Bad psychoanalysis would say I enjoyed pleasing people, working really hard and pleasing people, which is probably related to my father in… — 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
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
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
No matter how many times people say it - 'Oh, I'm just writing this for myself' 'Oh, I'm just doing this for… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The emotions of men, however, were of a different order. They were pesky annoyances, small dust devils at her feet. Her knack… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
As a human being on Earth, you can't imagine friendship not being important in some other solar system or some other planet,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Now let's repeat the non-conformists' oath: I promise to be different! I promise to be unique! I promise not to repeat things… — 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
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
I'm a bitter, sad, sour young man who makes a career out of hastling people with real careers. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
But Carroll's were more convoluted, and they struck me as funny in a new way: 1) Babies are illogical. 2) Nobody is… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I love technology, and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it. So there's no - you… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I try not to think about legacy because it is all folly. If you study history, even recent history, you'll find many… — 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 always think back to my high school days and realize all the people who were so popular then are nowhere now… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Well, today the Grammys is much much better than the Oscars. I think the differences in the shows are that the Grammys… — 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
There's a lot of thought in art. People get to talk about important things. There's a lot of sex, you know, in… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
L.A. is only where you live, because otherwise it's just a sprawling mass of everything, and I think if you live in… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I hope people find my movies funny and will watch them years from now. And, in terms of writing, I hope that… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way. — 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
“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
