Steve Martin Quotes

All I can say is I did the best I could, and I didn't do well enough on many occasions.

There's no point in looking back, because there's nothing you can really do to improve the film. You can only aggravate and wish you had done stuff better.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

I feel in my own life I've made many mistakes. I've failed in many directions.

I don't want to repeat my mistakes.

To admit you want to have a comeback means you have to admit you weren't what you were supposed to be. You dropped below your own standard.

You can always say, 'I wish I had landed that triple flip better, or I wish I didn't fall.' They're not regrets, just mistakes.

My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.

I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.

30 years and 55 pictures - not more than five that were any good, or any good for me.

I felt that some of my work was OK. If I could do it over, I'd do better.

My failures have made me look at myself in a way I've never wanted to before.

My life is full of way more mistakes than successes.

I used to drive myself crazy by thinking, three days later, 'Ugh, why didn't I play it like that? Ugh, now that line makes sense to me.'

When I look back I either feel I did this mistake while shooting or writing. Eventually you try and make sure you do not repeat the same mistake with your next film. I always feel I could have made the film better.

Regretting the past does not prevent me from repeating it.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

Sometimes you get to a place in life where you feel you've made some choices, and maybe they weren't the right choices, and that it's all coming to an end.

It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets.

I never made a good movie.

In my life, I have made the occasional catastrophic choice, and it's just a case of moving on and learning from it.

I've made more mistakes than anyone I know. Sometimes I learned something, and sometimes I just find myself doing it again. It makes me mad when I wasn't smart enough to learn the first time. You just think it's going to be different the next time, and it's not, as it turns out.

I was not really as good as I should have been.

If I sold something, and it didn't perform, I'd never forgive myself.

All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.