Steve Martin Quotes

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

Sometimes it takes ten seconds to see some humor in your dilemmas, sometimes ten years.

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.

If I'm going for advice for anything in my life, I go straight to my father because he has the answers.

My mother always told me not to handle a buffalo by its tail, but always catch it by its horns. And I have used that lesson in everything in my life, including the Railways.

Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.

Everyone has their own different life experiences which make them who they are. No two people's life experiences are the same. And mine are just unique to me.

One of my favorite movies of all time is 'It's A Wonderful Life,' which is a pretty interesting choice for a seasonal Christmas favorite, because it's about a guy who wants to commit suicide and is presented with reasons not to.

My music is about the journey, about love and the human experience.

I am so enriched because so much has happened in my life. The way I can express myself is because of the life I have led. It's only when you experience life can you emote it.

If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction.

I always say that in any roomful of people, I could hive a novel out of any one person's family or life story.

I find the education I got from living in Derby and being streetwise and knowing the people that I know, the lessons that I had to learn growing up, have set me in good stead for this kind of working life.

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.

Myths are wonderful tools that we've had, oh, for eons now that help us navigate the situations we find ourselves in.

We spend so much of our lives not feeling but doing, doing, doing, and movies remind us that we are human. That life is all the things we see, and yet there is beauty there. There's a celebration of life and all of its intricacies. Movies are magnificent.

The movies and TV shows I like to watch tend to put their characters in situations where they have to dig deeper.

I'm not sure anyone can understand a whole life, even their own.

I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?

We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

Everybody has a public life, and they have their own private life. Everybody has their secrets. Everybody has their own private, you know, agonies as well as joys. And that's what great drama, whether it's the movies or the theater, that's what it shows.

Life is half spent before we know what it is.