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
A friend of mine once asked how to make it in show business and I said "Be so good that they can't… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I just wanted to be in show business. I didn't care if I was going to be an actor or a magician… — 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
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
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
They want me on the television shows now because I did so well on Celebrity Assholes. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I had loved magic tricks from the time I was six or seven. I bought books on magic. I did magic acts… — 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
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
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
I did a lot of things when I first started out. In order to be in show business, I juggled, I did… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I think probably the most difficult challenge was just the climb and rise in show business because I went through my entire… — 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
