Steve Martin

I couldn't see his face, because the light came in from behind him and he was in shadow, and he said, "I…

— Steve Martin

“... because here I was having a life, even though it was a pastiche of elements of the life of someone else.”

— Steve Martin

It's like painting the same blank canvas over and over and over and over and over. Once the concept is known, you…

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...it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest questionable shift in tone at the end of…

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The thing about the banjo is, when you first hear it, it strikes many people as 'What's that?' There's something very compelling…

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You know, a lot of people come to me and they say, "Steve, how can you be so fucking funny?" There's a…

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“These experiences have caused him to think very hard about what he is doing and where he is going. And the result…

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Acting keeps me alert to people, and life. I don't know, there's something about going to work early in the morning, and…

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A friend of mine once asked how to make it in show business and I said "Be so good that they can't…

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I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never…

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There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in…

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I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations…

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I was raised with 'Laurel and Hardy' and 'I Love Lucy' and Jerry Lewis, and I just loved it. And I had…

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I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is…

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The overhead lights reflect in the glass countertop and mingle in the gray and black of the gloves, resulting in a mother-of-pearl…

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Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it.…

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I feel good about being able to take bluegrass on to television like 'Letterman' and 'The View,' and I've heard nice things…

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“But my mother was aglow. She had a continuing fascination with celebrities, and now she had one of her own. She was…

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The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do…

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“I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a by-product. The course was more plodding than heroic: I did…

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I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years…

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I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn, the Punch Brothers, and Marc Johnson, the great clawhammer player. I…

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I think probably the most difficult challenge was just the climb and rise in show business because I went through my entire…

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I loved magic, and so I would practice my magic tricks in front of a mirror for hours and hours and hours…

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I loved doing 'Pennies from Heaven.' Because you have to understand that I'd been doing comedy for 15 to 20 years, and…

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“The dictionary is a perfect example of overalphabetization, with its harsh rules and every little word neatly in place. It almost makes…

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It's very hard sometimes when you can't crack something or can't solve something and you keep trying and trying and you know…

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I studied with the Maharishi for many years, and really didn't learn that much. But one thing that he taught me, I'll…

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“And after his unparsable response, including a passage where he said he was 'blurring the boundaries between a thing and thought,' she…

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“My plan was to walk by on my side of the street and not look over her way. This, I felt, was…

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I hope people find my movies funny and will watch them years from now. And, in terms of writing, I hope that…

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I try not to think about legacy because it is all ­folly. If you study history, even recent history, you'll find many…

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What means the most to me changes through the years. There was a time when movies meant the most. But when I'm…

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I was reading an article in the 'New York Times;' it talked about being in the zone, and being in the zone…

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“There is nothing too mysterious about Ray Porter, at least not in the usual sense of the word. He is single, he…

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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…

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The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer. And the joy of writing, when you're writing from…

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[her] mind blackens. The blackness is not a thought, but if it could be pressed into a thought, if a chemical from…

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I ignored my stand-up career for twenty-five years, but now, having finished this memoir, I view this time with surprising warmth. One…

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“If you occasionally wonder how I know about some of the events I describe in this book, I don't. I have found…

— Steve Martin