You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I have found that-- just as in real life--imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for something to engage my imagination and take me on a little mental voyage. I just want a new… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I opened the show with this line: "I have decided to give the greatest performance of my life! Oh, wait, sorry, that's… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I was very vulnerable to criticism for many years. I could read a bad review and remember it my whole life. — 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
I've run into people in my life who were so dramatic; people who are so extreme and so frustrating to be around… — 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
I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people.… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I have heard it said that a complicated childhood can lead to a life in the arts. I tell you this story… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
If you're studying Geology, which is all facts, as soon as you get out of school you forget it all, but Philosophy… — 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… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I've run into people in my life who were so dramatic; people who are so extreme and so frustrating to be around… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Stand-up life is really hard. At one point, I got so paralyzed I could write five screenplays before I could write three… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“Bohemians. These Bohemians, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Williams, and their seven children, Biff, Tina, Sparky, Louise, Tuffy, Mickey, and Biff Number Two,… — 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… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
She looked down again and I was stymied. I sat. Oh, this was enough to make me love her, because I was… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“... because here I was having a life, even though it was a pastiche of elements of the life of someone else.” — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I never touched a gun in my life. That and that alone forever doomed me to middle management. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
College totally changed my life. It changed what I believe and what I think about everything. I majored in philosophy. — 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
I understood that as much as I had resisted the outside, as much as I had constricted my life, as much as… — 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
Relationships end, but they don't end your life. But people do often spending more time finding out about failed relationships than finding… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played alone, so I was never required… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“I'm smart enough to know that Elizabeth had no doubt seen dozens of men leap over curbs without her falling in love… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“In the deeper hours of the night I began to look at myself, to consider myself and my condition, to measure the… — 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
