M.C. Steve Quotes

Underneath all the skin, we're all the same.

The worst professional advice I've received. "If you were the last person on earth, I would never choose you to be a movie star."

I'm somebody who's really contributed to culture. Popular culture.

I'm not going to say, I'm an actor and I'm changing the world. Who cares?

I love the fame and the money and the power. You have to keep working to have that.

I've only had good experiences with actors. Starring next to them and directing them, for the most part they're all inspiring, special people.

Directing is a tremendous art.

No matter how bad your life gets, you can always turn it around.

I turned down Short Circuit 2 too and I now wish I hadn't. Sequels are a lot of fun and you get to hang out with all your friends.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.

Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.

It's funny, when people talk about the 70s I can tell you the year of every album but when it comes to the later efforts I can't remember the exact years, it's funny isn't it?

We got a Chinese Elvis painted by Norman Rockwell.

The greatest puzzle in the world, young man, the greatest challenge a man can face, a solving the riddle of a women's heart.

I don't let nobody sign for my money. Me and my wife write our own checks. So, if there's some money missing, we know how it got missing.

The mentoring program [of the Steve Harvey foundation] is to teach young boys the principles of manhood.

I tell people I'm a stand-up comedian two hours a week. The rest of the time, I'm somebody's husband, I'm somebody's father. I'm a man. I take great pride in that.

I don't want to be 60 years old standing on stage telling some jokes. I want my life to mean something.

I'm a old hoodlum, so I will jump on you if I have to.

The hip hop community is not at fault here - I'm definitely not blaming them. But, that can't be the only view of manhood for our young men.

Our only teachers and role models for our young men cannot be, you know, videos, and, the hip hop community.

The problem in our community is not the women - I mean, they've done all they can do.

You can't ask the women to do anymore. It's time for us as Black men to step up and be what we're supposed to be.

I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me to give back.

I'm not a movie star and I know that.

I'm not a good mother at all.

I never saw myself not being a stand-up. That was my plan.

I tell jokes for a check; I'm on TV for a check.

Hip-hop is a beautiful thing. I think that the music genre itself has created more millionaires than any other music genre before it, especially in our community.

The Lord saved my soul.

There's a lot more to me than just funny.

The competitors, like Commodore and Kaypro, were all doing speeds and feeds, whereas Steve always wanted things like “What is the significance in the world? How might this change things?

If somebody has done it before, that is enough reason to knock an idea off the table

Failure is but the longer road to triumph.

On big routes in big mountains, speed equals safety.

Many would argue that alpinism is art, not sport.

We climbers have much to learn from the training done in conventional sports.

Alpinism places unique demands on its practitioners.

Second best is not good enough really. Although if someone turned around now and said 'you will be promoted, but you will come in second' then I would take it.

The TV show. Any time you're playing, this is the gift, you get to play someone else. You get to be someone who you're not.

Modern man creates fancy cars while losing the sacredness of his feet and lungs.

No champion has ever lifted a trophy that was not already being held inside.

A real yogin...does not see the difference between a lump of dirt and a lump of gold

In this country tonight, PBS shows one of the most talked about tributes of the year.

I do know that a law professor there [in Columbia University] published an article calling me a white supremacist.

India may be overtaking China as the world's most polluted country. Even now, which country is worse depends on the day.

President-elect Trump has said he would like to improve relations with Russia. His choice for defense secretary views Russia as America's number one threat.

Democrats have simply lost the country.

[Democrats] have lost the capacity to speak to the vast middle of America, an America that is, in large part, white, very religious and not highly educated.