Steve Martin Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

2. Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.

3. Boy, those French! They have a different word for everything.

4. Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

5. I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.

6. I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.

7. I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.

8. I love money. I love everything about it. I bought some pretty good stuff. Got me a $300 pair of socks. Got a fur sink. An electric dog polisher. A gasoline powered turtleneck sweater. And, of course, I bought some dumb stuff, too.

9. I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.

10. I understood that as much as I had resisted the outside, as much as I had constricted my life, as much as I had closed and narrowed the channels into me, there were still many takers for the quiet heart. The Pleasure of My Company

11. It's so hard to believe in anything anymore. I mean, it's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously, because it seems so mythological, it seems so arbitrary...but, on the other hand, science is just pure empiricism, and by virtue of its method, it excludes metaphysics. I guess I wouldn't believe in anything anymore if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch.

12. she is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses. An Object of Beauty

13. Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.

14. Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent. Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

15. Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol.

16. It's so hard to believe in anything anymore. I mean, it's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously, because it seems so mythological, it seems so arbitrary...but, on the other hand, science is just pure empiricism, and by virtue of its method, it excludes metaphysics. I guess I wouldn't believe in anything anymore if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch.

17. Life exists so the Universe can experience itself.