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
Art as an aesthetic principle was supported by thousands of years of discernment and psychic rewards, but art as a commodity was… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I was very vulnerable to criticism for many years. I could read a bad review and remember it my whole life. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
What means the most to me changes through the years. There was a time when movies meant the most. But when I'm… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
With comedy, you never know until you put it in front of an audience. You shoot it and a year later you… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Your only guidepost is your own instinct and judicious editing. In my stand-up act I learned that in the first 10 minutes… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Halle Berry is here, whose win last year broke down barriers for unbelievably hot women. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Whether I'm involved in creating something or not, it's a personal issue of do I respect it. But you can only know… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I studied with the Maharishi for many years, and really didn't learn that much. But one thing that he taught me, I'll… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years… — 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
The teen years are extremely serious and everything matters and every insult really hurts. I know there are cliques and bullying. And… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I ignored my stand-up career for twenty-five years, but now, having finished this memoir, I view this time with surprising warmth. One… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I loved doing 'Pennies from Heaven.' Because you have to understand that I'd been doing comedy for 15 to 20 years, and… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I hope people find my movies funny and will watch them years from now. And, in terms of writing, I hope that… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Communication has changed so rapidly in the last 20 years, it's almost impossible to predict what might occur even in the next… — 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
