Steve Martin Quotes

What is a movie star? A movie star is many things. They can be tall, short, thin, or skinny. They can be Democrats... or skinny.

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• Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.

  

  Yael Stone
  • People
  • Different
  • Together

• At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • Humor
  • Going
  • Grandparents

• I'll tell you something, and this is true: I've never been able to write a film which I didn't respect. I just can't do it. I'm very happy about all the films I haven't done.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Done
  • True
  • Happy

• Aluminum is the most common metal in the earth's crust, almost twice as abundant as iron. And one common class of aluminum minerals, collectively called alum, has been in use since at least Greek and Roman times.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Earth
  • Class
  • Greek

• I've had the privilege of meeting and/or interviewing most of the top metal and hard rock artists at various points in my career and sharing their stories and music with millions of fans on air through TV and radio.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Music
  • Career
  • Rock

• I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir.

  

  Fawn Hall
  • Think
  • Yourself
  • Citizen

• I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.

  

  Yelawolf
  • World
  • Great
  • Success

• I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Imagine
  • First
  • Complicated

• I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Food
  • Appreciate
  • Evolution

• Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Religion
  • Islam

• 'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Life
  • Fall
  • Story

• I'm just going to be myself; there's no reason for me to try and go out there and put a certain facade on or emphasize, 'Hey, I'm this. You need to believe it.' I just want to be the best that I can be, and if people like me, that's great, and if they don't, they don't.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • People
  • Great
  • Believe

• Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Japanese
  • Attacked
  • Destroyers

• But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Earth
  • Down
  • Window

• Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Like
  • Literature
  • Camera

• Shallowness and ignorance have been our lot in the mass consumer societies we inhabit, where we were too distracted to act politically, apart from periodically deputing political elites to take life-and-death decisions on our behalf.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Life
  • Death
  • Political

• We have learned the lines of good taste through history and our sense of guilt, be it post-colonial or post-Holocaust.

  

  Patrick Chappatte
  • Good
  • History
  • Guilt

• My mum is, like, my biggest fan, and she's the one who will basically do all the publicity for me back home... She'll constantly be talking to me saying, 'Dan, what's going on? We've heard this. Tell us about it! Dad wants to know!' And so I'll give them as much information as I can, and Mom and Dad are both my biggest fans.

  

  Dan Feuerriegel
  • Home
  • Dad
  • Mom

• Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Earth
  • Universe
  • Poetry

• I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Think
  • Successful
  • Late

• Sometimes there's something that a writer doesn't see or a producer doesn't see when he's looking at a shot.

  

  Aldis Hodge

• It's not just global warming, it's not just a loss of biodiversity, it's not just the pollution of our oceans and the clearing of our rainforests and all these complicated systems, The [11th Hour] movie talks about the world economy, it talks about politics, it talks about personal transformation and environmental consciousness that we need to have in this generation to implement a lot of these changes that need to occur.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • World
  • Movie
  • Ocean

• Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • High
  • Fashion

• What is a movie star? A movie star is many things. They can be tall, short, thin, or skinny. They can be Democrats... or skinny.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Movie
  • Star
  • Democrat