What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you're never off the hook. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Working at the magic shop really gave me a sense of comedy because it was all jokes. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
It [live performance] is just very difficult. Doing an hour, hour and a half of live standup is an endurance test. You… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Comedy makes you humble. Because there are so many opportunities to miss, and strike out. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
With comedy, you never know until you put it in front of an audience. You shoot it and a year later you… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I think when I was young, let's call it high school, and even before that, I just loved comedy, and I loved… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
When I first started doing my comedy act, I just desperately needed material. So I took literally everything I knew how to… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
When I first started doing my stand-up act, I played the banjo, did comedy, magic tricks, juggled, read poetry. I stuck it… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
At first I had no skills in writing comedy. I didn't know what a joke was, but, as someone once told me,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Any type of humor can be transferred to the screen, as long as there's clarity. The audience wants to know just what… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I can juggle. I started juggling as a kid. And when I worked at Disneyland, I knew a juggler there named Christopher… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Performing music is a way to do comedy, but without the obligation to do a solid hour, hour and half of a… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to be in comedy but the path of least resistance was doing stand-up in folk music clubs where… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“What if there were no punch lines? What if there were no indicators? What if I created tension and never released it?… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
My most persistent memory of stand - up is of my mouth being in the present and my mind being in the… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Stand-up life is really hard. At one point, I got so paralyzed I could write five screenplays before I could write three… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I like what a third man brings. A kind of oblique vision, seeing something in the material that you didn't know was… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I've been writing for a long time, since the late '60s. But it hasn't been in the same form. I used to… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Deeply funny musings and adventures elevate Paul Rudnick to the highest level of American comedy writing. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I love comedy. That's what got me into the arts. I don't even know how to categorize myself anymore. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“Now that I had assigned myself an act without jokes, I gave myself a rule. Never let them know I was bombing” — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Most comedies are really hard to write, or to watch, because you kind of generally know what's coming. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
You know, a lot of people come to me and they say, "Steve, how can you be so fucking funny?" There's a… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, the… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I just wanted to be in show business. I didn't care if I was going to be an actor or a magician… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to be in show business so I took the path of least resistance. I loved comedy. But you… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“People in coats and ties were milling around the Talley gallery, and on the wall were the minimally rendered still lifes by Giorgio Morandi,… — Steve Martin Copy Share
Writing is something I took up rather than anything I had an inclination toward. I like acting -delivering someone else's message - but writing… — Steve Martin Copy Share
“It was easy to be great. Every entertainer has a night when everything is clicking. These nights are accidental and statistical: Like lucky cards… — Steve Martin Copy Share
“And after his unparsable response, including a passage where he said he was 'blurring the boundaries between a thing and thought,' she said, 'Thank… — Steve Martin Copy Share
I have no fear, no fear at all. I wake up, and I have no fear. I go to bed without fear. Fear, fear,… — Steve Martin Copy Share
When I finally retire, I just want to go away so no one has to listen to me. — Steve Martin Copy Share
Only then does he realize what he has done to Mirabelle, how wanting a square inch of her and not all of her has… — Steve Martin Copy Share
“Lacey was just as happy alone as with company. When she was alone, she was potential; with others she was realized. Alone, she was… — Steve Martin Copy Share
At first I had no skills in writing comedy. I didn't know what a joke was, but, as someone once told me, your emotions… — Steve Martin Copy Share
You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours. — Steve Martin Copy Share
The lure in art collecting and its financial rewards, not counting for a moment its aesthetic, cultural and intellectual rewards, is like the trust… — Steve Martin Copy Share
My most persistent memory of stand - up is of my mouth being in the present and my mind being in the future: the… — Steve Martin Copy Share
What I mean is that none of my talents had a - what's that great word - rubric. A singer, an actor, a dancer… — Steve Martin Copy Share
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