Steve Martin Quotes

It's spooky to look at yourself, because you are never quite what you think you are. And you are never as good looking as the person you are acting with, or something like that. So I learned to stay away from it because it was giving me more negative feelings than positive ones.

Steve Martin

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• Feelings
• Acting
• Looks
• Persons
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• Since I started acting, I've always been aware of the sort of 'beastly entity' that is America and Hollywood, and semi-consciously, I devised a kind of route in - I'd seen a lot of people try and fail.

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • People
  • America
  • Acting

• You should see all the negative things that the Romanian press writes about me.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Me
  • See
  • Negative

• Proactive giving is what you do when you've found your passion. It expresses your values, interests and concerns. It engages not just your dollars, but also your mind, time, skills and networks - the philanthropic equivalent of leaning in, rather than leaning back. Most importantly, proactive giving is something you want to do.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Giving

• For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Experience
  • Me
  • Negative

• I feel creatively vibrant. I have some great friends; I feel like I'm capable of giving a lot to the world. And ultimately, that's what I really care about, is just giving.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • World
  • Great
  • Friends

• I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Me
  • Positive
  • Motivated

• By preventing pneumonia and other diseases, we are giving men, women and children the chance to live healthy productive lives and participate in the global economy. In doing so, we are not only enhancing their futures - we are enhancing our own.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Men
  • Women
  • Live

• I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Up
  • Good
  • Giving

• You have to respect your parents. They are giving you an at-bat. If you're an entrepreneur and go into the family business, you want to grow fast. Patience is important. But respect the other party... My dad and I pulled it off because we really respect each other.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Important
  • Family
  • Business

• What's nice about concrete is that it looks unfinished.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Nice
  • Looks
  • Concrete

• You have to be really open to your acting partners and believe in the story.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Believe
  • Acting
  • Story

• I took a route of acting, rather than starmaking, so it cost me a lot financially.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Me
  • Acting
  • Cost

• Careless indifference and bodily restlessness in meditation cause negative vibrations.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Meditation
  • Negative

• If someone looks genuinely interested and asks me a deeply personal question, I'll give the answer. I'm too open.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Question
  • Interested
  • Answer

• Back when the concept of organ transplants qualified as science fiction, novelist Maurice Renard wrote a thriller called 'Les Mains d'Orlac.' Call it a bastard offspring of 'Frankenstein;' its plot revolved around the old theme of Science Giving Us Stuff We Shouldn't Have - in this particular case, restoring severed body parts.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Science
  • Giving
  • Body

• Every year, I looked forward to Oprah Winfrey's Favorite Things episode. I watched with my notebook computer in my lap so I could Google the items and order them for the friends and family on my holiday gift-giving list.

  

  Lori Wilde
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Giving

• Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant.

  

  Ann Voskamp
  • World
  • God
  • Giving

• I eat healthily and exercise, and I'm not giving up and saying I'm too old - I'm just determined to keep on marching with enthusiasm and interest and curiosity.

  

  Ellen Burstyn
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Exercise

• You know what I hate? I hate people who give me plants. The whole giving someone plants - it's like giving someone a pet. I'm giving you responsibility, I'm giving you a thing that you now have to take care of for, like, a year until it dies, and then I'm giving you sadness and guilt.

  

  Chelsea Cain
  • People
  • Giving
  • Hate

• True love is doing what is good for a person. False love is doing only that which causes that person to love you more.

  

  Warren Murphy
  • Love
  • True
  • Persons

• There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors.

  

  Estelle Parsons
  • Acting
  • Actors
  • Sadness

• The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Heart
  • Free
  • Way

• Every now and again, a painting will get away from my control and take over. Sometimes it's a good thing. Sometimes it's a giant drooling hairy thing with pointy teeth. You know how it is.

  

  Ursula Vernon
  • Good
  • Control
  • Painting

• It's spooky to look at yourself, because you are never quite what you think you are. And you are never as good looking as the person you are acting with, or something like that. So I learned to stay away from it because it was giving me more negative feelings than positive ones.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Giving
  • Feelings
  • Acting