Steve Martin is an American actor, comedian, writer, filmmaker, and musician.
Be so good they can’t ignore you.
A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.
Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.
― Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life
It’s pain that changes our lives.
Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you’re an idiot.
If you’ve got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you’ve got 71 cents left; But if you’ve got seventeen grand and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you’ve still got seventeen grand. There’s a math lesson for you.
..it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest questionable shift in tone at the end of a spoken word that can plow most deeply into the heart.
I’ve heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone.
Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you’ll be a mile away and have his shoes.
I understood that as much as I had resisted the outside, as much as I had constricted my life, as much as I had closed and narrowed the channels into me, there were still many takers for the quiet heart.
― Steve Martin, The Pleasure of My Company
I have found that– just as in real life–imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience.”
― Steve Martin, An Object of Beauty
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