The real joy is in constructing a sentence. But I see myself as an actor first because writing is what you do… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I realized that comedians of the day were operating on jokes and punch lines. The moment you say the punch line, 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
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 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 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
When I was in college, I was debating to try my hand at show business, or to become a professor. I just… — 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
