Steve Martin Quotes

I understand what it feels like not to like aspects of yourself. There have been times that I have felt really terrible about the way I look. I have the seed of that feeling.

We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'

When I look in the mirror, I never see a handsome chap or the person people think I am.

I don't like the sound of my voice or how I look or anything.

I'm not that interesting of a person.

You're not such a dog as you think you are.

I think I'm still, in many ways, a terribly self-conscious person. I'd probably be shooting and think, "Well, how does my hair look?"

I don't think I know a single woman who knows what she looks like.

Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I'm not what I'd like to be.

If I were somebody else looking at my character, I'd be like, "She's beautiful." I'm practicing. I'm not succeeding.

He had an opinion of himself, I think, that was too high for his own good. Or maybe it was the reverse. Maybe it was a low opinion that he kept trying to erase.

It's really hard to see yourself and to recognize that you are a human being like everybody else. You just think everybody's judging you.

I was never my favourite subject.

If I'm honest I don't think the world would miss me if I never acted again.

I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.

It's not fun to see myself in the mirror.

You compare yourself to somebody who you think is a peer, and you can totally lose the plot, and not understand that you are nothing like them in the first place, and it was never you versus anybody.

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

I consider myself a little weak.

I avoid looking in the mirror.

I don't see myself as a perfectionist.

Well, I don't think I'm good-looking... I know people who are good-looking, and I'm not good-looking.

I can't look at the mirror beyond two minutes. I don't know what to look at. What is the point of looking at yourself? You can't change your face.

What the heck did people see in me?