Steve Martin Quotes
You know, a lot of people come to me and they say, "Steve, how can you be so fucking funny?" There's a secret to it, it's no big deal. Before I go out, I put a slice of bologna in each of my shoes. So when I'm on stage, I feel funny.Steve Martin
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I think my numbers speak for themselves.
Jack Youngblood -
When I was younger, I just put off the writing until later in the day, but now I write early every morning to get it done. I can only write for a few hours at a time; after that, my attention fades.
Patrick Modiano -
The water cooler conversation in every job I've had is sports, it's what did you do this weekend, it's 'How are your parents doing?'
Kal Penn -
I am glad and thankful that my husband forced me to start reading for pleasure, as it took me years to listen to him and pick up a book!
Rachel Tucker -
You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.
Mae West -
I have met many people, and everyone's impression of me is based on my career.
Uday Kiran
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In my family, education was something you endured. My parents weren't educated past high school, and the only book in our house was a 'Reader's Digest' condensed book. Can you imagine?
Dawn Steel -
My dad and mom divorced when I was around ten, and I didn't live with him after that, though he was close by and we saw each other weekly. I wasn't really aware that he was a writer; I didn't start reading his writing until I was about fifteen. It occurred to me then that my dad was kind of special; he's still one of my favorite writers.
Andre Dubus III -
In Vancouver, in Sydney and in Orange County, we live among fluorescent stores and streets so brightly lit that you can read a book after dark; in other places across our global body, there are blackouts and curfews every night.
Pico Iyer -
Dreams are the ones that really keep me moving all the time. That's what drives me.
J Balvin -
I just feel my best when I'm all glammed up.
Kim Kardashian -
I understand why biting is seen so badly.
Luis Suarez
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Catfish is not playing guitar no more, he's doing like a home-front thing. He had been in the business around ten years before I got in it, so I guess he's had enough of it.
Bootsy Collins -
I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.
Christian Bale -
Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities, and that's why I'm on TV. I wasn't going to sit around anymore, waiting for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place - I've always done that.
Bette Midler -
I had a bike the first time I moved to L.A. I had a Honda and I got around on that. But I'd never ridden Harleys.
John Travolta -
Don't run down dyed hair and painted faces. There is an extraordinary charm in them, sometimes.
Oscar Wilde -
On the day long after childhood when I suddenly heard of his death, the sky grew dark above my head. I was walking on a Southern highway, and a friend driving in a pony carriage passed me, stopped and said, "Have you heard that Charles Dickens is dead?" It was as if I had been robbed of one of my dearest friends.
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
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The code of the schoolyard, Marge! The rules that teach a boy to be a man. Let's see. Don't tattle. Always make fun of those different from you. Never say anything, unless you're sure everyone feels exactly the same way you do.
Dan Castellaneta -
We don't think about how the songs are going to translate so much during the writing process. Once the song is recorded, and once we're mixing, that's when it occurs to me. Then you start rehearsing to play shows. I never concern myself about how we're going to pull it off live, because I know we'll figure out a way to do it.
Tad Kubler -
You know, a lot of people come to me and they say, "Steve, how can you be so fucking funny?" There's a secret to it, it's no big deal. Before I go out, I put a slice of bologna in each of my shoes. So when I'm on stage, I feel funny.
Steve Martin