Writing is something I took up rather than anything I had an inclination toward. I like acting -delivering someone else's message -… — 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,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
What I mean is that none of my talents had a - what's that great word - rubric. A singer, an actor,… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I take editing seriously. It's a joy to edit. I always hand a manuscript to several editors and can't wait to get… — 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 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
Most comedies are really hard to write, or to watch, because you kind of generally know what's coming. — 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
Yeah, well, we're all writers, aren't we? He's a writer that hasn't been published, and I'm a writer who hasn't written anything. — 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 my mother was aglow. She had a continuing fascination with celebrities, and now she had one of her own. She was… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
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 thought 'Borat' was a breakthrough comedy, because it was really funny. It wasn't some studio-produced script with 14 writers. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The conscious mind is the editor, and the subconscious mind is the writer. And the joy of writing, when you're writing from… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Deeply funny musings and adventures elevate Paul Rudnick to the highest level of American comedy writing. — 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 don't think anyone is ever writing so that you can throw it away. You're always writing it to be something. Later,… — 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
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
It eventually appeared to be me, cinematically. When I was writing it I was actually an author, you know, writing a book.… — 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
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
Writer's block is a fancy term made up by whiners so they can have an excuse to drink alcohol. — 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
