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.

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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

• The more you read, the better you get at it.

  

  James Patterson

• 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

• I feel like it's been so crazy to get to open for people like Rascal Flatts, Lady A, Billy Currington.

  

  Kelsea Ballerini
  • People
  • Crazy

• Onstage, I was never the ingenue.

  

  Kristen Johnston

• Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them.

  

  Lysette Anthony
  • Suffering
  • Legacy

• 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

• What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?

  

  Bernard Levin
  • World
  • War
  • Pain

• 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 Bolsheviks could not have retained power for two and a half months, let alone two and a half years, without the most rigorous and truly iron discipline in our Party.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Party
  • Discipline
  • Half

• The most peaceable tribes of today were often ravagers of yesteryear and will probably again produce soldiers and murderers in the future.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Future
  • Today

• People forget that it's an acting assignment. You can work with someone for three months, three years or 30 years, and then you move on. I've done I don't know how many films, and I can look at the film and know that I worked with Clint Eastwood, but I'm not still trying to hang out with Clint Eastwood. We did our jobs.

  

  Isaiah Washington
  • People
  • Trying
  • Moving

• My dad was this Jack-of-all-trades, entrepreneur type. I secretly think he may be a spy, when I really think about it and I kind of connect the pieces. That's what led us to moving to Japan when I was four.

  

  Bishop Briggs
  • May
  • Dad
  • Moving

• 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