

  Eddie Alvarez
  • Long
  • Career
  • Opportunity

• I, sir, I just like to work. I'm humble.

  

  Bruce McCulloch
  • Work
  • Humble

• Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Opportunity
  • Kindness

• When actors have the opportunity to play a larger-than-life icon - my wife did it with Tina Turner, and Jamie Foxx did it with Ray Charles - you have to make a decision how you go in. What do you start with? Where do you begin?

  

  Courtney B. Vance
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Wife

• Dave Sim said in his latest thing of his, 'when you're on the right track, you'll know it, but until you get there, you have to believe you're on the right track'. Interesting little conundrum. It's not easy.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Believe
  • Interesting
  • Easy

• For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Time
  • Long
  • Women

• Yeah, romantic comedies are the hardest movies to make. Maybe one works a year.

  

  Dylan McDermott
  • Romantic

• My vampire boss, who would like to maybe be my boyfriend, just dropped in to tell me he was running away because Morganville’s too dangerous.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Running
  • Boss
  • Boyfriend

• Comedy makes you humble. Because there are so many opportunities to miss, and strike out.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Opportunity
  • Humble