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
I knew I wanted to be in show business so I took the path of least resistance. I loved comedy. But 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
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
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
You know, a lot of people come to me and they say, "Steve, how can you be so fucking funny?" There's a… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
You have to get comfortable [with your work], you really have to know what you're doing, and it has to be almost… — 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
Whether I'm involved in creating something or not, it's a personal issue of do I respect it. But you can only know… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
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… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I'm not Vegas. Places I play usually cost like $3 to get in, you know, and people are going: Gee, I've got… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I just respected comedians whether they were or they weren't, from, you know, new or old. — 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
You know, you're really nobody in L.A. unless you live in a house with a really big door — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
It eventually appeared to be me, cinematically. When I was writing it I was actually an author, you know, writing a book.… — 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
The teen years are extremely serious and everything matters and every insult really hurts. I know there are cliques and bullying. And… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
People come up to me and say "Steve, what is film editing?" And I say "How should I know? You're the director. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I was deeply unhappy, but I didn't know it because I was so happy all the time. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Acting keeps me alert to people, and life. I don't know, there's something about going to work early in the morning, and… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I do think that animated films have the ability to touch you someplace. There is something about live action movies that is… — 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
I like what a third man brings. A kind of oblique vision, seeing something in the material that you didn't know was… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never… — 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
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