Steve Martin Quotes

I have found that-- just as in real life--imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience.

Steve Martin

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• Women are blessed with energy - a power which is unique. I have been very fortunate to have played strong women and explored their strengths through my films.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Women
  • Power
  • Strong

• The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Great
  • Together
  • Parents

• Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.

  

  Mae West
  • Never
  • Two
  • Take

• I read Shakespeare when I was 14 because it's what we were taught.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Read
  • Because
  • Shakespeare

• When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Really
  • Little
  • Crystal

• I've really loved steampunk for a long time, ever since 'Wild Wild West,' and it's always been a genre and an era that's fascinated me. But so often it's set in England, and that doesn't really resonate with me, or maybe it just seems a little overdone.

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • Time
  • Me
  • Genre

• I am extremely left brain dominant, probably 95%-5%. The feeling side of my brain is not really strong.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Feeling
  • Brain
  • Dominant

• The purpose of Plan Columbia was to deal with the increased cultivation and illegal activity associated with that cultivation concerning narco trafficking in Columbia.

  

  Rand Beers
  • Purpose
  • Plan
  • Activity

• Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Knowledge
  • Predict
  • Those

• I love cartoons, I love comic books and graphic novels. 'Batman: The Animated Series' was a huge influence on me when I was younger.

  

  Kari Wahlgren
  • Influence
  • Novels
  • Younger

• If I didn't play tennis I don't know where I'd be.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Know
  • Play
  • Tennis

• There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Men
  • Women
  • Step

• I was one of the only ones there interested in acting. You find when you're doing school plays that a lot of people there were on punishment, or something.

  

  Sam Riley
  • People
  • School
  • Acting

• I always had this New York fantasy of living in a glass high-rise.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • High
  • Always
  • New York

• Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.

  

  Walter Lord
  • She
  • Birthday
  • Lit

• Gun violence in the U.S. is an epidemic.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Violence
  • Gun
  • Epidemic

• Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.

  

  Jack Wagner
  • Reality
  • Stress
  • Touch

• The building is a domed structure made of white marble inlaid with colourful gemstones in the shapes of flowers. Passage from the Quran are inlaid in black marble.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Black
  • Quran

• I fear my ignorance.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Fear
  • Ignorance

• I'm not the kind of person that can do the same thing over and over and over, so that's why touring, playing in a different venue every night, in front of a different audience, is so rewarding, you know, because it always feels fresh.

  

  Jake Shimabukuro
  • Different
  • Why
  • Night

• We are fortunate to have some of the greatest and best teachers in the world, but we want to make sure that those few that try to sneak through the system are caught in advance.

  

  Jon Porter
  • World

• I love teaching creative writing, and I think I'm good at it, but in a different life, I could have been teaching elementary school.

  

  Alexi Zentner
  • Life
  • Good
  • Different

• Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before. And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenly creature or into a hellish creature...

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• I have found that-- just as in real life--imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Life
  • Real
  • Imagination