Steve Martin Quotes

Whether I'm involved in creating something or not, it's a personal issue of do I respect it. But you can only know that five or ten years later.

Steve Martin

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• I don't think I'm the world's most die-hard sci-fi fan, but I definitely grew up watching 'Star Trek' religiously - all of them: the original, 'Next Generation,' 'Deep Space Nine,' 'Voyager.' I think sci-fi has an important place in the cinema world. Fantasy is a big part of why films actually exist.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Up
  • World
  • Important

• The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Effort
  • Inevitable
  • Mode

• A lot of people don't even listen to albums start to finish, but I do - for sure.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Start
  • Finish

• Not from without us, only from within, Comes or can ever come upon us light Whereby the soul keeps ever truth in sight. No truth, no strength, no comfort man may win, No grace for guidance, no release from sin, Save of his own soul's giving.

  

  Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • May
  • Truth
  • Soul

• The successful companies try to keep the new entrants down. Now that's great for a company like ours. We make more money that way because we have less competition and less innovation. But for the country as a whole, it's horrible.

  

  Charles Koch
  • Great
  • Country
  • Money

• When you become successful on the level that Fleetwood Mac did, it gives you financial freedom, which should allow you to follow your impulses. But oddly enough, they become much harder to follow.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Freedom
  • Financial

• I think it has helped that I am so curious about what has been happening to me and that I have enjoyed watching the changes through my life, you know? I didn't know what was going to happen to me next.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Life

• In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much to film.

  

  Bruce Beresford
  • Music

• Onstage, I was never the ingenue.

  

  Kristen Johnston

• I like to take up something that is challenging. I like to stretch myself.

  

  Christine Lahti
  • Up

• Life is beautiful but people are crazy.

  

  Charles Osgood
  • People
  • Life
  • Beautiful

• I was doing a movie, 'Diana,' and I pulled aside the guy who was making the nose for Naomi Watts and said, 'I'm about to do 'Cyrano.' So he did various Photoshops of different looks that might work. I was really against any kind of 'Pinocchio' theater thing. The way that it's described in the play is this disfigurement.

  

  Douglas Hodge
  • Work
  • Different
  • Movie

• I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted.

  

  Dennis Quaid
  • Important

• I think if you look at yesterday's New York Times poll, particularly when you judge Democrats in Congress versus the Republicans in Congress, people put a little more faith, or even a little more than a little more faith in the Democrats in Congress.

  

  John Podesta
  • People
  • Faith
  • Judge

• There's a final exam in venture every four to six years. The scary thing is you need to get an 'A' in every discipline. You need to be on generational planning, need to be on great deal flow, need be on great outcomes, you need to be on great company building.

  

  David Sze
  • Great
  • Discipline
  • Scary

• The growth that we are targeting for our bank is in line with the banking industry.

  

  Chanda Kochhar
  • Growth

• Our legislation addresses broadcasts over the public airwaves, but I hope the cable and satellite industries see the importance of this issue and voluntarily create a family tier of programming and offer culturally responsible products.

  

  Charles W. Pickering
  • Family
  • Hope

• 'I’ll drive. You navigate.' He grinned. 'I judge people by how well they read maps.'

  

  Jane Yolen
  • People
  • Judge

• Mostly it's like, I get inspired by something and I want to learn that part of filmmaking, I want to delve into that kind of depth. And leading, also, a lot of people. A lot of people, for two years of their life they follow me, and they believe what I believe in. So that's some responsibility and I'd like to make it worth the effort.

  

  Ang Lee
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• People say to me 'you're successful, what are you crying about?'. I'm crying about the people. I'm crying about their daughters. Our daughters, as one family. What good is it. What good is anything that everyone can't have. Every ism. They think we're done with racism. What about elitism, what about separatism, what about classism? That's all.

  

  Kanye West
  • People
  • Good
  • Thinking

• I am kind of a man of mystery. I like not being in the spotlight. I kind of like being in the background. I like to observe a lot of things. Nothing really rattles me so I don’t stress very much about a lot of things. I have that Buddha mentality.

  

  Chris Kilmore Incubus
  • Man
  • Kind
  • Mystery

• It's disappointing being a Canadian and having friends on that team but that's the way it goes. It's the Olympics. It's disappointing for every Canadian but over the years you've seen the parity with all the teams because it's the best players in the world.

  

  Darren McCarty
  • Team
  • Olympics
  • Disappointing

• Whether I'm involved in creating something or not, it's a personal issue of do I respect it. But you can only know that five or ten years later.

  

  Steve Martin