The lure in art collecting and its financial rewards, not counting for a moment its aesthetic, cultural and intellectual rewards, is like… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
To me, torture would be, "I can't think what to write in the next sentence. I'm stuck." Torture would be if you… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I used to think a wedding was a simple affair. Boy and girl meet, they fall in love, he buys a ring,… — 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
I'm trying to think of other ones. Oh, yeah, I'd say - somebody would buy something and we'd say, and because you… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I think films are about having a good time, so I don't know that there's a message. The message of a film… — 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
You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Some nights, alone, he thinks of her, and some nights, alone, she thinks of him. Some night these thoughts, separated by miles… — 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
I was always very shy but as I get older I think, What am I being shy for? You just grow weary… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
It's spooky to look at yourself, because you are never quite what you think you are. And you are never as good… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
She didn't even finish her last sentence; it just trailed off. I think the subject had changed in her head while her… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Kids like my act because I'm wearing nose glasses. Adults like my act because there's a guy who thinks putting on nose… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
There is something going on now in Mexico that I happen to think is cruelty to animals. What I'm talking about, of… — 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
I don't think comic timing is the same as music timing, but I definitely find that I've learned from just writing in… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Stand-up life is really hard. At one point, I got so paralyzed I could write five screenplays before I could write three… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
When I die, now don't think that I'm a nut, don't want no fancy funeral, just one like old King Tut. — 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 actually learned about sex watching neighborhood dogs. And it was good. Go ahead and laugh. I think the most important thing… — 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
“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
