A friend of mine once asked how to make it in show business and I said "Be so good that they can't… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I'm trying to think of other ones. Oh, yeah, I'd say - somebody would buy something and we'd say, and because you… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
In talking to girls I could never remember the right sequence of things to say. I'd meet a girl and say, Hi,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
You can't make something beautiful by trying to make something beautiful. Something becomes beautiful in the process of trying to be something… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Always do business as if the person you're doing business with is trying to screw you, because he probably is. And if… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
It's very hard sometimes when you can't crack something or can't solve something and you keep trying and trying and you know… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to be a big shot or anything like that, but I get my drinks half price. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I actually learned about sex watching neighborhood dogs. And it was good. Go ahead and laugh. I think the most important thing… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I try not to think about legacy because it is all folly. If you study history, even recent history, you'll find many… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
When I was in college, I was debating to try my hand at show business, or to become a professor. I just… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“People in coats and ties were milling around the Talley gallery, and on the wall were the minimally rendered still lifes by Giorgio Morandi,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Writing is something I took up rather than anything I had an inclination toward. I like acting -delivering someone else's message - but writing… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“It was easy to be great. Every entertainer has a night when everything is clicking. These nights are accidental and statistical: Like lucky cards… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“And after his unparsable response, including a passage where he said he was 'blurring the boundaries between a thing and thought,' she said, 'Thank… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I have no fear, no fear at all. I wake up, and I have no fear. I go to bed without fear. Fear, fear,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
When I finally retire, I just want to go away so no one has to listen to me. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Only then does he realize what he has done to Mirabelle, how wanting a square inch of her and not all of her has… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“Lacey was just as happy alone as with company. When she was alone, she was potential; with others she was realized. Alone, she was… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
At first I had no skills in writing comedy. I didn't know what a joke was, but, as someone once told me, your emotions… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
