Steve Martin Quotes

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

Steve Martin

• Play
• Band

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• 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

• I think Slayer is a funky band.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Band
  • Slayer

• On a show like 'Oz,' I was wearing Dickies and a cut-off shirt and a gold cross.

  

  Dean Winters
  • Gold

• I always say Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is my biggest influence. But for painters, I like many, many painters, but I love Francis Bacon the most, and Edward Hopper.

  

  David Lynch The Platters

• I mostly used the studio devices, because I knew what they had. Generally I find I'm happy to use whatever's around. If there's nothing there I'll make something. For example, one of the things I tried doing was getting a tiny loudspeaker and feeding the instruments off the tape through this tiny speaker and then through this huge long plastic tube - about 50 feet long - that they used to clean out the swimming pool in the place where I was staying. You get this really hollow, cavernous, weird sound, a very nice sound. We didn't use it finally, but nonetheless we well could have.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Sound
  • Pool
  • Devices

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

  

  Steve Martin
  • Play
  • Band