Steve Martin Quotes
I can juggle. I started juggling as a kid. And when I worked at Disneyland, I knew a juggler there named Christopher Faire, and he taught me how to juggle. I used it in my comedy act for a while.
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
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The brain abhors discrepancies.
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My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.
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My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.
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They say making laws is like making sausages. You shouldn't watch. It's the same for acting, especially for the actor who works unconsciously.
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As long as I have a heartbeat, I'm fine. So I just do what I love, and I do it the best that I can. And if it all goes away, I'll just start over.
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If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.
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One should go to the line through the character. You should see their lifestyle in the way they speak.
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The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
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I'd always wanted to be an actress or a model or a singer.
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Together, for over 50 years, King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia have devoted themselves to Spain.
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One of the things about comics is people can linger on images and words as long as they want.
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Larry Hagman is one of the nicest people on the planet. He is so wonderful, so loving, so giving.
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My brother was always in bands and on the road when I was a kid and he was my inspiration. He never made it with a big band, in fact he never made a record. Here he is fifty-something years old.
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Fashion is not interesting unless it has some connection to something outside of that world. It's the same thing with any part of the arts: you can't just take pictures - you have to look at science, to listen to music; you have to be aware of the connections within the world. If you take something in an isolated box, it loses all significance.
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Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.
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Detroit is in my music consciously and subconsciously.
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None of the kids in the neighborhood had dogs. My dad walked in that Labrador, and we started running together and rolling around together like we found each other after years apart. And then, suddenly, some of the other people in the neighborhood started getting dogs, too.
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I'm not really concerned with the outer success.
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As actors, you like to think about the luxury of having choices in your career, but for the most part you kind of take whatever comes your way and hope that you carved out something that you're proud of in the end.
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I can juggle. I started juggling as a kid. And when I worked at Disneyland, I knew a juggler there named Christopher Faire, and he taught me how to juggle. I used it in my comedy act for a while.
