A day without sunshine is like... night.
--Steve Martin
Always make room for the unexpected in yourself.
--Steve Martin
Boy, those French! They have a different word for everything.
--Steve Martin
Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
--Steve Martin
Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naïveté, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do.
--Steve Martin
How many people have never raised their hand before?
--Steve Martin
I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
--Steve Martin
I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.
--Steve Martin
I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
--Steve Martin
I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.
--Steve Martin
I would assign every lie a color: yellow when they were innocent, pale blue when they sailed over you like the sky, red because I knew they drew blood. And then there was the black lie. That's the worst of all. A black lie was when I told you the truth.
--Steve Martin
I've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone.
--Steve Martin
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.
--Steve Martin
It's so hard to believe in anything anymore. I mean, it's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously, because it seems so mythological, it seems so arbitrary... but, on the other hand, science is just pure empiricism, and by virtue of its method, it excludes metaphysics. I guess I wouldn't believe in anything anymore if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch.
--Steve Martin
She had destroyed whatever was between us by making a profound gaffe: She met me.
--Steve Martin
Some people have a way with words, and other people... not have way, I guess.
--Steve Martin
Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
--Steve Martin
Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.
--Steve Martin
The conscious mind is the editor, the subconscious mind is the writer.
--Steve Martin
Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.
--Steve Martin
You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it.
--Steve Martin
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