Steve Martin Quotes
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The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.
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I believe in eight of the ten commandments. I believe in going to church every Sunday... unless there's a game on.
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Why sip from a tea cup, when you can drink from the river.
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Your only guidepost is your own instinct and judicious editing. In my stand-up act I learned that in the first 10 minutes I could say anything and it would get a laugh. Then I'd better deliver. In the movie it's the same thing. You get a lot of laughs when people first sit down and then the story better kick in. Many years in front of an audience, I would hope, give me a sense of what works.
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Talent is the ability to say things well, but genius is the ability to, well, say things.
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She was feeling her bohemian oats.
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Anyone who's ever worked with Meryl Streep always says the same thing: can that woman act! And what's with all the Hitler memorabilia?
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I have found that-- just as in real life--imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience.
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You can't make something beautiful by trying to make something beautiful. Something becomes beautiful in the process of trying to be something else.
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Ah, yes. I remember my first beer.
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These days it's hard to look at a poodle without thinking what a good meal he would make.
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Some nights, alone, he thinks of her, and some nights, alone, she thinks of him. Some night these thoughts, separated by miles and time zones, occur at the same objective moment, and Ray and Mirabelle are connected without ever knowing it.
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I was not self-destructive, though I almost destroyed myself. In the end, I turned away from stand-up with a tired swivel of my head...
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Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
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It was essential that I never show doubt about what I was doing.
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I always think back to my high school days and realize all the people who were so popular then are nowhere now and all the people who were steadfast and steady-going are somewhere. So high school doesn't necessarily translate to later in life.
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Mirabelle is not affected by a man’s failures to approach her, as her own self-depreciating attitude never allows the idea that he would in the first place.
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I guess I wouldn't believe in anything if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch.
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I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point.
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As a human being on Earth, you can't imagine friendship not being important in some other solar system or some other planet, or some other context of beings that are conscious. We even see it in animals. It is important for people on Earth to reach out or reach into someone.
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With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you're never off the hook.
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I am a wild and crazy guy!
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I've decided to take up smoking, my doctor said I wasn't getting enough tar.
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I was deeply unhappy, but I didn't know it because I was so happy all the time.