Steve Martin Quotes

I knew I wanted to be in comedy but the path of least resistance was doing stand-up in folk music clubs where I could get on stage. I guess you could get up no matter how bad you were and you didn't have to audition. You just got up. Everything else required an audition and if you auditioned for a TV show, you would stand in line with a hundred other people. But at the clubs, it was okay just to get up, so that's why I started in stand-up.

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• I think I am very hands-on mother. I am very strict, and my daughter keeps telling me, 'You are too hard on me,' and I keep telling her, 'I have to be hard because if I am not hard, you will not learn the lessons that I want you to learn.' I think it is really important to be that way.

  

  Kajol
  • Important
  • Mother
  • Way

• I want to show every part of me and every color of me. And I think, growing up Albanian, I wanted to bring that to light.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Up
  • Think
  • Want

• My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.

  

  Lance Loud
  • Freedom
  • Value
  • Lust

• I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Money
  • Book
  • House

• I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • World
  • Want
  • I Can

• I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Book
  • Want
  • Thoughts

• I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • America
  • Think
  • Teach

• Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Tolerance
  • Ethics
  • Beliefs

• I trained in medicine in India, and after that, I chose psychiatry as my specialty, much to the dismay of my mother and all my family members who kind of thought neurosurgery would be a more respectable option for their brilliant son.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Son

• Facebook now is mostly about people you know. In the future it could be about people you know less but are more important.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • People
  • Important
  • Future

• I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Government
  • Happiness
  • Pursue

• I don't mean to diminish the job, it's a good job and a real pressure job. But I don't think a relief pitcher should ever be the most valuable player of a league. We only play in maybe half of the games. Being a relief pitcher means part-time employment. We're bench players, and bench players shouldn't be M.V.P.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Time
  • Good
  • Real

• Washing dishes as a 17-year-old in an Oxford college and seeing the privileged lifestyles of the undergraduates there convinced me that a system that allowed luxury for the few at the expense of the many needed to be challenged.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Me
  • College
  • Luxury

• Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Good
  • God
  • Feel Good

• Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Mind
  • Like
  • Wall

• Whenever I cook, I think of Spanish music, so I always have to listen to some sort of salsa. It gets your body going.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Music
  • Think
  • Body

• I loved the writing process. I loved it.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Writing
  • Process
  • Loved

• As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • People
  • Children
  • Job

• I wanted to create a body of work that I was proud of. It's come from honesty and integrity, without forcing anything from myself, the ideas had to come instinctively and organically. Whether that translates to people in that way, it's kind of out of my hands now.

  

  Jack Garratt
  • People
  • Work
  • Proud

• A lot of people do come here for lobster. My four brothers, they all lobster . . . along with my dad, my two nephews, my grandson and a couple of friends.

  

  Ann Miller
  • People
  • Friends
  • Lobster

• A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumour, and survival a thing beyond the bounds of possibility.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Death
  • Knowledge
  • Ambition

• It's going to be a process with this team, ... So we're not going to see a finished product for a while.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Team
  • Process

• To be quite honest with you, a lot of people don't realize that Nikki Sixx and I did Brides of Destruction after the lawsuit.

  

  John Corabi Mötley Crüe
  • Honest
  • Realize
  • Lawsuit

• I knew I wanted to be in comedy but the path of least resistance was doing stand-up in folk music clubs where I could get on stage. I guess you could get up no matter how bad you were and you didn't have to audition. You just got up. Everything else required an audition and if you auditioned for a TV show, you would stand in line with a hundred other people. But at the clubs, it was okay just to get up, so that's why I started in stand-up.

  

  Steve Martin
  • People
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