It's a mystery to me the way that contemporary art galleries function. — 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
There's no better way to learn something than to learn it in front of an audience. Your terror drives you. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK; but when your hobbies get in the way of… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Performing music is a way to do comedy, but without the obligation to do a solid hour, hour and half of a… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I have thought about some kind of musical involving my music. That would be kind of interesting. I have thought of it… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Theories, for me, are just about freeing your mind. It doesn't mean the theory is going to work like a scientific theory… — 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 cringe at backstory. Because it never quite explains or gets into some psychological thing that is never quite right and never… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
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
If you saw her in these moments, you might think she was collecting her thoughts in order to go forward. But I… — 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
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
In a strange way, I don't have a job, so I have a lot of time on my hands. When I do… — 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
It's very hard sometimes when you can't crack something or can't solve something and you keep trying and trying and you know… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in the way you use it.… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The streets of L.A. undulate over short hills as though a finger is poking the landscape from underneath ... laid over this… — 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
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
When you're touring and if you go to a party, there's automatically a celebrity-audience distance. It follows you around, especially when you're… — 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 loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people.… — 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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
When I finally retire, I just want to go away so no one has to listen to me. — Steve Martin Copy Share
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
“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
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
You cannot make your opportunities concur with the opportunities of people whose incomes are ten times greater than yours. — Steve Martin Copy Share
The lure in art collecting and its financial rewards, not counting for a moment its aesthetic, cultural and intellectual rewards, is like the trust… — Steve Martin Copy Share
My most persistent memory of stand - up is of my mouth being in the present and my mind being in the future: the… — Steve Martin Copy Share
What I mean is that none of my talents had a - what's that great word - rubric. A singer, an actor, a dancer… — Steve Martin Copy Share
