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
Romance takes place when you first fall in love. It stirs all emotions and you can manipulate and be manipulated. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Your only guidepost is your own instinct and judicious editing. In my stand-up act I learned that in the first 10 minutes… — 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
It's horrible for someone to listen to someone learning any instrument - when I was first learning the banjo, I used to… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Mirabelle is not affected by a man’s failures to approach her, as her own self-depreciating attitude never allows the idea that he… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Mirabelle is attractive; it's just that she is never the first or second girl chosen. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
He gave her his phone number, in a peculiar reversal of dating procedure. She might have considered kissing him, even after the… — 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
I'm 48. For a while after 'The Jerk' (movie) I had a feeling of failure. I was a little scared. First people… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I never had a movie that I wanted to do turned down in my whole life. I always write the script first… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The Apple Pie Hubbub was a significant novel for me, because that's when I first started using verbs. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The thing about the banjo is when you first hear it, it strikes many people as what's that? There's something very compelling… — 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 did a lot of things when I first started out. In order to be in show business, I juggled, I did… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I didn't come from a wealthy family. I had no money. Maybe it goes back to naivete which is your greatest asset… — 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
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
When I finally retire, I just want to go away so no one has to listen to me. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
