To me, torture would be, "I can't think what to write in the next sentence. I'm stuck." Torture would be if you… — 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
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
It's funny that some ideas start with a little "What if?" and then suddenly you're spending a million dollars to shoot the… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
…when the person beside you is making you alert and keen and the idea of being with anyone else is not imaginable… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
He never complicates a desire by overthinking it, unlike Mirabelle, who spins a cocoon around an idea until it is immobile. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
You know when you're telling these little stories? Here's a good idea: have a point. It makes it so much more interesting… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I knew I could only play Cyrano if he were Americanized. I had no intention of writing the script myself. I was… — 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 I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To… — 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
