Steve Martin Quotes

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.

To me that's what Jobs was about. He said at the end of the movie, 'When you realize that the world was created by people no smarter than you, your life will change.' That, to me, is a message for right now and people figuring out what they're going to do with themselves.

Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration.

Write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

Everybody needs some inspiration, Everybody needs some motivation, mix it up with some imagination, and use your natural gifts.

Rise up and become the person you were meant to be.

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.

What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.

One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!

A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential; a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.

To create something you must be something.

I don't want to be someone's reason to hate their life. I want to be someone's reason to seek something more in their life.

I have learned so much about myself. I have re-discovered that little boy who had the hunger to create, which I think I had lost.

Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?

I want to inspire, and be inspired.

What's interesting is with a lot of the work I do through my foundation, the 'Manifest Your Destiny' foundation, we really encourage people, and we attempt to empower, uplift and inspire people to live out their dreams, live out their destiny.

I think of myself as a catalyst of action and a messenger of hope, turning people onto themselves and turning people onto their dreams.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.

I don't know if I'm so much fueled by trying to one-up myself so much as passionate about coming up with new and greater challenges. I don't see it as a contest, but as a natural progression.

The National Youth Theatre did one very simple but incredible thing for me: it made me realise I had choices.

So there was a fire inside me. And that fire inside you, it can be turned into a negative form or a positive form. And I gradually realised that I had this fire and that it had to be used in a positive way.

The true success is the person who invented himself.

I was a loser, a bad kid, I wasn't really into anything, and then someone gave me a camera and I found that this was the thing I wanted to do.