Quote

Always do business as if the person you're doing business with is trying to screw you, because he probably is. And if he's not, you can be pleasantly surprised.

Steve Martin

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Steve Martin
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: August 14
Actor
Art Collector
Banjoist
Comedian
Film Actor
Film Producer
Musician
Performing Artist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Street Artist
Waco
Texas
Steve Glenn Martin
Stephen Glenn Martin
Screws
Surprised
Probably
Business
Persons
Person
Pleasantly
Trying
Always
Screw

More quotes by Steve Martin

Image
...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.
Steve Martin
Image
I think communication is so firsbern.
Steve Martin
Image
I was raised with Laurel and Hardy and I Love Lucy and Jerry Lewis, and I just loved it. And I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits. You know, it's the Andy Kaufman thing or the Marty Short thing where you're performing in your bedroom for yourself.
Steve Martin
Image
I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.
Steve Martin
Image
Lord loves a workin' man don't trust whitey
Steve Martin
Image
Relationships end, but they don't end your life.
Steve Martin
Image
You know that look that women get when they want to have sex? Me neither.
Steve Martin
Image
As a school board we felt it's an unfair expense to families. The lawsuit has a certain logic to it - if you have free public education, you can't put these things on top of it. It defeats the purpose.
Steve Martin
Image
In talking to girls I could never remember the right sequence of things to say. I'd meet a girl and say, Hi, was it good for you too? If a girl spent the night, I'd wake up in the morning and then try to get her drunk.
Steve Martin
Image
So she viewed time spent in the land of the normal as an investigation into the world of marriage-worthy men, even if she was unsure about her own interest in marriage. There must be one solid citizen who also had a spark of life, a sense of humor and adventure.
Steve Martin
Image
What means the most to me changes through the years. There was a time when movies meant the most. But when I'm concentrating on a project, that's what means the most to me.
Steve Martin
Image
I used to think a wedding was a simple affair. Boy and girl meet, they fall in love, he buys a ring, she buys a dress, they say I do. I was wrong. That's getting married. A wedding is an entirely different proposition.
Steve Martin
Image
The Matisse seemed to respond to the decreasing light by increasing its own wattage. Every object in the room was drained of color, but the Matisse stood firm in the de-escalating illumination, its beauty turning functionality inside out, making itself a more practical and useful presence than anything else in sight.
Steve Martin
Image
I was deeply unhappy, but I didn't know it because I was so happy all the time.
Steve Martin
Image
Writing is extremely personal, and that's the joy of it for me.
Steve Martin
Image
My problem is that I don't get the same exhiliration from success as I get depression from failure.
Steve Martin
Image
You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.
Steve Martin
Image
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...
Steve Martin
Image
I didn't worry if a bit got no response, as long as I believed it had enough response to linger.
Steve Martin
Image
I will do anything to look like him - except, of course, exercise or eat right.
Steve Martin