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.”

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”

“Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.”

“I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.”

“First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.”

“The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.”

“Boy, those French. They have a different word for everything.”

“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 he'll have no shoes.”

“I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.”

“Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.”

“What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.”

“I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink.”

“Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.”

“Be so good they can't ignore you.”

“Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't chaos, it's oblivion.”

“I will do anything for a laugh. I'm not proud, but I'm not tired either.”