The banjo is truly an American instrument, and it captures something about our past. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I don't really manage my time. I really just wait until I'm inspired to do something. And when I'm inspired to do… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
There's a point when you're famous and it's unbearable to go out because you're too famous. And there's a moment when you're… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
You know, there's a moment when you're famous when it's unbearable to go out because you're too famous. And then there's a… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The self-prepared dinner is a great time killer for lonely people and as much time should be spent on it as possible. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Awards mean nothing to comedians. What matters is the audience, how you're doing - artistically, for the most part - at that… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I had loved magic tricks from the time I was six or seven. I bought books on magic. I did magic acts… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I think films are about having a good time, so I don't know that there's a message. The message of a film… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Some nights, alone, he thinks of her, and some nights, alone, she thinks of him. Some night these thoughts, separated by miles… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
No matter how many times people say it - 'Oh, I'm just writing this for myself' 'Oh, I'm just doing this for… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
For a while, Mirabelle believes there will be a moment when he will cave in and let himself love her, but eventually… — 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
It is the perfect wrong time for Jeremy to do to Mirabelle what she had done to him - call him up… — 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
The lure in art collecting and its financial rewards, not counting for a moment its aesthetic, cultural and intellectual rewards, is like… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
If you saw her in these moments, you might think she was collecting her thoughts in order to go forward. But I… — 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
“I could dream it forever and still not do it, but when the time comes for it to be done, God, I… — 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
Movies always are open to being remade because times change so much, and the tempo of movies changes. I think of it… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“It was easy to be great. Every entertainer has a night when everything is clicking. These nights are accidental and statistical: Like… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone is ever writing so that you can throw it away. You're always writing it to be something. Later,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
In a strange way, I don't have a job, so I have a lot of time on my hands. When I do… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
What means the most to me changes through the years. There was a time when movies meant the most. But when I'm… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I was reading an article in the 'New York Times;' it talked about being in the zone, and being in the zone… — 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
