Steve Martin Quotes

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• In film, you are a totally different person than in the video.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Different
  • You
  • Film

• I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Power
  • House
  • Leader

• My whole plan in my head has always been, if I go a year without acting, it's time to go home; it's time to go back to Montreal.

  

  Vanessa Lengies
  • Time
  • Home
  • Year

• My music is based on melody and when I play the piano, it's as if I'm singing with them. When you try to transform that into a vocal, there was very little adjustment.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Play
  • Singing

• It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Life
  • Motto
  • Be Yourself

• In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.

  

  Ira Glass
  • You
  • Daily
  • Journalism

• There is no real agreement among scholars as to whether Homer and Hesiod were contemporaries or whether Homer came a hundred or so years later or earlier. How could there be, given that both poets recited and sang in an oral culture.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Real
  • Culture
  • Years

• I was walking around bored one day, and I started filming stuff with my cellphone. There are all these shows where people are trying to do these outrageous stunts, and I thought it would be funny to do all these stunts that aren't outrageous but then act like they are.

  

  Harland Williams
  • People
  • Trying
  • Funny

• My inspiration is always love and history, and my passion to a fault is craftsmanship and responsibility. Those are the simplest things. It goes beyond jewelry. It's every part of my life.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Life
  • Love
  • History

• My 9-year-old daughter can recite every line from 'Easy Rider,' and that is not an easy song to do. She raps all of Nicki Minaj and everything; she's dope. She has my musical ear for sure. She sings, and she's beautiful. It's very powerful.

  

  Action Bronson
  • She
  • Beautiful
  • Song

• I gave up the notion of writing the life of Joan of Arc, as I found that there was absolutely no new material to be gleaned on her history - in fact, she had been thrashed out.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Life
  • Up
  • Writing

• For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action. This action becomes multiplied by the masses, and is made tangible when leadership changes course due to the weight of the movement's voice.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Small
  • Action
  • Leadership

• I hope my kids can experience the seasons and a climate that's sustainable. The idea that things are going to be so very different for them is slightly scary.

  

  David Harewood
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Kids

• It gives me more breadth as an actor and as an artist to not be pigeonholed.

  

  Jeff Bridges

• My formal speaking career began before a group of 10 third-graders. We drew pictures of my home in Rwanda. I told them about my mother's huge garden and our mango tree. The lessons I taught were simple. Play nicely. Take care of plants. Take care of people.

  

  Clemantine Wamariya
  • People
  • Home
  • Mother

• My parents were strict and taught me the proper fundamentals that I would use in my life. They taught me commitment to work hard.

  

  Billy Casper
  • Life
  • Work
  • Parents

• I think it's always great to not be the smartest person in the room because I don't want to ever feel like I can't improve upon what I'm doing. I just want to surround myself with people that are better actors than me and better singers and dancers and see what happens.

  

  Drew Seeley
  • People
  • Great

• Journalists are often portrayed as cynical. I often think it's the opposite.

  

  David Grann

• My romantically favorite era is 78, 79 listening to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 4, the live tapes, echo chamber and break beats.

  

  Mohandas Dewese
  • Live
  • Listening

• Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Thinking
  • Poverty
  • Sad

• I'm just being the artist that I would have loved if I was a child.

  

  Dawn Angelique
  • Children
  • Artist
  • Being

• When life does not go our way or we inadvertently make a mistake, it is so easy to make excuses, place blame on others, or argue that circumstances were against us. But we only progress in life to the extent that we take responsibility for our actions and attitudes, and put forth the initiative necessary to create our own circumstances.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Freedom
  • Responsibility
  • Mistake

• I love to play different roles. That's just the kind of actor I am.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Different
  • Kind
  • Play

• To have someone play off and be with a band is more pleasurable.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Play
  • Band