You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
There is one thing I would break up over, and that is if she caught me with another woman. I wont stand… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I've heard lots of people lie to themselves but they never fool anyone. — 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
Rebelliousness really is the province of young people-that kind of iconoclasm. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them out on the air. — 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
Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it.… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I can understand the drug thing. So they feel that it's more important to take the drugs than to do a good… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Movies always are open to being remade because times change so much, and the tempo of movies changes. I think of it… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
There are some people that will not pick up a phone and call you, but if you knock on a door and… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The self-prepared dinner is a great time killer for lonely people and as much time should be spent on it as possible. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Be undeniably good. When people ask me how do you make it in show business or whatever, what I always tell them… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
When people ask me, ‘how do you make it in show business,’ or whatever, what I always tell them — and nobody… — 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
I knew I wanted to be in comedy but the path of least resistance was doing stand-up in folk music clubs where… — 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
Acting has helped me understand people, not only because you are acting as a character, but also because you are watching other… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
If he thinks he would harm Mirabelle, he would back away. But he does not yet understand when and how people are… — 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've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations… — 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
“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
