Steve Martin Quotes

I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I'm sure that's some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind of shy and reserved, so there's a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out.

Steve Martin

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• Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.

  

  Callie Thorne
  • God
  • Believe
  • Love

• What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Men
  • Women
  • Free

• Remember this: classics never make a comeback. They wait for that perfect moment to take the spotlight from overdone, tired trends.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Remember
  • Perfect
  • Moment

• I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Life
  • God
  • Blessings

• I have a great office.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Great
  • Office

• The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.

  

  Garrett Graff
  • Positive
  • Influence
  • Media

• I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • World
  • Movie
  • Think

• As a culture, working-class white Americans like myself had no heroes. We loved the military but had no George S. Patton figure in the modern army. I doubt my neighbours could even name a high-ranking military officer.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • High
  • Culture
  • Myself

• I'm not bothered about what others are doing. All I want to do is excel in whatever it is that I do.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Want
  • Doing
  • Others

• I was able to do well for myself, make a statement in the league. I had a heck of a time doing it, but at the end of the day, it's about me and my family and being comfortable and being fun.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Time
  • Family
  • Fun

• It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Great
  • Career
  • Sometimes

• Henceforth, we shall be happy to be a free citizen in an independent country.

  

  Bao Dai
  • Country
  • Happy
  • Free

• I want to tell President Sarkozy - and through him, all the French people - that they were our support, our light.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • People
  • Light
  • Support

• The English playwrights of the '50s and '60s didn't really keep writing or getting produced, while the Irish did. There's encouragement for the younger ones also in the fact that Ireland is exceptional in its ability to make theater part of the national dialogue, and it reaches to all four corners of the country.

  

  Garry Hynes
  • Writing
  • Country
  • English

• The blood will follow where the knife is driven,The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.

  

  Edward Young

• 'Farscape' is a story about family. It's a story about creating life in a harsh environment. That's what a lot of people relate to in the story.

  

  Ben Browder
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms.

  

  Don McLean
  • School
  • Job
  • Singing

• With so many young playwrights, the true craft of writing for living voices is not what it used to be. They write for attention spans of 10 minutes between adverts.

  

  Athol Fugard
  • Writing
  • True
  • Attention

• We lived in one of those half-basement apartments, and on our first night of being in America, someone reached through the grate that protects the window and stole our laundry detergent - which wasn't a big deal, but it felt symbolic when I heard about it later as an adult.

  

  Jenny Zhang
  • America
  • Night

• We have to be careful about creating more rules.

  

  Paul Parker
  • Rules
  • Creating
  • Careful

• I don't care what other people say. The important pressure, you put on yourself. The pressure that others put on you? I ignore it.

  

  Adolfo Cambiaso
  • People
  • Important
  • Ignore

• I am my own worst enemy. My friends and family will say, 'You've got everything going for you right now', and I say, 'Oh yes, but!' Which is not a good way to be.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Good
  • Family
  • Friends

• I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I'm sure that's some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind of shy and reserved, so there's a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out.

  

  Steve Martin
  • People
  • School
  • Kind