The banjo is such a happy instrument--you can't play a sad song on the banjo - it always comes out so cheerful. — 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
I would get records by Earl Scruggs... I would tune my banjo down and I'd pick out the songs note by note.… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
After one of my plays came out, I had mixed reviews, some bad and some good. One day, it dawned on me.… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I've been writing for a long time, since the late '60s. But it hasn't been in the same form. I used to… — 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 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
In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I could never be a woman, 'cause I'd just stay home and play with my breasts all day. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I really like the animated film process. It's kind of like doing a play, because you can experiment with it, rewrite it,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I first thought maybe I'd do a banjo presentation record, where I'd play a couple of songs and get a bunch of… — 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
