I was deeply unhappy, but I didn't know it because I was so happy all the time. — 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
Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
These days it's hard to look at a poodle without thinking what a good meal he would make. — 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
It was so sweet backstage, you should have seen it - The Teamsters were helping Michael Moore into the trunk of his… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Lots of women are getting involved. They're not satisfied just being passengers anymore. — 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
Working at the magic shop really gave me a sense of comedy because it was all jokes. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile… — 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
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
So she viewed time spent in the land of the normal as an investigation into the world of marriage-worthy men, even if… — 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
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
“Let's suppose that you want to say, "I am a jerk." IN the 18th century, you would have to go around person… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
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… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
It's so hard to believe in anything anymore, you know what I mean? It's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously,… — 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
I handed in a script last year and the studio didn't change one word. The word they didn't change was on page 87. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I believe you should place a woman on a pedestal: high enough so you can look up her dress. — 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 believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... an Arctic region covered with ice. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
A remarkable memoir that's packed with anecdotes, advice and humor, all while maintaining a high level of dignity and self-awareness. — 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
Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I'm a bitter, sad, sour young man who makes a career out of hastling people with real careers. — 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
